I’ve started to track those colleges that are having to give up offering healthcare to their students because of Obamacare. I won’t catch them all, or even a large percentage of them, but I am seeing more notices:
- Bethany College
- Franciscan University Drops Student Health Plans Over ObamaCare
- Florida Catholic school considers dropping student health plan, on heels of Ohio decision
- Lenoir-Rhyne University
- University of Puget Sound
- Cornell College in Mount Vernon, Iowa
Now add another – Geneva College (reformatted):
Dr. Ken Smith, president of Geneva College in western Pennsylvania, intends to pay a fine to the federal government rather than comply with the federal government’s mandate that forces institutions to provide abortion-inducing drugs, contraception and sterilization to its employers. The mandate, scheduled to be effective on Aug. 1, could financially penalize institutions for not complying with Department of Health and Human Services demands that blatantly undermine religious freedom. Placed in a challenging situation, this small, Presbyterian, liberal-arts college located in Beaver Falls, PA, will likely be forced to drop health-care insurance altogether, resulting in steep fines.
“We would rather pay the fine than violate our conscience,” Smith said in an interview with Scribe.
That fine is hefty. Assuming the mandate stands, “There will be a significant financial impact on the college because we cannot be compelled to take action that violates our conscience. If [the fines] are over half a million dollars, we’d have to find a way to absorb that.”