FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, July 7, 2016 CONTACT: Nina Smith, nina.smith@younginvincibles.org, 301-717-9006 Washington, D.C. — Today, the U.S. House Committee on Education and the Workforce passed out of committee HR 5587, the Strengthening Career and Technical Education for the 21st Century...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 21, 2013 Contact: Riana King, riana.king@younginvincibles.org, 213.221.7326 Young Invincibles’ Statement on Covered California’s October Numbers Over 30,000 Californians Have Already Enrolled in Health Plans Set to Begin Coverage in January 2014 [SACRAMENTO, Calif.]—According to a report from Covered...
By Tobin Van Ostern and Spencer Dixon The myth still lives on. Health policymakers and pundits continue to call our generation ‘young invincibles,’ the term that derives from the ill-conceived theory that young people choose not to purchase health insurance...
Guest Blog by Aileen Connolly Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, over 435,000 young adults in California now have health care coverage because they can stay on their parents’ health care plan until the age of 26. As a result,...
July 25, 2013 in Ledger Inquirer; cross-posted on July 26, 2013 in Bradenton Herald by Tony Pugh WASHINGTON — Amid a resurgent effort by critics to attack the new health care law, the Obama administration and its allies are focusing on...
July 18, 2013 in The Atlantic by Garance Franke-Ruta Only half the nation’s governors have signed onto the Medicaid expansionunder the Affordable Care Act and the bill’s employer mandate has been delayed for a year, but the White House remains confident about...
July 17, 2013 in The Washington Post; re-posted July 19, 2013 in Bangor Daily News by Ezra Klein and Sarah Kliff Deep inside the White House, in a bare room that the chief of staff uses for meetings, David Simas...
By Tom Allison In just three months, the first state health insurance marketplaces created by the Affordable Care Act will open, and millions of uninsured Americans will have the opportunity to purchase more comprehensive, more affordable coverage, often with the...
In the recent blockbuster movie Iron Man 3, Robert Downey Jr. plays Tony Stark (aka Iron Man), a self-described “Genius Billionaire Playboy Philanthropist” who fights bad guys with the help of his flying suit of armor. Tony Stark comes off...
By Ariel Boone Since our last update, Young Invincibles has been realizing its dreams of westward expansion. California’s team has grown to a staff of eight, now including the California Policy and Research Director, Linda Leu, and me. Three weeks...