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Student Health Plans Merit Special Treatment Under the New Health-Care Law, Colleges and Insurers Say

Chronicle of Higher Education

April 13, 2011

The American Council on Education - which had said before the rules were released that subjecting student plans to the new federal law would jeopardize colleges' ability to offer health insurance - praised the proposal for gradually increasing annual coverage limits and for allowing colleges to charge annual health fees. But final regulations should make students eligible for the federal law's tax credits for premiums, because those costs are likely to rise, ACE wrote, on behalf of several other higher-education associations.

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