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Senator: Insurers Dodging Student Health Plan Reform

Inside Higher Ed

May 23, 2011

Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), chair of the Senate Commerce Committee, on Friday sent a letter to HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius that reiterated his call for protecting students with pre-existing conditions and guarding against dollar limits on care, and for avoiding unexpected dropped coverage because of clerical errors. But he also went to great lengths to call out insurance companies that say student health plans should not be subject to that law because their market is a volatile one with unique administrative costs.

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