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Bond is a former Georgia state senator who now is host to a television talk show in Washington...
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...
There is absolutely nothing wrong with trying to ensure that all students have adequate medical insurance. But there is something dreadfully wrong with the way that the state of Massachusetts is going about...
...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...
...Often in the Emergency Room a woman is calm, but this is really a state of psychological numbing and dissociation," Gould said...