Hope it backfires horribly for them.

these people.

"Hey kids, having health-insurance is a sign of oppression, like bras are a sign of the oppression of womenkind! Here's a symbolic card you can burn to vent your anger over that evil government-overreach. You dig my message, homie?"

It's just weird how much they hate people having the means to care for themselves. I was always raised to believe that having some kind of health insurance coverage for myself (and my family) was the RESPONSIBLE thing to do because EVERYBODY occasionally gets sick and needs to go visit the doctor and maybe even have a test run to make sure that that symptom you're having isn't a sign of something serious. Of course, coverage wasn't quite expensive and didn't suck as much at one time but hopefully that problem is on the way to being fixed thanks to Obamacare.

premiums if they wait to get coverage. The problem now is that they can wait until they are older and/or have an illness to get coverage. If that's the case, why not risk it? If they don't join now, their premiums should be higher later to make up for the additional risk. That's how insurance works.
I've read that the key to getting the younger generation to join is to get their moms involved. I think it's crucial too for those of us who have experiences to share do so.

no doubt this Freedomworks has money stacked away in the Cayman Islands?

With a sizable republican presence. The other day, I overheard a couple of older, younger (than me) students (in the Starbucks waiting for coffee) discussing their opposition to being FORCED to purchase health insurance. They were livid and very animated.

Then, one of the more animated students got a call … she listened for a bit, said “OK, thanks.” She, then, looked in her purse said: {wait for it} “Hey guys … can we stop at my room? My prescription is ready and I forgot my insurance card.”

I'm a young person who they'd be targeting, only 27 years old, and I'd hate to imagine how deep in debt I'd be if I didn't have health insurance.

About three years ago I started to get some stomach problems, at first my stomach was unable to handle spicy foods and I'd just vomit it up. Then as a few months went by, I started vomiting up pretty much everything in my stomach once a day. In hindsight I should have gone to see a GI doctor months earlier. I got an appointment at the hospital for the GI doctor to look in my stomach and see what was wrong, and was quickly admitted to the hospital from there when they found total blockage from my stomach to my intestine. At that point I was so weak I could barely even stand up anymore.

It turns out the cause of my problem was peptic ulcers that almost completely blocked the path from my stomach to the intestine, so almost nothing except a bit of liquid could get through.

I ended up having to stay in the hospital for about a month, and was given way too bags of fluids/nutrients/etc to even count, because I wasn't allowed to eat or drink anything for most of that time except the last day or two. I also needed surgery to fix the problem, after their nonsurgical methods failed the first two weeks. They created another opening from another part of my intestine to my stomach, one unobstructed by peptic ulcers.

If I didn't have health insurance, then I'm sure each of those bags of IV fluids would have cost me at least $200 each on average, though some I know for a fact they charge over $500 without insurance, and the surgery itself would have probably cost me over $100,000. And then the other miscellaneous hospital expenses, like giving me a bed, and all the other tests and X Rays they performed on me were also quite expensive.

So I estimate I'd probably have a bill then over $250,000, which would be WAY more then my entire life savings, and WAY more then I've had taken out of my paycheck for the last 5 years for health insurance (a bit under $9,000).

What is the problem with that since people can't be denied based on pre-existing conditions?