No One is Off-Limits to Dems’ Healthcare Takeover As New Study Shows 600K Students At Risk of Losing Coverage

June 5, 2012

No One is Off-Limits to Tierney’s Healthcare Takeover As New Study Shows 600,000 Students At Risk of Losing Coverage
ObamaCare Continues to Burden Everyone in its Path

WASHINGTON — The consequences of John Tierney’s healthcare overhaul continue to prove disastrous as access to and affordability of care for students is the most recent example of what is at stake under the big-government takeover. Since Tierney voted to keep ObamaCare the law of the land, healthcare premiums are mounting, job creators are increasingly burdened and coverage is now further out-of-reach for many.

“It isn’t enough that the Tierney-Obama economy has provided little to no job prospects for college graduates, but now their healthcare overhaul is driving some current college students’ healthcare prices up while dropping coverage for others,” said NRCC Communications Director Paul Lindsay. “When will John Tierney stop protecting his party’s massive government takeover and end his blind allegiance to his out-of-touch party’s agenda before it seizes access to coverage from more American families?”

Thanks to regulations in Democrats’ healthcare takeover, some colleges have abandoned their health plans and some students have already started to lose their current coverage:

“Some colleges are dropping student health-insurance plans for the coming academic year and others are telling students to expect sharp premium increases because of a provision in the federal health law requiring plans to beef up coverage.”

“For those colleges that choose to keep their health-insurance plans, students may see sharply rising premiums.” (Louise Radnofsky, “Big Changes Coming in College Health Plans,” The Wall Street Journal, 6/4/2012)

A staggering 600,000 students are at risk of having access to coverage taken from them under ObamaCare:

“Around 600,000 students, about 7% of the total number of 18-to-23-year-olds in college, bought their own insurance, generally plans arranged by schools for which students pay all the premiums, the GAO study said.” (Louise Radnofsky, “Big Changes Coming in College Health Plans,” The Wall Street Journal, 6/4/2012)

Unfortunately, students are not the only people at risk of losing their current insurance due to the Democrats’ takeover of healthcare:

“A new report from the Congressional Budget Office hands critics of the health reform law a great new talking point: Under a worst-case scenario, the law could lead to 20 million people losing their employer-sponsored insurance in 2019.” (J. Lester Feder, “CBO: ACA Could Jeopardize Workplace Coverage,” Politico, 3/15/2012)

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