Word: health
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THIS fall, almost 60,000 students at institutes of higher education in Massacusetts were forced to become guinea pigs in the state's experiment with universal health care. Worse yet, they are being forced to pay a handful of private insurance companies for the privilege. In most cases, they are paying for it with financial aid funds provided by the taxpayers and intended for things such as tuition and books...
...pool of uninsured students affected by the new student health insurance program represents a little less than 15 percent of the total number of college and university students in the state. Under the new regulations, those students are required to pay anywhere between $200 and $600 per year in premiums, with an average cost of $270. Students cannot register for classes this fall unless they have health coverage. Although most schools accept "equivalent coverage" as a substitute for the plans mandated by the state, a few schools, notably Curry, Dean and Hellenic College, require that all students sign...
UNINSURED students--those not covered by either a parent's health insurance or a policy of their own--are more likely to come from lower-income families who qualify for state and federal financial aid. The good news for these students is that they are allowed to use their financial aid dollars to pay for the required health insurance...
...news is that they don't get any extra financial aid to compensate them for the additional expense. With their already tight budgets strained even further by the new regulations, these students face some difficult decisions--such as how to afford both health insurance and books...
...student health insurance program is ultimately doomed to fail because, just like the Catastrophic Health Care Act, it is at best an attempt to apply a Band-aid remedy to a national health care crisis...