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About a third of the people who are getting the most benefit from Obamacare are between 18 and 34. That’s a good thing from the point of insurers; it’s the demographic least likely to need major healthcare so payments from that group support insurance for demographics more likely to need care.

But it’s also an interesting number, in light of the changes to insurance laws that let younger people stay on their parents’ insurance for longer. That 18-to-35 demographic tends to be uninsured or underinsured, as well as unemployed or underemployed (which might be a direct cause of that not-having-health-insurance thing).