Why, for heaven's sake?
Regards,
This is nothing new... my graduate school demanded this in 1991... the ostensible idea seems to be to help keep disease from spreading.
I assume the university wants somewhere to send the school clinic bills to.
One very under-reported story these days is widespread STDs brought on by rampant promiscuity.
When I was that age 40 yrs ago nobody gave a rip about health insurance. Now it's a big deal for that age bracket.
“The University of North Carolina system requires all students to have health insurance coverage [...]
Why, for heaven’s sake?”
Because if a very sick, but uninsured, student shows up at the student health center and requires hospitalization, the university does not want to kick the student to the curb. (Can you imagine the bad publicity for the university if it did?) Without the mandate, the cost of the university’s student health insurance would be even higher because of the “lemons” problem.