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Wednesday, September 16, 2009 4:57 PM
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Samantha Henig
A post from DoubleX writer Meredith Simons:
Remind me again why one people between the ages of 18 and 25 don’t have health insurance? Oh, right, because “they are going to live forever and therefore have no use for doctors.” Or so says Tim Noah in this Slate piece griping about how young people might actually catch a break under Sen. Max Baucus’ newly-revealed reform plan.
Noah joins a chorus of other distinguished voices (Mark Steyn,
anyone?) who have claimed—always without evidence, as far as I can
tell—that 20-somethings believe they are immortal. Apparently there is
middle ground on the subject of health care reform, and it consists of
deriding young people for being such careless fools ... (Read more in DoubleX.)