| Apologies in advance for cherry-picking points to respond to, but ... > * Age 26 under the parents health care plan, fine, but damnit kid, get a job. Do something with yourself. I don't think you can simply equate having a job to "do[ing] something with yourself". Neither can you equate not having a job to not "do[ing] something with yourself". As always, situations (especially in the macro) are complex and subtle and solutions can't be boiled down to a simple directive. Adults < 26 are often not the ones responsible for not being able to obtain a job. Yes, they may have chosen a field of study that's not in demand (even though many were probably told to "do what you love"), but they've also likely had very little opportunity to impact things like domestic economic policy, employment trends, or even employers not recognizing shifts in demographically driven skill-sets. > * Birth Control, yes and no. We should be able to opt out paying for it, especially if it goes against my religion and frankly it does, but I won't stop others from opting in and paying for it. In a system where much (most?) health insurance is provided as an employer paid benefit, why should my employer get to decide whether I'm opted in or out of a particular thing based on religion? Ideally (from my point of view), religion plays zero part in health care. What is wrong with a benefit being available to all and only used by those that want to use it? Is this so different from the "in the privacy of my own bedroom" argument? |