Student Health Care Costs to Skyrocket at Private NC College Due to Obamacare: ‘This Is the Beginning’
- Posted on August 27, 2012 at 7:54pm by
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Obamacare supporters react to the U.S. Supreme Court decision to uphold President Obama's health care law, on June 28, 2012 in Washington, DC. (Credit: Getty Images)
Guilford College in North Carolina will likely be forced to charge students 75 percent more for health insurance in order to comply with federal regulations under President Barack Obama’s sweeping healthcare law, college administrators told Campus Reform.
The cost for university provided health insurance is expected to increase dramatically from $668 to $1,179 in the 2012-2013 school year, Greg Bursavich, vice president for finance at Guilford College, told students in an email in late July.
“Our student health insurance policy premium has been substantially increased due to changes required by federal regulations issued on March 16, 2012 under the Affordable Care Act,” read the email from Bursavich.
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In an exclusive interview with Campus Reform, Bursavich further implicated Obamacare for the drastic rise in prices.
“It is directly related – it is only related – to the new healthcare law,” said Bursavich. “There is no reason why it has gone up except the requirements of the new law have forced it to go up. That is the whole story.”
He added that costs were rising because ObamaCare mandates students are covered for certain health services “deemed essential” by the federal government.
“[T]he notion that the health care law wouldn’t cost everybody more money is nonsense,” said Bursavich. “[You can’t] begin adding coverage on things that used to not be covered and just assume that some genie in the sky is going to pay for it. We are all paying for it and this is the beginning.”
Guilford College reportedly requires all of their students to have some form of health insurance. Students can stay on their parents’ insurance, buy their own or utilize the school’s insurance plan.
“We want them to have insurance. We want our students to be taken care of,” Bursavich added. “It’s because we care about them.”
(H/T: Young America’s Foundation)
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Comments (76)
thibx
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:44pmunions, muslims, polski whole district is exempt.
Report Post »FANGS
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:25pmAll Obamacare is is a taxpayer Slush fund for Unions and democrats. Worth Fighting to the death, to stop. I won’t become a slave to freeloaders needs
Report Post »Exrepublisheep
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:46pmTell the freeloading students to get jobs. The School shouldn’t be footing ANY health care costs related to student health.
Report Post »nowonuno
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:41pmBait and switch kiddies. Welcome to reality you highly-indoctrinated slow-learners.
Report Post »Female
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 1:22amBy paying $500 more, now you get to have FREE birth control!
Report Post »JosephMichael
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 7:11amNo one said the insurance was free to these college students. It actually states that the college students will have to foot the bill. Most likely it will be a line item on their bill if they don’t already have insurance.
Report Post »atechgeek
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 8:05am@Exrepublisheep : I agree. The School should not be responsible for the student healthcare. The parents should be. If the parents cannot afford it, they should apply for loans or assistance, not rely on the Government (aka Obama’s slush fund care) to do it.
A HUGE percentage of what the Federal Government does today is UNCONSTITUTIONAL.
Report Post »The Federal Government is illegally putting restrictions on our freedoms. The only way to fix this is to put good people in at the local level and work up. Putting any member of the DNR or the RNC in the Oval Office is suicide for America. WAKE UP.
Bum thrower
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 8:57amhow much is that ‘free ****’ costing you?
Report Post »commonsensefreethinker1
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 9:04amWhat do you think of your all mighty ruler now? Ignorant people bother me!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 9:30am“Guilford College reportedly requires all of their students to have some form of health insurance. Students can stay on their parents’ insurance, buy their own or utilize the school’s insurance plan.” First, its not reportedly, it is required (i.e. a mandate) that students have some form of health insurance. And by the way there are health insurance mandates at most colleges and universities. Second, most of the student health insurance covers visits to the university based health services and very little more. Third, an analysis of the real cost impact of the Affordable Health Care Act should include the provision that allows individuals to stay on their parents health care insurance. Which of course reduces the need for student health care insurance. But hey why let Truth get in the way of the Agenda.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 10:34amYea, just walk in to some clinic and try to claim free health care. My insurance was filed wrong, and I didn’t get it free, I got a bill for $400 more than I owed. My health care I normally pay for by the year, but right before this monstrosity got the stamp of approval as a tax from the Supreme Court, my insurance insisted I pay only a quarter. AS SOON as it was upheld, I got a notice that my premium went up. 17% more. Supposedly there’s a part in the bill that allows people who make 400% of poverty (no, that’s not a typo, 400% of poverty) can qualify for the government to pay part of their bill.
Report Post »PilgrimStuckInBizarroWorld
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 10:38am@exrepub: The school doesn’t pay for the insurance it is the kids and their parents who pay for it. This info needs to get out to all the college students and their parents who are paying for school.
Report Post »ecbuck
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 12:11pm@jrook who said “Which of course reduces the need for student health care insurance.”
But it increases the cost of the parent’s insurance. There is no free lunch. Obamacare mandates coverage for items people may not want or need. They have to pay for them anyway whether it is private insurance, parent’s insurance or school insurance. But then don’t let the facts get in the way of your Agenda.
Report Post »Weiners Wiener
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 12:48pmEXREPUBLISHEEP — Shut up. It’s a *private* school. Those students aren’t getting a dime off of you. Their healthcare plans were group plans put in place by the school and funded by the tuition dollars those students and their parents are paying. It’s exactly the same thing you probably get right now at your job. Punk.
Report Post »goldmankc
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 1:37pmthe gov’t looted the postal service, social security, and medicare, now they are broke and the gov’t needs more “free” money so they create gov’t healthcare. makes sense?
