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Student Medical Insurance Is It Enough?

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Article Overview: Owning student medical insurance from a policy specifically designed for students is obviously better than not having any insurance. However, these contracts will not cover your student as well as a typical private medical insurance contract. The benefit limitations written into these policies can leave you with a bill you cannot afford to pay.

Student Medical Insurance Is It Enough?

Owning student medical insurance from a policy specifically designed for students is obviously better than not having any insurance. However, these contracts will not cover your student as well as a typical private medical insurance contract. The benefit limitations written into these policies can leave you with a bill you cannot afford to pay.

Since most students are in their 20s, inexpensive medical insurance is probably available for your student from a major insurance carrier at a low price. You don't have to buy the bare bones policy from the university in order to buy an inexpensive contract.

You may be able to purchase affordable coverage in the private market. If your son or daughter goes to university in another state, you may have even more policies to choose from because you will have the option of using your home address or their home address on the application. You may be able to keep your child on your group insurance.

Although policies marketed as student health insurance are often more affordable than other contracts, the relatively small price differential may not justify the major difference in benefits. Please consider other alternatives before you commit your son or daughter to a policy that won't cover him or her very well.

Your daughter or son should leave college with an education, and not just high medical bills she or he cannot to pay. Illnesses keep many students from getting their degrees. It can also leave them with a large financial burden if their insurance contract doesn't provide adequate benefits.

Many student medical insurance contracts will limit what they pay for medical bills to $100,000 per year. Standard plans will typically have a lifetime benefit, but no separate annual limit. Most people not in the medical field underestimate the cost of a night or a week in a hospital bed. The $100,000 limit would not be written into the plan if some percentage of their policy holders didn't reach and exceed that limit.

Student health care insurance plans usually limit the lifetime benefit also. Most standard plans do as well, however, the benefit limits can be five time as much. Some standard medical insurance policies have no lifetime limits.

If the above weren't enough the limit on benefits is the limit on the amount of time a student is allowed to keep their coverage if he or she purchase one of the typical policies offered through their college. If a major medical event does happen, there may be lifetime medical issues.

Health insurance carriers call these preexisting conditions. A significant preexisting condition can affect your child's ability to get coverage after they are no longer eligible for their student insurance plan.

There should be contracts available to your child from major health care insurance carriers that he or she can keep until they reach 65.

Buying a student health insurance policy since it costs a little less can be a big mistake. There are very inexpensive health care insurance plans available for most in their 20s people that will not have any of the flaws mentioned above.

Be sure to weight the benefits of all your alternatives when you are offered student medical insurance from your daughter's or son's university. You should be able to find a health insurance contract without many of the flaws mentioned above. You should be able to find a health insurance plan that has not separate annual limit. You should be able to find a health insurance plan that your student can keep until he or she is eligible for Medicare.

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