Young adults file Supreme Court brief in support of health care reform | Florida Independent

An advocacy group for young people called the Young Invincibles filed a legal brief in support of President Obama’s health care reform law, which the group says promised health insurance for 17 million young adults.

The Hill reports:

Some 20 million young adults between the ages of 18 and 34 currently don’t have insurance, the group argues. When the full benefits of the law kick in in 2014, about 8 million young adults will qualify for Medicaid and another 9 million will become eligible for federal subsidies to buy private insurance on new state health insurance exchanges.

The group’s amicus brief argues that the requirement that everyone have insurance — the crux of the legal challenges against the law — “does not impose a significant burden on young adults.”

“On the other hand,” the brief argues, “eliminating this and other pillars of the [healthcare reform law] would undermine the regulatory scheme and harm the health and economic well-being of millions of young Americans by denying them access to affordable healthcare.”