Report Post »FANGS
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:21pmI’m glag they make themselves so known. They make real easy communist targets. The American People ar America’s last defense, and our 2nd ammendment. Just Remember it’s allways been the Conservatives that back up our Cops and Military. We’re on your side. The UN troops will be our biggest hurdle. But then, Who‘s Economy hasn’t Obama Ruined?
Report Post »needmoinfo
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:08pmWow. The last election was 4 years ago. Maybe today‘s students won’t be so easy once they start school and find out what the medical insurance will cost. They can indoctrinate all they want. Most of us are ruled by our wallets.
Report Post »pavepaws
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:02pmLol
Report Post »762x51
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:59pmHow’s that Rope and Chains workin out for ya?
Report Post »Ruger_45
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 12:26amgood one!
Report Post »Lordcsmith
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:50pmThat’s why the economy went into the funk that it did. With no company certain about what they were going to pay, thy had to get REAL conservative on their budgets, which means no hiring. Now, they are just sitting here waiting until the legislation goes into place. It’s not rocket science.
Report Post »jeduhi
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:39pmI go to a State University in NC and my insurance is going from $398 last semester to $709 this semester.
I was feeling lethargic last semester and scheduled a doctor’s appointment for which they told me I would need a physical. Long story short the insurance refused to pay for what they deemed a “routine physical” did not pay for any of my lab work, and I’m left footing the entire bill. They did not pay anything and raised my per semester cost. Thank you Obamacare!
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:22pmWell duh…..We who actually read the bill have been saying this for 2 1/2 years…..and fyi – Sarah was also right about the death panels
but gee, that is right in line with the party of death and taxes – the demonrats – baby and grandma killers
Report Post »matamoros
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:39pmTypical educated idiots! They think they’re so smart and enlightened, but don‘t realize they’re getting screwed!
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:58pmStand by, there’s more of this train coming down the tracks.
Report Post »Freedom Hound
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:22pmHow’s that free health care working out for you?
Report Post »Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:13pmWonder how that Hope and Change Communism is working for ya Guilford College?
Report Post »watashbuddyfriend
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:44pmBlacky, blackie, GIMMIE, gimmy!
Report Post »football lady
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:39pmReality will hit hard for those who worship Obama.
Report Post »13th Imam
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:37pmCool
Report Post »762x51
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 11:11pmGood, I hope it bleeds them to death.
Report Post »grams09
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:37pmHow do you like that free birth control now?
Report Post »Cemoto78
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:59pmYou’ll have to wait till next week to find out when Sandra Fluke tells us at the Democratic Convention. History will not be at all favorable to Obama or his corrupt buddies.
Report Post »BeeDee
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:33pmI read the signs that say “Protect women’s health” and can‘t help thinking that that’s what the muslims say when they restrict women from driving, going to school, leaving the home without a male family-member escort, mutilate them (ritualistically, of course), behead them (to stop them from becoming westernized), or stone them because their husband didn’t like dinner. It’s for their own good, doncha know?
Report Post »the_truth_or_not
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 9:36pmBee Dee,
Report Post »Your post is good and explanatory of Radical Muslims. Although it would have been more suited in the story of the DNC allowing a Radical Muslim in a 2hr prayer during their convention.
soybomb315_II
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:32pmyea, i wont vote for anyone who believes in individual healthcare mandates
Report Post »502_eagle
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:23pmThis students were warned that “FREE” isn’t free. The youth are all gonna see their rates rise.
Report Post »deano24
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:51pmNot really. They will choose to be covered under their parent’s plan.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:23pmNow the roosters are coming home to perch; we have seen nothing yet.
Report Post »bikerdogred1
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:23pmIt‘s free It’s free and It’s for me,let some one else pay.That sounds like a good deal to me.
Report Post »Eric_The_Red_State
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:20pmHere’s my impersonation of an Obama supporter
“I love things as long as someone else pays for them”
Report Post »BBow
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:13pmGood stuff, its too bad this will not hit people who can feel the money leave the pocket. I have a feeling this is a conservative school. No chance these comments would be allowed in a more progressive environment.
Report Post »dmforman
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:38pmNope! It’s a liberal Quaker school.
Report Post »BigAlSouth
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:11pmGuilford College is a small liberal arts college operated by the Society of Friends (Quakers) in Greensboro, NC.
I spent four of the best years of my life there.
Report Post »Seabass82
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 10:18pmThat doesn’t change the fact that it is a very liberal school…I played hockey in the quad at Bryan Hall as a kid growing up. They do have a beautiful campus!
Report Post »barber2
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:05pmI sure would love to know who paid for all of those signs. Especially love the ones that were Professionally made to look home-made. And that “ Forward” slogan which was the name of an early Lenin newspaper. Connect the dots…. Occidental College ( no records released by Obama ) which was nick-named the “ Moscow of southern California ”…mentored by Davis….parents meet in a Russian language class during the Communist era! Connect the dots…
Report Post »Stoic one
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:05pmAnd obama is singing:”We’ve only just begun”
Report Post »repairsea
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:05pmObama said condoms were expensive. I guess we are going to find out how expensive.
Report Post »BeeDee
Posted on August 27, 2012 at 8:29pmSo expensive, just forget about them. Besides, abortions are paid for by Big Daddy. FREEEEEEEEE!
Report Post »GaryInTheMiddle
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 4:40am@Ketter; you should hold back.
Report Post »Zipit
Posted on August 28, 2012 at 9:26amIt’s the same old, typical liberal crap! You only pay attention and give a flying rats a$$ when something hits you in your own pocketbook! Then, the predictable response is, blame someone else and”, who’s going to pay for this”? PATHETIC
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