Amid reports of colleges dropping their plans because the required premium hikes would be too much financial burden to bear, the two factions agree: this repercussion, in theory at least, isn’t really the worst thing.
That’s because the plans being dropped were, relatively speaking, rather flimsy.
“Those plans are extremely low-quality plans – they’re not typical of many college health plans,” said Aaron Smith, co-founder and executive director of Young Invincibles, an advocacy organization that has pushed for better student health plans. “It’s not really a surprise that plans that have such low quality, which really are not real insurance at all, are going to have to make pretty drastic changes.”
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2012/06/13/colleges-drop-low-coverage-student-health-insurance-plans-comply-federal-rules
