Students at vaunted Cornell University are plenty smart enough to know they should not have to pay a penalty for not buying the school's health insurance if they already have coverage, but that's exactly what a new policy at the Ivy League school requires.
The $350 "health fee" for opting out of the school’s insurance plan was announced in a memo school President David Skorton posted on Cornell’s website last week, according to higher education blog The College Fix. But it is just setting in with the student body, and many attending the Ithaca, N.Y., school are not pleased. Under the Affordable Care Act, students must have insurance, but making those already covered pay an extra fee to skip the school's plan is not sitting well.
“Effective next academic year, 2015-16, we will be introducing a student health fee for those not enrolled in the Cornell Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP),” read the memo.
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7 comments:
Sounds like bammy care!
It's always such a laugh when liberals demand things that will be paid for with 'other people's money', only to find themselves becoming 'the other people.'
Do they think the funding for these programs just falls out of the sky?
Go ahead and FORCE people into Obamacare.
Interesting precedent, eh?
Lol screw them.
Obama "transforming"... HaHa!
Welcome to old rehashed Marxism!
These kids don't have a clue what's waiting for them in the "real world."
Until age 26 these kids are covered by their parents' health care plan, unless the parents pull the plug. This fee is bull excrement, nothing more than padding the college's income.
Pretty soon our grade school systems will do the same. They're coming for you kids people!
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