FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

December 21, 2013

Contact: Colin Seeberger, colin.seeberger@younginvincibles.org, 214.223.2913

Young Invincibles Responds to Congressman’s Faulty Assertion That Young Adults Getting Covered Under the ACA Is a ‘Ripoff’

[WASHINGTON]—This week, Rep. Aaron Shock (R-IL 18) delivered the Republican Weekly Address and described the Affordable Care Act as a ‘ripoff’ for young adults. Young Invincibles’ Co-Founder and Executive Director Aaron Smith released the following statement in response to Rep. Shock’s misguided comments:

“Over half of young adults who are uninsured struggle with medical debt or medical bills.  Rep. Schock should try telling any young person that has gotten sick or injured in a car accident and run up tens of thousands of dollars in medical bills that having insurance is a ‘ripoff.’ Under the Affordable Care Act, up to 16.7 million of America’s 19 million uninsured young adults could be eligible for Medicaid coverage, if all states expanded, or tax credits – in other words, the type of reduced cost coverage options that members of Congress themselves enjoy.”

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Young Invincibles is a national organization committed to amplifying the voices of young adults, ages 18 to 34, and expanding economic opportunity for our generation. Young Invincibles ensures that young adults are represented in today’s most pressing societal debates through cutting-edge policy research and analysis, and innovative campaigns designed to educate, inform and mobilize our generation to change the status quo.