September 26, 2007

College Student Health Care!

A major fallback that all financial institutions, and government agencies have had, in regards to student aid, student financing, student loan and even student jobs is the total lack of attention that has occurred with student health care. Do you realize that the largest population of uninsured Americans are people aged 18 to 24.Today there are more than 48 million Americans that have little or no health insurance, and those numbers are expected to go up by 20% in the next 10 years. Of those people that are uninsured over 10% are college students.Now, that I have you thinking! Lets think about why this happens? If we know that this is true, and we also know that health insurance insurance is our biggest problem, then why don’t we do something to solve the problem of the largest population of uninsured?What causes this Age Group to be Uninsured? The main reason that young college students are not covered by insurance, is because they are too old for their parents coverage, or in some cases their parents don’t have insurance. Another reason is because people in this age group are going to school, and can only afford to work part time, and […]

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