I’m shocked . . . no, not really.
Via NRO:
Cover Oregon, the state health-insurance exchange that last fall spent more than $3 million in federal funds on a series of arty music videos featuring soulful folk-hipsters, is tied for last among state exchanges for signing up younger enrollees.
A new Department of Health and Human Services report finds that only 18 percent of the Beaver State’s enrollees are between the ages of 18 and 34. The Affordable Care Act’s fragile economics demand that this key demographic be highly represented among state exchange enrollees.
Most analysts consider signing up high percentages of young customers crucial to Obamacare’s success. Yet Oregon, despite longstanding efforts to remake itself as a hipster-friendly “creative class” utopia, has struck out among the young.