Blog posts tagged with "student health insurance"

  • 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.

  • May 13, 2010

    Thanks to the passage of health care reform, a record number of 3.2M college students will have the ability to remain on – or re-enroll in – their parent’s health care plan when they graduate this Spring.

    Without question, this is a positive development for both parents and graduating college students. However, there are many nuances to the coverage provisions, according to Bill Suneson, president, Next Generation Insurance (NGI) Group, which operates GradGuard.com a specialist in “right-fit” insurance for college students and insurance for new graduates.

  • 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.

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