Missouri Hunger Strike Student Is Spoiled Rich Boy

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http://www.stltoday.com/lifestyles/...cle_20630c03-2a68-5e63-9585-edde16fe05f3.html

This thing just keeps getting better and better. The so-called "grad student" who went on a hunger strike to demand the ouster of the President of the U of Missouri knows a thing or two about privilege. White privilege, black privilege, rich privilege. His father is an executive VP of Union Pacific Railroad and made over $8 mill in 2014. It turns out the young man is more or less a professional student and has been lolling around the campus for seven years. No doubt he felt unsafe the entire time, or maybe he just had trouble finding parking for his Beemer.

I find it funny that the moron football thugs put their own meager futures at risk for him. If their coach had any integrity, he would have dismissed them immediately and they could have turned to careers handing out towels at a health club. Now of course they are all civil rights heroes and we know the movie is coming soon. I suppose the underachieving coach will be unfireable now as well.

Ironically, the best known player in recent times, gay trailblazer Michael Sams, came out ( did you see what I did there) and said he supported the now-ousted president and thought he was a very nice man.
 
Similar to the protest leaders during the 60's. Spoiled rich kids with nothing better to do. This one happens to have a darker complexion than those of that era, but the game is still the same.
 
I heard this morning he was protesting the loss of his health insurance.

He lost insurance when he became a grad student... per Obamacare.
 
He may be that old already. He is a professional student, like they have in latin america and europe. Spoiled little rich boy with no skills and nothing to do.
 
this article is older than this news...

http://www.thecollegefix.com/post/23818/


Obamacare strikes again: Missouri grad students lose health insurance subsidies
JENNIFER KABBANY - FIX EDITOR •AUGUST 17, 2015
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Remember how the Affordable Care Act was supposed to be so great for everyone? Yeah, it still sucks.

The feds view grad students as “employees” and thus they are subject to the rules and regulations of Obamacare. With that, a bunch of University of Missouri grad students have lost their health insurance subsidies.

KOMU reports “MU said it can no longer pay for graduate students’ health insurance because of changes in federal health care policy under the Affordable Health Care Act.”

“MU said the IRS considers graduate students as employees of the university rather than students because they provide research and teaching assistance. The Affordable Care Act prohibits employers from giving employees money specifically to buy insurance under the individual market.”

“If the university does not comply with ACA standards, it could be fined $100 per day per student by the IRS,” KOMU pointed out.

As The College Fix has previously reported, Obamacare is no boon to young people or campus life: “Those who have seen their paychecks shrink as a result of the Affordable Care Act include students who work on campus at restaurants, bookstores or gyms, teaching assistants, Residence Advisers, officer workers, student journalists, and a variety of other workers, such as part-time maintenance crews and groundskeepers. Educators’ work hours have also been cut due to the mandate, including part-time instructors and adjunct professors.”

RELATED: Obamacare Makes Me A Part-Time Campus Worker In Name Only

And this is not the first time Missouri young people specifically have been screwed by the Affordable Care Act (a misnomer if ever there was one): Obamacare hiked insurance rates by 411 percent for Missouri’s male millennials, it was reported last year.

That followed a report which found the Obamacare mandate could force many grad students into poverty.

The bottom line is this program was billed as a way to make health insurance more affordable for young adults, and it has done just the opposite. Young people continue to lose work and health benefits over it, and their premiums are exponentially higher now. It’s a national nightmare.
 
http://www.campusreform.org/?ID=6743


Mizzou grad students lose health insurance thanks to Obamacare

  • The university canceled the students' insurance because of an IRS ruling.
  • The ruling prevents the school from subsidizing students' insurance.
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The University of Missouri (UM) told its graduate students on August 14 that it would no longer be providing subsidies for the students’ insurance coverage because of a recent IRS interpretation of the Affordable Care Act, more commonly known as Obamacare.

In a letter sent to the graduate students, the university explained that the Obamacare “prohibits businesses from providing employees subsidies specifically for the purpose of purchasing health insurance from individual market plans.”

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The IRS, according to the university, is treating the university’s student insurance plan as an “individual market plan,” which thus prohibits the university from subsidizing the students’ health insurance.

The university’s Friday announcement left graduate students in a bind, as their plans were set to expire on Saturday.

Missouri explained on its website that university officials waited until the last minute to inform students because they “hoped the national groups lobbying on [their] behalf would motivate the IRS to issue an alternate ruling.”

Many of the university’s graduate students took to Twitter to voice their displeasure with the university’s decision.

Josh Bolton, Missouri PhD. student in Political Communication, tweeted at Missouri Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin to ask why the university’s decision doesn’t constitute “a breach of contract since [the students’] offer letters stated fully funded health insurance.”

Chancellor Loftin did not appear to respond to Bolton’s question.

Mike Horton, a PhD. student in contemporary American fiction, tweeted that “The obvious response is for [Missouri] grad students to unionize.”

Even politicians got in on the action.Missouri State Representative Kip Kendrick (D-45) tweeted that he is “[t]rying to get answers and figure out what the heck is going on.” Rep. Kendrick later tweetedthat many of his “friends [and] constituents are affected” by the university’s decision.

Clayton Coffman, a PhD. student in the Plant, Insect, and Microbial Science program, told Campus Reform that [m]any students, and their families, depend on the health insurance MU was subsidizing.”

“All of the graduate students I know were promised health coverage when they were given their offers to attend here,” Coffman continued.

Moreover, Coffman said, this is just the latest roadblock the university has placed in the way of graduate students.

“Recently MU dissolved the graduate school, replacing it with an administrative unit not able to represent graduate student needs.” Earlier in the school year, Coffman said, the university pulled tuition waivers from “many graduate students who don't have ‘full-time’ appointments.”

“They're systematically making it more and more difficult to go to graduate school here, even though graduate students perform the vast majority of the research which comes out of this campus.”

Coffman aired his frustration on Twitter, tweeting a warning to incoming graduate students.
 
AAAintheBeltway said:
I find it funny that the moron football thugs put their own meager futures at risk for him. If their coach had any integrity, he would have dismissed them immediately and they could have turned to careers handing out towels at a health club. Now of course they are all civil rights heroes and we know the movie is coming soon. I suppose the underachieving coach will be unfireable now as well.
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I would have revoked their scholarships.
 
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