Here's a true story related to the component of Obamacare that allowed children to remain on their parents health insurance until age 26...
I am a business owner and I provide health insurance for my employees and I kid you not when I say that some appear to have no understanding of the real costs of this on a monthly basis. One of my employees has 2 sons that are/were 21 and 23 or something when the 26 year old feature came into being a couple of years ago.
The dad, my employee, saw this as an opportunity to take advantage of. He had his oldest kid drop health insurance where he worked full time and added him back to his plan...and then the kicker...he had his for the healthcare he was now receiving on the plan I was obligated to pay for courtesy of the Affordable Care Act.
In other words, dad saw nothing wrong with adding another member of his household, a son that was working elsewhere and had healthcare available to him, to the plan I was paying for and then charging the son for healthcare coverage and pocketing the money.
He actually was proud of himself and came into my office one day to tell me how great this was. Being the selfish, greedy business owner that I am, let's just say that I was not amused by this and did not share in his enthusiasm about this great thing that Obama did.
I will also say that he no longer works for me and this episode was one of the final straws that led to me dismissing him. When the government gets "involved" and makes laws that others, in this case me, have to pay for while the recipients wander around clueless while receiving largesse from the government I think it is time for a different leader.
