The ACA and Millennials: The kids are NOT all right

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Poll shows young people skeptical of ObamaCare, amid Obama outreach​

As the president hosts a White House youth summit, a new poll from his alma mater shows a majority of young people aren't interested in signing up for his signature health care plan.

The Harvard "Millennials" poll found only 22 percent of young Americans -- defined in the survey as between 18 and 29 years old -- plan to sign up for ObamaCare. Even more troubling for the administration, fewer than a third -- only 29 percent -- of people who currently do not have health insurance plan to enroll.

"Actuarially, the [Affordable Care Act] depends upon these young Americans signing up," Trey Greyson, director of Harvard's Institute Of Politics, said. "Our survey shows that the administration has a lot of work to do to get them on board."

Indeed, the Affordable Care Act relies on a large pool of young, healthy enrollees to pay for older, sicker Americans. Without their premium support, the entire system is at risk of collapse.

And as Charles Krauthammer told Bill O'Reilly last night, the Great Pretender lives in a different world than the rest of us:

Krauthammer: Obama thinks he can repeal reality with rhetoric​

It's also a rhetorical world, theory and rhetoric. It's like King Canute being urged by his worshipful acolytes to tell the tides to go backwards and at least Canute had the self-consciousness to tell them that can't be done. Obama thinks that he can repeal reality with rhetoric.

I mean, after all, the one thing he can really do well is campaign. That's undeniable. He is one of the great campaigners in American history. He twice won the presidency. His trouble is he has trouble governing. And here he is faced with a management problem, a government problem. He passed a bill that is so complex -- the regulations are so complex and contradictory -- he has got a web site that's not functioning correctly and he thinks that if he makes the right speeches, he says the right words, somehow it will change perception. But here he runs up against the wall.

The truth is, the man is completely out of touch with reality. He believes that he can speak agreement, or at least acquiescence, into existence, kind of like God spoke the world into existence. It is truly scary that 1) someone can actually think that highly of himself, that he is equal to God in some indistinct ethereal way, and 2) that someone like this can be elected to the office he holds and be so unqualified and incompetent at anything other than getting himself elected.