Take a look around the world – see all the issues going on?  A couple natural disasters, a potentially nuclear-armed Iran, Russia’s expanding regional influence, the economic troubles in Greece and elsewhere, etc.  All the while, what is our president doing?  Campaigning.  Still.  As he pointed out in the healthcare summit a week or so ago: “the election is over”.  He is out peddling the healthcare reform legislation instead of running this country.

In a ticket-only admission speech at Arcadia College (amazingly a number of uniformed SEIU members were in attendance…think about that for a minute), the President quipped:

If you’re a young adult, which many of you are, you’ll be able to stay on your parents’ insurance policy until you’re 26 years old.

What is this teaching these kids?  That they can be lazy and unemployed until 26 because Obama is going to force insurance companies to cover dependents.  Large cheering ensued.  Wooo, more binge drinking for us.  Dude, my parent’s have an X-box in the basement.  Sweet, I’m so there.  Hey, Mr. President, ever wonder what that does to healthcare costs?  No?  It drives it up – the very thing we’re trying to control, dummy.  Yes, parents will (or should) take care of their kids and in some cases it might make sense for an employed child out of college to still be a dependent and possibly on their parents’ insurance plan.  However, part of the misguided number crunching that gets overlooked and unreported is that a large number of young adults (and many of you are) make a conscious decision to not get insurance in order to allocate that portion of their income elsewhere – maybe into savings…maybe into more binge drinking and X-box games.  This represents lower funds into the insurances system and doesn’t provide for the redistribution that occurs where, generally, healthy, younger insurees are funding payouts to the less healthy or older insurees.  So now, Obama wants the parents to pay more so this can continue.

Much like he’s dodging more pressing international issues, he’s avoiding the real issues with healthcare reform – like tort reform.

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