Catholic University Drops Student Insurance – Says Costs Will Double Under Obamacare
Posted by Jim Hoft on Wednesday, May 16, 2012, 4:48 AM
Back in 2009 and 2010 Barack Obama repeatedly promised Americans,
“If you like your plan, you will be able to keep your plan.”
But after the bill was rammed through Congress and signed into law Barack Obama immediately started to backtrack.
Yesterday, Franciscan University of Steubenville announced it would discontinue its student plan. The university said Obamacare would double the costs for students.
Todd Starnes reported:
The Franciscan University of Steubenville has announced it will drop health insurance coverage for students because the cost of the plan is expected to double under Obamacare. The university also took issue with a federal mandate that their insurance plan provide free birth control.
The small Catholic school in Ohio posted a statement on their website stating they “will not participate in a plan that requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life.”
The university told Fox News that in addition to dropping its student insurance coverage, it will no longer require students to carry insurance. The university said it would maintain their current health insurance coverage for employees.
”This is putting people in a position where they are having to choose between their faith and their morality — and now an unjust cost,” said Mike Hernon, vice president of advancement. “These sorts of regulations from the government are forcing our hand in a way that’s really wrong.”
Hernon said students must have insurance – either through their parent’s policy or through the university’s basic plan. The plan currently costs approximately $600 per year. However, Hernon said their health care provider informed them that under Obamacare, the policy would double in price to $1,200 and the following year it would triple.
“We couldn’t believe the price (increase),” he told Fox News. “We had them go back and reconfirm it. They said it was dictated by coverage limits that were released by the Obama administration.”
“At the end of the day, it’s the students who are hurt by this,” he said.
Hat Tip Gini
For the record… Destroying the private health insurance industry was always the goal.
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Militant Conservative commented:
All by design to force the
Public to gubmnt insurance.
Evil and more evil = Obama
squeaky commented:
i wonder how this will work out.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/04/us/xavier-university-to-drop-coverage-for-birth-control-for-workers.html?_r=1
mg4us commented:
As Joe Wilson said to Obama: “You Lie!”
democraps suck commented:
everything that comes out of the mooslums mouth is a lie designed to kill america
squeaky commented:
OT i know but we’ll end up here in a 1 2 3……or was it mentioned earlier while i snoozed.
[But as the week progressed, a developing bombshell story got buried under President Obama’s gay marriage announcement. Not only is the supposed CIA asset not a CIA asset at all, but the entire operation was exposed prematurely and the double-agent’s life was immediately threatened by an intelligence leak that very well may have come out of the White House for political gain.]
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2012/05/14/bombshell-al-qaeda-infiltrator-was-working-for-brits-not-cia-cover-blown-for-election-year-politics/
Big Kahuna commented:
You can almost hear Obama in the Whitehouse laughing in our faces saying…My plan is working just like we planned. When the captialist system I despise works as it should the companies and univversities will all have to drop coverage to compete in the world they will be forced to beg Uncle Sam for coverage. Their is no doubt in my mind.
southernsue commented:
please LORD, let us get rid of this horrible evil man and his evil ilk!
be at the polls and vote him and all the democrats out!
these democrats voted lock step with this evil, putting all Americans in a downward spiral.
mg4us commented:
Catholic University Dean to Obama (borrowing from a SNL skit):
Barack you ignorant white-half slut. . .
Bad enough your Kenyan Dad and his dad practiced Polygamy
When it comes to gay marriage, you keep your Pole-away-from-me
(and according to Biden you have a Big Stick. . he promises)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0O2SpNS4944
dylan commented:
As usual, thanks for NOTHING, Barry!
1RedBeard commented:
Wait… this can’t be… am I to believe that our president [gasp] LIED to us? Say it ain’t so, Joe.
Limousine Barry commented:
This is more proof of my economic miracles!
Americans are almost bankrupt. They can’t even afford 0bamaCare! And, for those you can, I suggest you get end-of-life counseling for you and your stupid children.
Sure, 0bamaCare sucks – that is why my cronies and I don’t have it! Ha ha, what do you expect from a person that really sucks.
By the way, I don’t like Catholics. I learned to hate them in Pakistan. May your gas costs go higher until you are bankrupt. Good Day
JKB commented:
That is by design. As the Justices questioned the SG about, the plan was to really jack up rates on the healthy and young to pay for the old and infirm. Who’s healthier than the majority of early 20 somethings?
Oh and don’t forget Obama feels the law should not be judged by the SCOTUS since it was passed by Congress and signed by him.
bigL commented:
Full-speed ahead. Even if Supremes scotch it toatlly, Obama care willbe crammed into Medicare and full speed ahead. Companies all over the USa willbe like the Catholic U dumping the coverageas fast as they can.
We will never get rid of Obama care.
squeaky commented:
that ole’ soothsayer barney frank.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QLm9t9j-qKM
olm commented:
Good, I hope more follow.
I’m also waiting for college enrollment to take a nosedive.
I understand thoroughly Obama’s need to destroy current systems but it is also waking people the hell up.
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