First Lady Michelle Obama exhorted campaign donors to defend Obamacare by telling them, among other things, that the bill is especially important for “kids” who can’t find jobs when they graduate from college.
“And when our kids get older and they graduate from school, we all know how hard it is for them to find jobs, let alone jobs with insurance,” Mrs. Obama said at a fundraiser in Los Angeles. “And that’s why, as part of health reform, kids can now stay on their parents’ insurance until they’re 26 years old.”
“So will we take that insurance away from our kids?” she asked. She also affirmed the need to “to stand up to those insurance companies” who don’t want to cover preexisting conditions. The Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney, however, has observed that insurance companies spent $26 million on lobbying in 2009, when the Obamacare law was being written, and they have praised the bill as “important and historic.”
