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Originally Posted by vienna
You mean kind of like the way the GOP Religious Right in Congress know they can't win any up-or-down vote on thier issues so, in predictable Fringe Right fashion, they try to attach their issues as amendments to bills having nothing to do with their pet peeves?...  |
Both sides do this vienna - calling out "the other side" when both do it (and neither should) simply shows you to be the same as bubblehead - a partisan hack....
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Originally Posted by Takeda Shingen
Georgetown University's student health programs cost the taxpayer $0.00 US. They are subsidised from tuition and donor contributions. Limbaugh's argument is, therefore, rendered a moot and inaccurate ad hominem.
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OK - let me take issue here Takeda. The cost for the required insurance is $1895.00 a year per student. (source:
http://studentaffairs.georgetown.edu...teraccept.html)
Most students are required to participate: (Source:
http://studentaffairs.georgetown.edu/insurance/ )
It is added to their "student account" - you know the same "student account" where financial aid - such as FAFSA gained Pell Grants get deposited. Those are federal funds - paid for by the taxpayer. So are student loans - though they are (at least in theory) repayed. I found nothing on Georgetown's site that indicated that the insurance costs were defrayed using donor contributions. Could you show me where that is indicated?
Every piece of information shows that universities charge the student - and the student uses money in their "account" to pay such charges. Given that most students qualify for federal grants - again, paid for by taxpayers - the claim that health insurance for college students costs taxpayers "0.00" is inaccurate.