Why Blizzard Should Support Obamacare

World of Warcraft (WoW) has been the most famous MMO to date, and this is in spite of a $15 monthly fee to play. I don't know about you, but even if a game was the best game in the universe, wasn't an MMO, and I wasn't unemployed, I still wouldn't pay $15 a month to play it. I wouldn't pay that much even if it were Team Fortress 2 with endless weapon variations, limitless maps, and thousands of class taunts that would pause entire games because people would be on their backs laughing.

Back to the point, I think WoW playing will experience at least a considerable increase after the passage of Obamacare. Among the many not-so small provisions of this enormous measure, the Senate bill allows for young adults to stay on their parents' insurance policy until they are 26. The House bill allows for this until the age of 27. The only two things aside from passing the age limit that disqualifies you are marriage and being a parent.

What is missing here? An education requirement, one that requires people to be full time students at least one semester of a year. If we are going to force insurance companies to allow for parental coverage of young people, we might at least make sure the young people are using this time productively, bettering themselves for the good of society. But this is not so according to this plan. Since their health insurance is being covered by parents under law, the young people have extra money from their jobs that they can use to pay for WoW subscriptions (if they are not getting laid, or for when they are not getting laid), and game for long hours instead of studying. It's the essential nerd boon, and it is moreso a boon for Blizzard Entertainment. I don't know the politics of the people at Blizzard, but somehow I doubt it is anywhere near hard-line conservative. That being said, I think it would be smart for them to back Obamacare. What greater benefit than a bunch of young people not obligated to further education using incomes from their lower wage jobs to fuel their WoW addiction.