Heidi Alexander: “Younger Americans in the individual market will pay higher premiums under the Democratic plan because, as I mentioned…”

“Younger Americans in the individual market will pay higher premiums under the Democratic plan because, as I mentioned earlier, it will mandate for individual coverage that I can't pay more than three times as much as my son can pay for an insurance premium. That might help keep my premiums down, but it is going to send his up pretty far because 42 States, including Tennessee, allow more variance of that. So young people across America, who include about 30 percent of the uninsured, are in for a big surprise when their individual policies jump up 30 to 35 percent, which is what the Oliver Wyman report on September 28 said theirs might do, or when, since they are uninsured, they are required to buy insurance and they find the insurance they are required to buy is very expensive.”