"Meet Brendan Mahoney, the young man who is saving
ObamaCare. He's 30 years old, a third-year law student at the University of
Connecticut. He's actually been insured for the past three years--in 2011 and
2012 through a $2,400-a-year school-sponsored health plan, and this year through
"a high-deductible, low-premium plan that cost about $39 a month through a
UnitedHealthcare subsidiary." But he wanted to see what ObamaCare had to
offer.
"He tried logging in to the exchange's website at 8:45
a.m. yesterday, which is impressive in itself. Most young people don't get up
that early. "He said the system could not verify his identity." So he called the
toll-free help line, whose operator also encountered computer trouble. "But then
he logged on a second time, he said, and the system worked."
"Once it got running, it was fast," Mahoney tells the
Courant. "It really made my day. It's a lot like TurboTax." He obtained
insurance through ObamaCare. Now, he says, "if I get sick, I'll definitely go to
the doctor." Even better, if he stays healthy, he won't need to go to a doctor,
and his premiums will support chronically ill policyholders on the wrong side of
40.
"So, how much of a premium is strapping young Brendan
Mahoney paying to help make ObamaCare work? Oops. The Courant reports that
Mahoney "said that by filling out the application online, he discovered he was
eligible for Medicaid. So, beginning next year, he won't pay any premium at
all."
"So the great success story of ObamaCare's first day is
the transformation of a future lawyer who was already paying for
insurance into a welfare case."
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