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Pro-Obamacare Group Offers Cash to Get People to Sign Up

Posted on March 26, 2014
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Katherine Timpf of Campus Reform reports on just how desperate one pro-Obamacare group is getting, as the administration falls far short of its youth enrollment goals:

A pro-Obamacare group is offering young people a cash prize in a last-minute attempt to convince enough of them to sign up to meet the administration’s goals before the March 31 enrollment deadline.

The White House has said it needs at least 40 percent of Obamacare enrollees to be young, healthy people to offset the costs of covering older, sicker ones. But just two weeks before the deadline, youth enrollment sits at 25 percent, according to a March 11 Department of Health and Human Services report on February numbers.

The administration has no record of how many of those who signed up have actually paid their premiums.

Young Invincibles, a nonprofit based in Washington, DC, has launched the Healthy Young America App Sweepstakes, which gives youth a shot at a $1,200 cash prize for downloading and using their healthcare signup app or sending an entry card in the mail…

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