YEAH, STUDENT HEALTH COVERAGE BLOWS

From my own experience, it's cost too much and provides too little, especially considering that many students don't have much $$$ after paying for tuition, books, fees and rent. The employees do much, much better despite being older and presumably more of a risk.

The recent to-do over contraception coverage for students is just another example of employees getting preferential treatment (h/t Atrios):

Catholic university in Ohio ends birth-control coverage
By Stephanie Simon

Tue Apr 3, 2012 6:50pm EDT

(Reuters) - Xavier University, one of the oldest Roman Catholic colleges in the United States, will cut off birth-control coverage for its employees in July, a move that has divided faculty members and students on the Cincinnati campus.

The controversy prompted Xavier President Michael Graham, a Jesuit priest, to review the health insurance plan offered to the university's 935 employees. Graham announced this week in a letter to the faculty that the plan will cease to cover contraception on July 1.

Several other prominent Catholic universities in the U.S., including Georgetown, DePaul and Fordham, offer contraceptive coverage as part of employee insurance plans.