Students need low-cost health coverage I am writing in response to the article about requiring health insurance for college students.
CLEVELAND, Sept. 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- With health care reform provisions coming into effect, "What Health Care Reform Means for Students" reports on the current and future status of health insurance coverage for young Americans attending college. College students may be among the happiest Americans with regard to the Health Care Reform Bill of 2010. Starting September 23rd, 2010, young adults may now remain covered by their parents' health insurance until the age of 26. During the six months since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was passed, there has been great confusion about the provisions and their implications. The HealthInsuranceSort.com article clearly outlines the law and how students, and parents, will be affected by the changes.
It's the first real-life test for students heading off to college: picking the right health insurance plan. The confusion starts before students even step foot on campus, when families must decide whether to sign up for a school-based health insurance plan.
The Kanawha-Charleston Health Department has vaccinated a little more than one-fourth of county students during in-school flu vaccine clinics this fall, officials said. As of Monday, the program has provided vaccines for 26 percent of the countys student population. The flu clinics started in early September and will wrap up this week. Since 2009, the Health Department has partnered with Kanawha County schools and private schools to offer flu vaccines to every student in the county. Health officials started offering vaccines in response to the outbreak of H1N1. Since then it has become an annual program. The number of students vaccinated this year held steady from last year when about the same number of students opted to get vaccines, said Dr. Rahul Gupta, executive director of the Heal...
I served an LDS mission, got married, went to college and pharmacy school – and started a family. We were offered Medicaid to pay for our babies and my wife flatly refused. Because the LDS Church encourages self-reliance, we knew that our children were our responsibility. Taking government handouts, or expecting others to pay for them, was not just wrong, but immoral. We purchased a high deductible catastrophic health insurance, which was affordable even for college students. We then negotiated a payment plan with a doctor and a hospital. After graduation, we lived modestly until we had paid our obligations. I wonder why so many college students so readily accept Medicaid. Did they think Medicaid is just a free government grant for college students like a Pell grant? Or worse, wer...
Some have fallen ill with chronic illnesses, even cancer. They often try to stay in school, sometimes just to hold onto their insurance. But that insurance only goes so far. Plan on fighting a bout of cancer-chemo, radiation and surgery included? Just hope your med bills don't top the Boise State student maximum coverage of $100,000. Entering school with a case of multiple sclerosis that leaves you too healthy to go on Medicaid and too sick to get private coverage? Don't count on the 2004-2005 Boise State's health insurance plan and its host of exemptions including pre-existing conditions, syringes, braces and sparse coverage for specialists and routine tests. Expect instead for the $800-plus annual student health insurance premium to cover about $400 of your current medication c...
... The youngest of students come to college with a certain invincible mindset,...
If you go to the bank to get a loan to buy a car and the car turns out to be a lemon, who are you upset with? Not the bank - the car company or the guy who sold the car to you is the problem. It's the same with college loans: You borrow a lot of money to get an education that will enable you to be gainfully employed. The cost of public college has doubled in the past 10 years, which puts it on par with health insurance for rising costs. For that money, far too many students are left with a lot of debt and no marketable skills. Of course, some of that certainly is the fault of specific students, who perhaps chose poorly in the degree they sought or didn't put in the effort to achieve good grades.
STUDENT EXCHANGE International Student Exchange is seeking host homes for high school international students for the 2004-2005 school year. ISE has 15- to 18-year-old students from Europe, Asia and South America who would like to visit for a semester or for a school year. Students come with their own spending money and health insurance. For more information, call 562-7467, or 345-8940. FLEA MARKET The Cross Lanes United Methodist Women will have their annual flea market from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Friday and Saturday, May 7-8, in the church Family Life Center. There will be a bake sale table, where pies, cakes, cookies and candy will be sold. Breakfast and lunch items also will be sold. Profits from the event will be used for mission work projects. The church is behind A&W Restaurant, on F...
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