"It is unacceptable that 20 percent of college students are uninsured and that some college health plans exclude coverage for preventive services and limit payments for benefits such as prescription drugs,” Senator Edward M. Kennedy (D.-Mass.), Chairman of the Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, said in a statement on the report Friday. “Students must be healthy to learn, and guaranteeing that they have quality health coverage should be a priority for our nation."
Rarely has anyone in Washington noticed that we have got a health care crisis in this country and suggests that the Federal government be part of the solution.
But if it’s a problem on a college campus, then the Government insists that the college fix it, it becomes an unfunded mandate, and then the same politicians will whine about the high cost of college. They’ll do nothing about making sure that us students have health insurance for the first 18 years of our lives and they will not do anything about making sure we have it in college.
So now in addition to voter registration and file sharing and who can even remember what else, we have got another problem left up to the new generation of college students to solve all by ourselves.
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