Letter: Health Care for the Young

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To the Editor:

Re "The Next Big Challenge for Obama's Health Care Law: Carrying It Out" (news article, April 30):

As an insurance broker for the last 40 years, I am very familiar with the difficulty of getting young people to buy health insurance. For the most part, they consider themselves immortal. In addition, they tend to be short of money to pay premiums.

Your article reports that White House officials said "this group's participation in health insurance marketplaces is vital to their success because it will offset the cost of less healthy customers." If this is true, the success of the new health care law is in serious jeopardy.

How many young people today will be willing to pay an insurance premium costing thousands of dollars, as opposed to a modest fine? In my experience, very few.

GERARD J. CASSEDY Jr.
Ponte Vedra, Fla., April 30, 2013

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