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Student Health Insurance | HEALTH REFORM: Battle Over College Health Insurance
Posted By: admin on July 20, 2010 at 1:08 am
We’re crossposting this excellent piece from the Higher Ed Watch Blog by Maggie Severns, our colleague in the New America Foundation Education Policy program. She takes a look at the provision in the Affordable Care Act that will allow young adults to stay on their parents’ insurance plans until age 26 (see our posts here and here ), and what it could mean for college students and college health insurance plans. As with many of the provisions in the new health reform law, the letter of the law is a goal — how we get there will depend on how the regulations are written.
Next year, all young adults between the ages of 19 and 26 will have the option of remaining on their parents health insurance. This is one of the most popular elements of the new health care reform law, and it is expected to remove a sizeable barrier to health care access for a group that too often lacks coverage — but will it be this simple?
For college students, it might not be. Depending on how new regulations are written, accessing health care on campus could remain costly and restrictive for many students.
As Higher Ed Watch has reported , colleges tend to strongly encourage (and sometimes mandate) students to buy school-sponsored student health insurance/benefit plans (SHIBPS) even if the students or their families have alternate health insurance that offers more-comprehensive coverage. At many schools, students are allowed to opt out but are charged much higher fees when they try to use their insurance at their campus health centers.
Colleges and insurance companies, such as United Health Care and Aetna , want to keep things as they are as they have lucrative deals that could be
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