Coed Calamities

This week, financial writer Christine Larson wrote about the monetary risk families take when they send their kids off to college. I'm not talking about skyrocketing tuition, in an article in US News and World Report she explained the costs to a family to transport a sick or injured child to your hometown hospital for treatment. Without a membership plan like Air Ambulance Card, air ambulance transports can cost tens of thousands of dollars, and that's money that must be paid BEFORE the patient boards the plane!
The article looks at three services, one that is more expensive than Air Ambulance Card, and one that allows the company, not the parents, to choose whether the student will be flown home.
Parents don't have a lot of say about what a kid does once he or she goes off to school... this is one choice you probably don't want to leave up to someone else.