Young adults Don't Welcome Health Insurance Mandates

Kaiser Health News reports that young adults do not like that the new health bills will require them to have insurance. Many young adults are healthy and feel they don't need health insurance. So why should they pay for it?

They should pay for it for the greater society as a whole. "Young adults are the balance to the new rule, which also forces those least likely to need medical care to participate in a health plan in order to keep prices from inflating" (Rodewald, 11/11).

If everyone has insurance, it helps lower costs of the overall insurance pool. Also it will help ER units in hospitals from overcrowding because everyone will (in theory) have their own doctor to go to for such ailments as the flu. Also preventative services will increase if everyone has insurance.

But what if they can't afford it? Thats what the insurance reform is suppose to fix, but more on that in another post.

KHN reported their summary from a Northwestern paper from Oshkosh, WI