Obama called “Most Biblically-Hostile U.S. President” Love Is Kind – part 1 (1Cor 13.4)

Catholic university drops student health insurance citing ObamaCare

Comments Off

Posted by Alan Burrow on May 16, 2012 in In the News

Franciscan University, a 2000 student Catholic university in Steubenville, Ohio (40 miles west of Pittsburgh) says it has been forced to drop its student health care program due to the mandatory contraception policy and the increase costs associated with ObamaCare. The university, which Young America’s Foundation rated as one of the top 10 conservative colleges in the U.S., stated that it will not participate in a plan that “requires us to violate the consistent teachings of the Catholic Church on the sacredness of human life.” The school also cited a requirement increasing the maximum coverage amount to $100,000, which the school says will make premiums skyrocket. According to a university official, the cost of the students’ basic $600 policy would double this fall and triple in 2013. Those increases are due to ObamaCare, according to the school’s insurance provider. “This is putting people in a position where they are having to choose between their faith and their morality, and now an unjust cost,” said university vice president of advancement Mike Hernon. “These sorts of regulations from the government are forcing our hand in a way that’s really wrong.” The school has advised its students that the health care insurance previously available through the school will no longer be available beginning with the Fall Semester of 2012.