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VIDEO: Students at historically black college complain Obamacare has left them uninsured
Campus Reform ^

Posted on 11/16/2013 11:29:45 AM PST by sunmars

Students at Bowie State University assailed the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on Thursday after administrators cancelled a low cost school-wide health care plan due to new regulations in the law.

Many students told Campus Reform that the now cancelled plans, which provided coverage for just $50 per semester, were the only insurance they could afford.

“I can’t afford anything right now,” one said. “I can’t even afford my loans.”

“We don’t have that money,” said another. “We can barely afford books.”

Several students said that they felt they had been let down.

“It’s stupid and it’s Obama’s fault,” one said. “You haven’t done anything, Obama, and I’m disappointed in you.”

“What it was hyped up to be, was that it was supposed to solve a lot of problems and help a lot of people, and its not really doing that,” said another.

Many students had no idea the plans had been canceled, which was announced only in an email to their school addresses.

In a statement to Campus Reform, Bowie State said it was confident that Obamacare would fill the void left by the canceled plans.

“Most students are now able to be covered under their parent’s health plans up to age 26 at no additional cost and new affordable coverage is becoming available through the Maryland State Insurance Exchange System,” it read.

Campus Reform conducted the interviews with student Eugene Craig III, who first wrote about canceled plans in an article in the school’s alternative newspaper, The Bulldog Collegian.

(Excerpt) Read more at campusreform.org ...


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KEYWORDS: lawlessnation; obama; obamacare; obamalies
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To: sunmars
Poor victims of their own demise. Can't even afford a tooth brush.


81 posted on 11/17/2013 1:49:30 AM PST by Daffynition (*$17,000,000,000,000* Fear the beards! GO SOX!)
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To: sunmars

“..Students at historically black college complain Obamacare has left them uninsured...”

Awww... ain’t that a shame... Your Bro left you holding the bag.

How’s that Hope and Change thingy working out?


82 posted on 11/17/2013 3:16:24 PM PST by NFHale (The Second Amendment - By Any Means Necessary.)
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To: wastedyears
They won’t be eligible if they make over a certain amount per month.

I assumed college students don't earn a heckuva lot.

83 posted on 11/17/2013 5:21:26 PM PST by Go Gordon (Barack McGreevey Obama)
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To: sunmars
"Most students are now able to be covered under their parent’s health plans up to age 26 at no additional cost..."

That and pre-existing conditions were the two main clauses in the ACA to kill it and go to English/Canadian single payer route that has devasted their medical services. Hardly risk management as insurance companies used to do.

They thought with an additional fictional 40 million new insurees, they'd make money. So yes, I call the insurance companies greedy - but now what do they think? The joke is on them as businesses drop their plans for full time employees? They go out of business and/or loose profits.

If only we could get the Fedgov to declare that any car accident or house fire or burglary theft can be insured after the fact. We'd live in Utopia. Oops, forgot if I trip while walking down the side walk that I should get insured after the fact. Hey, out of all the people struck by lightening every year, they should be able to buy "Lightening" insurance after the bolt.

84 posted on 11/18/2013 2:19:44 PM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever!)
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To: sunmars

HAHA! Dumbasses! You were taught to embrace socialism my your socialist/communist professors and you bought it. Enjoy the rewards of a historically failed system.


85 posted on 11/18/2013 2:22:13 PM PST by A Navy Vet (An Oath is Forever!)
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