Obamacare needs young people to sign up. And it looks like they’re starting.

[highplainsdem]

Source: Washington Post

This demographic is important -- and also thought to be an especially tough sell. Young adults tend to have lower health-care costs and would be less likely to use their health plan. Paying a monthly premium when you don't expect to get sick doesn't sound like the greatest deal.

That's what makes some early health law data surprising: A few signs are cropping up that, at least initially, young people have been among the more enthusiastic Affordable Care Act shoppers.

Access Health CT, Connecticut's marketplace, said earlier this week that approximately one-third of the people who have so far applied for coverage there are under 35. This would hover around the administration's goal of having 2.7 million of the 7 million estimated new enrollees be between 18 and 35.

Maryland put out new data Friday afternoon on the 25,000 people who have so far created accounts on its marketplace. The biggest demographic? Shoppers between 25 and 29.

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Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2013/10/11/obamacare-needs-young-people-to-sign-up-and-it-looks-like-theyre-starting/

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. YAY!

[phleshdef]

2. Me and my wife are both under 35 and are changing over to an exchange plan.

[Tarheel_Dem]

3. Good news indeed. nt

[murielm99]

4. It seems to me that many people this age will have young children.

They may be concerned not only for their own health care needs, but also for their children.

I did not have my children until I was past thirty, but I would never have gone without coverage for them.

[glowing]

6. That's my take on the situation... If my husband didn't have insurance thru his job,

we would be shopping the exchanges as well... As it is, we have employee ins. And we are in that bracket. Hopefully, our costs will decrease now that these exchanges are coming up with some very cheap plans with quality attatched to them. Our rate per month is well above what people in the exchanges are qualifying for. I'm somewhat becoming jealous. But not quite yet... we need to get Prick Scott out of FL Gov mansion and accept the medicaid funding.

[Kingofalldems]

5. I like this one.

[gopiscrap]

7. Good