Headline in a non-22nd Amendment world: “Bill Clinton makes a play for the youth vote.”
The former president told OZY.com that President Obama should ‘honor the commitment’ he made to allowing Americans to keep their health insurance under Obamacare, even if it takes a change to the law. One of the primary reasons: the guarantee duped young Americans.
“Young people, mostly — but not all young — who are in the individual market whose incomes are above 400 percent of the poverty level, they were the ones who heard the promise that you like what you got you can keep it,” Clinton said.
He gave an example of a young father he met whose policy was cancelled, and it cost the person twice as much to obtain a plan with the same coverage. While the father’s co-pays and deductibles have improved, the father fears he’s paying extra for nothing because of his life circumstances.
“So he said, ‘In the years when I use health care, I might actually save money,'” Clinton relayed. “But he said, ‘You know, we’re all young and we’re all healthy.'”
Clinton made his comments in the context of his stance that the nation is better off with Obamacare than without it, but the law has significant problems.
Watch the full interview clip below.
