Out of network: Students grapple with health insurance coverage at Ohio State

Bella Czajkowski
Thu, 11 Feb 2021 02:37:21 +0000
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Health insurance is a headache, so much so that students may avoid health care on campus entirely. Two Ohio State students opted to travel home to California and Washington, D.C. for costly care to save a few thousand dollars per year on the student health insurance fee.