New college health plans are about to come into affect however there is a major flaw. "Since student plans for the 2010-11 school year were negotiated before Sept. 23, they aren't subject to the regulations this year". These rules include offering coverage to men and woman until the age of 26 and devoting at least 80% of their revenue to health-care costs. Some students depending on when they entered school will be exempted permanently from many new elements of the law. In the article there are many examples of insurance companies and colleges not being able to properly provide inexpensive health care to their students and therefore are forcing some into deeper debt. These plans have not been thoroughly scrutinized," says Bryan A. Liang, executive director of the Institute of Health Law Studies. Providing affordable health care to students is important and the policy should not just have a date where some students are allowed and some are not.
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I agree that students pay enough to attend a university so affordable health care should be provided on campus for all students. With a campus comes much sickness that can spread rapidly among students and I believe a university has some responsibility to offer health care at a reasonable rate to everyone regardless of when he or she entered school. If necessary, university budgets should be reworked in order to allow affordable health care to all students and prevent students from entering into further debt.
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