Mar 13 2008
Bill Would Require Insurance Companies to Coverage for College Students
Like 40 percent of young adults in South Carolina, Matthews lost inclusion in her parents’ health care coverage when the insurance industry deemed that she was too old.The state is now joining more than 30 others that have tried to find ways to increase age limits and extend coverage to their uninsured, although industry insiders warn that it could end up costing many families higher premium costs.
Of course it will raise the premiums. If you are going to force insurance companies to cover people that they normally do not they are naturally going to raise the rates on everybody to guard against the added risk. I don’t want to hear about the poor graduate students who are struggling to get by and can’t afford health insurance. These people chose this path of extra schooling knowing full well they’d be dropped from their parent’s policy at a certain age. There is no reason why some of them can’t start working full time so that they have health coverage and do the grad school part time. That’s what I’m going to be doing.
I’m also not feeling the sorrow for Miss Matthews that Ms Wenger is trying to pour onto the readers of her article. This girl is a 26 year old adult medical student who chose an educational path that accumulated her $200K in loan debt. She is not a victim here the way Wenger is trying to portray her. When she finishes school she’ll be making a pretty penny and she won’t have any problems wiping her debt away. What the hell is another five grand anyway if you already owe 200?
These are not children we are talking about. They are adults. They need to act like it and accept responsibility for themselves, not expect others to do it for them.
A-Freakin-Men!
Look, Look, I’m playing the worlds smallest violin for all the poor, down trodden medical students…