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If you have insurance from somewhere else and decline the student insurance offered by Cornell, they're going to charge a $350 fine (I mean fee). So you get billed for not using their service.
Too bad Fox did not spend one minute digging into the fee.
Had they done so they would have learned that Cornell students present with more than 1000 different plans and most of the plans have regionally restrictive networks unless it's an emergency. Students who opt out of the university's plan are required to pay out of pocket at the point of service for non emergency healthcare.
The $350 fee allow students to access preventative and routine healthcare services with a $10 co- pay. In other words students are recieving something in exchange for the fee. It also takes routine medical care out of the area ERs
This service fee is rather common at schools throughout the U.S.
Too bad Fox did not spend one minute digging into the fee.
Had they done so they would have learned that Cornell students present with more than 1000 different plans and most of the plans have regionally restrictive networks unless it's an emergency. Students who opt out of the university's plan are required to pay out of pocket at the point of service for non emergency healthcare.
The $350 fee allow students to access preventative and routine healthcare services with a $10 co- pay. In other words students are recieving something in exchange for the fee. It also takes routine medical care out of the area ERs
This service fee is rather common at schools throughout the U.S.
What? Facts are not important to these kinds of threads.
Too bad Fox did not spend one minute digging into the fee.
Had they done so they would have learned that Cornell students present with more than 1000 different plans and most of the plans have regionally restrictive networks unless it's an emergency. Students who opt out of the university's plan are required to pay out of pocket at the point of service for non emergency healthcare.
The $350 fee allow students to access preventative and routine healthcare services with a $10 co- pay. In other words students are recieving something in exchange for the fee. It also takes routine medical care out of the area ERs
This service fee is rather common at schools throughout the U.S.
But why would most of the students need it? Obamacare lets them stay on their parents plan until 26. So the students and/or their parents now have to pay a fee to Cornell for being insured.
The people paying the fee already have health insurance, so they have access to preventative and routine services. They are gaining nothing new, just being forced to pay a fine.
Cornell said they had to institute this because the campus is now having trouble funding these services. Looks like more "unintended" consequences of Obamacare, allowing them to stay on their parent's health care, and now these students are forced to pay a fine. If they voted for Obama, then I have zero sympathy for them.
But why would most of the students need it? Obamacare lets them stay on their parents plan until 26. So the students and/or their parents now have to pay a fee to Cornell for insurance they don't need due to Obamacare.
Not everyone in college is under 26, and not everyone under 26 is on their parents' plan.
Not everyone in college is under 26, and not everyone under 26 is on their parents' plan.
Right, and those people can buy the Cornell plans at $2,400 per year. This thread is about insured students who are pissed that they now have to pay a fine to Cornell for having their own insurance.
Right, and those people can buy the Cornell plans. This thread is about insured students who are pissed that they now have to pay a fine to Cornell for having their own insurance.
Cornell is fining the people who have their own insurance.
And that point has been explained in this thread already.
And that point has been explained in this thread already.
Yes, I explained it above. The students with insurance are now being fined because Cornell is losing revenue due to Obamacare.
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