N.C. Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan asked Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius how many people are affected by the provision in ObamaCare that allows parents to keep their kids on their insurance until the kids are 26 years old. This was her answer:
“I can’t give you exact numbers today,” Sebelius said. “We’d be happy to try and collect those for you. But, I think, clearly this is impacting millions of young adults around the country in a very positive way, and allows those young adults to think about being an entrepreneur or start their own business or strategies that, again, were impeding their ability to really launch into a professional career, if it did not come attached with health insurance.”
My daughter calls this the “slacker law,” because it allows kids to live at home and play video games until they’re 26. It certainly doesn’t provide any impetus to get out and start a business. Sebelius feels that if you assume the costs of one of life’s must-have commodities, health insurance, incipient entrepreneurs will then have the time to be creative, with none of the real-world anxieties associated with supporting one’s self.
By this reasoning, inner-city housing projects should be breeding grounds for entrepreneurs, and businesses should just be busting out all over, but that’s not the case. Once again, the liberal’s biggest flaw — a monumental misunderstanding of human nature — rears its ugly head.
