ObamaCare Nightmare: Insurance Costs Up 54% at UNC and 95% at Hippie Haven UNC-Ashville...

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Colleges and Universities: paving the way to poverty via government subsidies and government mandated insurance. 


The College Fix:

Last year, a tuition hike at the University of North Carolina provoked intense debate among students, but an increase of a far greater magnitude for students who are covered by the UNC system Pearce & Pearce (now Chartis) health insurance plan hasn’t received nearly the same attention.

Dollar-for-dollar, tuition at UNC is going up $695 or 9.9 percent for academic year 2012-2013 while costs for the health insurance plan are increasing $497 or 54.0 percent for the same period. UNC is by no means alone—rates at UNC-Asheville will shoot up 95.0 percent from last year. This increase will affect the 5,895 students on the plan at UNC and the approximately 64,000 students on the plan system-wide.

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NC Board of Governors Forces Students to Buy Health-Care Including Elective Abortions...

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Oh what ObamaCare has wrought. Suddenly bureaucrats feel justified in forcing individuals to engage in commerce beyond their scope of interest.

And Polifrog thought school enrollment fees were onerous enough, now they pile on more...

Via studentsforlife.org:

Students for Life of America has discovered that this fall the North Carolina Board of Governors is requiring all students who are enrolled in a University of North Carolina public institution to have health insurance.

Students who do not already have private health insurance are required to buy a state selected policy from Pearce & Pearce, Inc. This mandated policy covers up to $500 toward elective abortions and has 80% PPO coverage for elective abortions.

The Pearce & Pearce policy costs students $744 per year or $375 per semester. The State of North Carolina will not be paying into the policy; rather, the students who are required to purchase the insurance will be required to pay the entire cost.

As a result, North Carolina students will be forced to pay for elective abortions, regardless of their personal views on the issue.

On what grounds does the NC Board of Governors have the authority to force adults in the college system to buy health-care? By what distortion of reality do they feel forcing individuals to pay for the murder of children is within their purview or even within the realm of moral?

As a former student of UNC-CH Polifrog has had a hate-hate relationship with the UNC administration, so this should come as no surprise to Polifrog, but it does.

During Polifrog's stint in Chapel Hill tuition per semester was roughly $750(tuition only). Now the administration requires nearly that amount over the span of a year for a product wholly unrelated to education. The Board of Governors is forcing a whole generation into school loan servitude with their tin ear to cost and lack of respect for liberty and personal choice.

One can only hope a quick back-down on this policy is forthcoming.



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