college plans par with the local medical providers and facilities, out of town/state plans not so much...
Posted on 04/15/2015 3:32:16 PM PDT by yuffy
American college students are being forced off of their student health plans across the United States, and onto the state and federal exchanges set up by the Affordable Care Act, better known as Obamacare.
Back in 2013, President Obama came under fire for claiming “if you like your plan, you can keep it” in regards to Obamacare’s new plans. This was taken by most Americans as a promise that new plans would not threaten the health insurance they already had.
For more and more college students however, this promise seems to have been broken as schools stop offering insurance.
According to the AP, experts are divided on whether this trend is positive. Some argue that plans from the marketplace are cheaper than college plans, while opponents say that the plans are less likely to be purchased this way since they aren’t part of a lump sum payment each year or semester.
(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...
I thought that 0bama said that students were going to be covered on their parent’s insurance.
college plans par with the local medical providers and facilities, out of town/state plans not so much...
bfl
Only if their parent’s put them on their plan ... and assuming their parents have insurance
“The main driver of colleges getting out of the insurance business is a provision in the Affordable Care Act that prevents students from using premium tax subsidies to purchase insurance from their college or university…..Add to that the provision that allows young people to stay on their parent’s health insurance plans until age 26, plus the expansion of Medicaid in some states and the rising cost of student insurance. The result is cheaper health insurance available for students off campus,” the AP reports.”
Whitey needs to pay more. Whatchall talkin bout?
Bump
American college students are being forced off of their student health plans across the United States
Now we need to do the same for Public Employees, they supported this crap as did the majority of these indoctrinated fools in college, they should be forced to live with it also.
BWHAHAHAHA!! Stupid kids. Yeah, you voted for “Hope’’ and you got your “Change’’. They’ll never learn. The next Marxist to come down the pike will sing the same tune with a different melody and they go back out and vote for it.
Where’s the rhinoceros article? I wouldn’t have clicked on just another Obama lie about his snafu- health insurance. Smile smile thanks
Covering kids on the parents’ plan can be very expensive. It changes the plan from a couples plan to a family plan, at least in NY state. NOT a benefit or a cost saver.
Student plans used to offer basic coverage at an affordable price because the insurance pool was comprised of relatively healthy young people. Now, under the ACA, these plans have all of the mandates required of any “qualified” plan, and their cost has skyrocketed.
As a college student this makes me sad.
Bwahahaaaaaaaaaaaa. I hope the LIBs choke on their “transformation”.
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