Blog posts tagged with "student health and wellbeing"

  • July 1, 2011

    Do we ever stop paying for our kids, even after they reach adulthood? Many parents ask themselves this question, and now health insurance gets added to that list.

    Healthcare reform now lets post-college adults use their parents' health insurance, as long as the parents are willing to pay. The dependent age has been raised to 26 to cover the large number of uninsured young adults, many of whom are unemployed due to a slowly recovering economy.

  • April 22, 2010

    In previous years, around this time in April, I’ve communicated to college parents about the “gap” that a graduating senior, or student taking a year off from school, would likely face in his or her health insurance, between the time of college graduation or end of classes, and landing that first job or going back to school full time.

  • February 9, 2010

    The lives of Charles and Anne Schewe changed forever when they received a phone call with tragic news on March 27, 1996.

    During that call, Dr. and Mrs. Schewe learned that their daughter Sara, a junior at Georgetown University, had been killed in a charter bus accident on a treacherous road in India. The bus was transporting students and chaperones from the Semester at Sea program for a once-in-a-lifetime visit to the Taj Mahal. Meeting their untimely death along with Sara were two tour guides, one chaperone and four other students.

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