April, 2010

Update (5/25/2010):  SHOUTAmerica's efforts sparked Connecticut's Attorney General, Richard Blumenthal, to investigate these unfair practices.  We will keep you posted as we learn more.

In response to the recent warning by the New York Attorney General, Andrew M. Cuomo, about "the troubling practices uncovered in his investigation of the school-sponsored student health insurance industry," SHOUTAmerica has asked all states attorneys general to examine these practices on a state by state basis. 

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"College-sponsored health plans often pay out far less in benefits than they collect in premiums, skirting state regulations and shortchanging students, according to an investigation by the New York attorney general’s office." Read more

April 5 (Bloomberg) -- When Brian Howell, a 23-year-old Nashville, Tennessee, guitar player, feared a lingering cold had turned into an infection last year, he decided against seeing a doctor. It would have cost too much, he said.

“I decided just to drink a lot of tea and take some Mucinex,” Howell said. “It turned out OK -- thankfully.”

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Under the health care overhaul, young adults who buy their own insurance will carry a heavier burden of the medical costs of older Americans — a shift expected to raise insurance premiums for young people when the plan takes full effect.

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