> Higher health insurance premiums are probably to blame for a good part of the desire firms have to hire younger people.

That's why we should tax younger people to pay for older folks' healthcare. Medicare's 3% is just the start - single payer will let us (I'm older than most of you) bleed them in ways that they'll never figure out. (Heck - they haven't figured out social security.)

Then again, that's not a high bar - they haven't figured out that there are lots of ways to cover pre-existing and catastrophic that don't involve inter-generation subsidies. Throw in some rhetoric and they'll even think that you're doing them a favor.

Perhaps. Though in Germany they do have a health care system that does not disadvantage employers of older people like this. I don't if it's making much of a difference.