Virginia Democrat: Not Enough Young People Signing Up for Obamacare

Moran: ‘I just don’t know how we’re going to do it, frankly’

Retiring Rep. Jim Moran (D., Va.) said Obamacare could become undone because not enough millennials are signing up for the exchanges, WAMU reports.

While more than 40,000 Virginians signed up for health insurance last month, only 27 percent were part of the younger set the White House is depending on to fund the law, and Moran doesn’t expect those numbers to improve:

“I’m afraid that the millennials, if you will, are less likely to sign up. I think they feel more independent, I think they feel a little more invulnerable than prior generations,” Moran says. “But I don’t think we’re going to get enough young people signing up to make this bill work as it was intended to financially.”

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