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I was about to do the "in before 'they can stay on their parents' insurance'", but thought people weren't stupid enough to respond with something like that, particularly because their parents don't have to insure their kids if they don't want.
Because most of them are now able to stay on their parents' plans until age 26?
Especially college students who have long been covered under their parents' insurance.
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College kids are under their parents insurance and if not the college offers it. So I'm not sure why they would sign up for this.
Yeah. Not sure why this is so hard for people to figure out.
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You're stuck in 2004 my friend. Today's college students don't use Facebook anymore.
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Of course they use Facebook. It's the only way they communicate other than texting. They don't talk on the phone which is a shame.
Nope - Facebook is now officially for 'old folks'. Twitter, instagram, snapchat ~ seems to be what my 18 year old spends his time on. I'm sure there is more I don't know about!
I had a great health plan in college through the university. I didn't realize how good it was until I started working full time. I would never buy an individual policy over my college policy.
When I was at my university I had my healthcare covered by the university through my tuition costs. So it would have made no sense to sign up for ACA if I already had health insurance. Plus thanks to ACA young people can stay on their parents' healthcare plan until 26, which is good because it is common for those under 26 to work part time jobs and jobs that didn't provide health insurance to begin with, and the ones that aren't on their parents' plan now has a way to get affordable healthcare.
Except that some universities have been dropping the insurance offered to students because of changes made by Obamacare.
It is important to note that "dropping insurance" has happened for essentially two reasons: (1) The entity dropping the insurance has some sort of moral reason not to provide the required-by-ACA coverage or (2) the insurance being dropped was insufficient.
Type in a search using the words "university drops healthcare coverage" or health insurance and see all the many news stories of various universities who've dropped student coverage due to Obamacare.
$5000 coverage? That will pay for a couple stitches in a finger...ACA wants more than that.
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Note that UPS is dropping coverage for spouses who are covered elsewhere (I thought that was standard stuff for a long time?). Note, too, that of the links supplied above about colleges, the participation rate is shockingly low anyway - the one college has =8= new participants a semester/year and the other has less than 10% participation rate! Gosh, it's a TRAGEDY that these institutions are "dropping" their low-cap insurance plans!
That is to say, we are seeing Yet Another False Scandal being pushed into our faces yet have no merit at ALL.
Last edited by sullyguy; 12-08-2013 at 08:17 AM..
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