College students may need to take a couple classes on health care and reform laws.
A survey from eHealthInsurance finds that college students and recent graduates are mostly indifferent about the health reform law—likely because most don't know much about it.
Most of them—42 percent of current students and 44 percent of grads—say they will feel "indifferent" if the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is invalidated, while a quarter of them (23 percent of both current students and grads) say they will be pleased if the PPACA is ruled unconstitutional, according to the survey conducted in April by Kelton Research. A third of them say they will be disappointed if the Court strikes down the law.
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When asked about provisions of the law, most didn't know what they were. Less than six in ten recent grads (57 percent) and even fewer current students (43 percent) are aware that that the health reform law now allows them to stay on their parents' health insurance policies until age 26.
Very few recent grads (15 percent) and current students (16 percent) are aware that health reform now ensures access to more preventive medical care services at no out-of-pocket cost. Similarly few grads (14 percent) and students (16 percent) are aware that the health care reform law did away with lifetime limits on health insurance coverage for most covered services.
The one part of the bill they do know about—the individual mandate—they are unsure about.
Nearly a quarter of recent grads and 20 percent of current students say they would "not comply" with the mandate to purchase health insurance coverage if it applied to them. Among those who would comply, a slim majority think the mandate is a "good idea" (52 percent of grads, 53 percent of students) and almost half of grads (48 percent) and students (47 percent) do not consider the mandate a good idea.
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