Reuters : reported that Stripping Americans of health insurance could be deadly: study

For every 10,000 people who enrolled in the health insurance program, 13 lives were saved, the study found. "Being uninsured is deadly," co-author Dr. Steffie Woolhandler, a Hunter College health policy professor, said in a phone interview. Based on findings from a variety of large studies, Americans without health insurance faced 40 percent higher odds of dying during the study periods than the privately insured, the report published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found. "Even before this study, members of Congress – and the American public who elected them – already have a strong personal sense of the value of health insurance," he said in an email. It would be unethical to study the question by randomly insuring some Americans and not others.

You could be paying too much for your college kid's health insurance

But before you rush to opt out, keep in mind that there are pros and cons to both choices — college health plans and parent health plans. Questions to ask about student health insurance plansIs the plan a "self-insured" plan or is it run by an insurance company? College health plans administered by insurance companies have to meet minimum coverage standards set by the ACA. Student health insurance plan prices vary drastically, from $1,750 a year at American University, for example, to $4,103 a year at George Washington University. Most four-year universities offer a student health Insurance Plan, and many automatically enroll students in the plan.

Senate Republicans' claim of saving individual health insurance markets could prove hollow

[Complete live coverage: Senate health-care bill]Even ending the penalty "is a very big deal," said Larry Levitt, senior vice president of the Kaiser Family Foundation. "Whether those people at the low end really [would] get enough help to buy insurance is a different question."Juliet Eilperin contributed to this report. The bill would defang the ACA's requirement that most Americans carry health coverage by erasing penalties for being uninsured. The long-term uncertainty never was broached Thursday as Senate GOP leaders revealed their health-care plan to fellow senators. Federal financial help in affording insurance premiums also would differ in the Senate plan.


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