Health insurance for college student

Sorry not had to deal with that but wanted to say if he is a college student check with the college. Many times they offer student insurance. Granted they have to go the schools health clinic or whatever they call it.

When I was in grad school dh was changing jobs. It was easier for me to get insurance through the school. Because the university I attended also had a medical school the insurance was fantastic. For every day stuff I could use the on-campus clinic and any specialist I needed to see was covered 100% as long as I saw somebody affiliated with the med school. I got pregnant with my twins while in school and they arrived 9 weeks early. They spent 5 weeks in the NICU and nearly half a million dollars in charges were covered. It was 14 years ago, so not sure how much that has changed.

Agree that you should check with the universities. D [HASH]2 would have been $900 or so a semester... that is where I would look first. Don't know how good the coverage was though.

"The University DSL goes to requires coverage. If the student is not on a parent policy, they have an option to buy a policy through the University and I believe Aetna is the provider. As others said, check with the University"
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That. I think all collges are required to do this. It might be part of Obama care? I'm not sure. But I know they DO require it. We have found though that it's quite spendy. One dd's was 1500 a semester, and the other 1000. We kept them on our policy. Just had to provide proof of coverage. I would worry about them getting out of college, and then not having a job yet..that period between, and not having insurance. KWIM? It would be cheaper just to go get a family coverage thru BCBS. That is what we did.

This is not the same thing but just FYI.

My college kids are on our insurance-it also covers them overseas.

My DD will be doing a semester in Europe in the spring and insurance is required--including to transport her back to the US if something really bad happens.

The cost including regular insurance-no deductible is $1.40 per day.  (they charge a daily rate) and she will be there for four months. 

So we are getting that also.

No idea how they can do it that cheap but I guess it's because 20-somethings are generally very healthy. 

I read the insurance info that was given to me last year at DD's college. I was just curious. It was 1400 dollars for 1 full year. It was basically a 80/20 plan with a very low deductible. It was better than what we have as a family. The deductible was under 500 dollars.