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Obamacare’s
Impact on Campus: Students Lose Health Coverage When Premiums Rise
By Alicia Cohn
September 7, 2013
When Obamacare hits campus, students lose options.
Obamacare mandates are already forcing many colleges and universities
to drop student insurance completely or reduce benefits extended to
employee spouses, as the University of Virginia recently did.
A letter sent to parents of students at Indiana’s Taylor University
this summer explains the school had to choose between dropping student
insurance coverage completely or raising premiums by about 110 percent
(from $430 to $946 annually for U.S. students). Taylor chose the
former, explaining in writing that the private school’s insurance
premium costs would rise even higher after the 2013-14 school year.
Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Kathleen Sebelius conceded in
March that some Americans could see their insurance premiums rise under
the new law, but that was after months of insisting premiums would not
go up. Sebelius even ignored a warning from the American Council on
Education that schools might not be able to afford to continue offering
student health plans under the bill.
“I have proof right here,” Carole-Ann Inserra, the mother of one Taylor
student, told Heritage. She provided Heritage with a copy of the letter
from Taylor. “It’s right here on a piece of paper; it’s right here in
writing. Everybody’s insurance rates are going up, so I just don’t
understand why people are out there lying to the American people. I do
understand: it’s politics. But it’s not the truth.”
The letter from Taylor explicitly blames Obamacare for the changes.
Some of the coverage requirements included in the Obamacare mandate
also conflict with the school’s religious teaching.
For the rest of this article and more, go to Heritage Foundation
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