This bill will create “Michelle’s Law” named after a Plymouth State University student Michelle Morse. Michelle was just 22 when she was diagnosed with colon cancer and soon “discovered that she could not take a leave of absence and still afford chemotherapy.” Morse died in November of 2005.
This new law will affect a very small minority of young adults, about 5 to 10 people per year, “who qualify for dependent status on their parents’ policies only because they are full-time students. State-regulated health insurers will have to keep up dependent coverage for a covered student if the student loses full-time student status because of a serious illness or injury.”
If everyone had health insurance the Morse types of tragedies would not happen. People would not need to stay in school in order to satisfy a health insurance companies rules even though they needed to go through chemotherapy. I can’t imagine the depth of grief the Morse family has gone through knowing their daughter could still be alive today if their were no strings attached to everyone being “covered” by heath insurance under any circumstances.
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