Washington doesn’t seem to understand that if Obamacare was truly a good program for college students, no one would have to encourage them to join.

FOX News Latino reports.

As Obamacare Deadline Looms, Full-Court Press To Sign Up Young Americans

White House officials have minimized the slow enrollment by young people, saying they always expected those in their 20s and 30s to enroll toward the end of the six-month sign-up period. Spokesman Jay Carney said young people are more likely to be deadline driven and “late to the party when it comes to signing up.”

Megan Chapman is among the holdouts. The 23-year-old college student from High Point, N.C., has been without health insurance for several years. She’s been thinking about signing up through the new federal marketplace but said she’s heard conflicting information about the costs, prompting her to do more research before she follows through.

“It just depends on the price and how much financial aid I can get,” said Chapman, her laptop and spiral notebook spread out before her as she worked in the Guilford Technical Community College cafeteria in Jamestown, N.C. “I’m unemployed. I can’t pay a whole lot of money. So that will definitely be a major factor.”

As Chapman studied, a volunteer from Enroll America was going from table to table in the cafeteria, encouraging uninsured students to sign up for coverage. The volunteer, retired dentist Benjamin Williams, 75, didn’t persuade Chapman to enroll, but he did get her to sign a card setting her up for a follow-up phone call to answer her health care questions. With Chapman’s personal information now in Enroll America’s system, volunteers will almost certainly keep tabs on her enrollment status through the March 31 deadline, mirroring the way the Obama campaign kept track of likely Democratic voters.

Unlike the political campaign, in which staffers relied on voting records to track possible supporters, there’s no ready-made list of the uninsured. So outside groups are compiling their own databases through contacts their volunteers make while they’re promoting the health law at colleges, bars, church youth group events, even laundromats.