In his March 26 column, “Obamacare as legacy,” which criticized the Affordable Care Act, Robert J. Samuelson stated that the act’s “[r]equiring younger workers to have expensive, comprehensive insurance (as opposed to catastrophic coverage) expands the undesirable inter-generational transfer from them to their wealthier elders.” But the act does allow young people (those under the age of 30) to satisfy the individual mandate requirement by buying low-cost catastrophic coverage plans. See Section 1302(e) of the act.

Jerold D. Cummins, Arlington