Obamacare: Sticker shock as premiums rise

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What’s more important? Affordable higher education or health care coverage?

That’s the question lawmakers are weighing as they consider controversial legislation that would eliminate New Jersey’s requirement that all college students have health insurance in order to attend class.

College officials are pushing lawmakers to kill the law because the implementation of Obamacare is driving up the cost of the basic health insurance plans offered to uninsured students by their schools. The jump in premiums — from a few hundred dollars this school year to more than $1,700 next year in some cases — could force some students to drop out.

http://www.New Jersey.com/news/index.ssf/2013/01/lawmakers_consider_nixing_mand.html