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BYU-Idaho health plan soon won’t qualify as insurance under Affordable Health Care Act

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REXBURG — Students at Brigham Young University-Idaho have been put on notice that the school’s health care plan will no longer be enough to satisfy the Affordable Health Care Act requirement of having health insurance.

Currently BYU-Idaho’s Student Health Plan meets the university’s requirement to have health insurance. Certain federal guidelines have allowed the plan to be temporarily considered minimum essential coverage under the ACA. On Sept. 14, however, the plan will no longer have this designation.

If a student’s only health coverage is the BYU-Idaho Student Health Plan, then after Sept. 14, the student or their parents may be subject to a tax penalty.

BYU-Idaho Radio Reporter Kodee O’Neill has more on this story in the clip above.

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