Student Health Plans Won’t Escape Reform
When Congress passed landmark health care reform passed last year, was at least a coverage plan omitted from the law – insurance programs exclusively focused on students. Now the federal government appears determined to close that gap. A positive decision would provide better protection from next year to 3 million students covered by this policy. But there would likely trade-offs in the form of higher prices. Earlier this month, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services proposed a regulation that the student health insurance plans offered by colleges and universities would be essentially the same standards for protection, as described in the 2010 federal Act, affordable care.
Student projects were originally exempt from the law sweeping because they covered such a specific niche of people for relatively short periods, health experts said. The proposal would change cover three main areas of student insurance plans and clearly defined terms and conditions. The objective of the government is equal to how people are treated in the new world “of health care. The vast majority of students today returned to the employer of a parent-provided health care plan if they need medical care, or they buy private policies. But more than 1,500 colleges and universities contract with insurers to offer health plans that are often reduced coverage and benefits, but at more affordable prices to offer.