Obama –MAMA!- Care

I tried to write the title of this post like a shout out to Moms because I recently read that in order to make the president’s health care law a success healthy young people need to be signed up and one strategy being used is a call out to the one that we all recognize knows best, Mom. Basically there is a campaign to encourage Moms to get their loved ones signed up beginning Oct.1 (when sign ups begin), especially young men that might consider forgoing the insurance for just paying the $95 fine. The problem here is that young men are cheap to insure and critical to keeping the law on a solid financial footing. So those who want to see the law succeed are working to persuade people (young healthy people especially) to get insurance. There is still an abundance of skepticism over whether or not the insurance will be affordable but in 2012, 41% of 19-25 year olds were uninsured and that is a really big group. The plan is to initially sign up 2.7 million young adults for coverage and Moms will be the deciding factor for many of them.

I have some uninsured grandchildren and some grandchildren that found themselves needing emergency care during lapses in coverage due to their parents changing jobs and/or marital status. The kids were the ones most negatively impacted by Murphy’s Law rather than having the safety net of consistency in medical care that health insurance provides. These grand kids aren't in the targeted age group yet but I hope their Moms and Dads are listening.