It?s official: Ave Maria University will no longer make available health coverage for students, according to a statement by Ave Maria President Jim Towey.
In making the announcement, available on the university?s website, Towey cited both moral objections and skyrocketing costs that are consequences of President Barack Obama?s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the associated HHS contraception mandate.
The university is also dropping the requirement that students be insured. The new policy goes into effect August 15, 2012.
Ave Maria announced that the college was recently informed by its insurance carrier that the provisions of Obamacare would require an increase in the maximum benefit per injury or illness (from $50,000 to $100,000) and that students would not only face a 66% increase in their premiums (from $839 to $1,392) but an increase in their deductibles (from $100 to $250 per policy year).
On top of that, the HHS mandate would require the university to provide coverage for contraceptives, abortifacients, and sterilization procedures, which Towey called ?an affront to our core values.? (Matthew Archbold @ Cardinal Newman Society)
This of course follows the news last week when the Franciscan University of Steubenville did the same.
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