Obama Screws His Base (i.e., You)

Ben Smith writes at Buzzfeed about how Obamacare shortchanges young people by forcing young people to subsidize the coast of health care for oldsters.  Smith writes:

The second is a lesser-known policy to limit the practices of charging different premiums to different ages, known as age-rating. Many states currently set a limit on this difference, often mandating that an old person shouldn't pay a premium more than five times a younger person's, even if she's expected to use more than five times as much health care. The ObamaCare provision kicking in next Jan. 1 would reduce that ratio to three-to-one, essentially limiting what the elderly pay in part by forcing young people to carry a larger share of the total cost of national health care. 

And what are young people doing about this generational theft (sound of crickets chirping)?

The near-total silence on this issue is a mark of a class that is either utterly selfless (hard to believe, honestly) or, as usual, singularly bad at seeing and defending its interests.
And so this vast transfer or resources from young to old — just the latest in a long line of these transfers — hasn't been discussed much because it is totally uncontroversial. Compare it to the footnote that has at times turned into a national obsession: Religious conservatives' objection to a provision favoring the young (and possibly saving money), the new requirement for private coverage of contraception. 

They don't call today's young people the Sucker Generation for nothing.