PAY UP, kiddo!
"UMass health plan riles students" by Kay Lazar, Globe Staff / June 28, 2011
Student leaders at the University of Massachusetts’ Amherst campus say changes in the students’ health insurance plan will unfairly hit hardest on women, low-income students, and those with mental illnesses.
Then there better not be some shooting incident by some kid that was drugged up with some pharmaceutical crap.
Related: You Screwed By UMass
But you can pay the basketball coach half-a-million bucks for a sub-.500 season and dole out huge raises to executive administration?
Is there NO ELITE ECHELON of any AmeriKan institution that is not INFECTED with GREED?
The changes, set to take effect in August, will require students to pay 15 percent of the total bill for care not received at the campus health center.
Under the new plan, students who need more than four mental health visits per year or many gynecological and obstetrics services that are not offered at the campus health care facility will be required to go to off-campus providers, and will be assessed co-insurance charges.
Students will also be required to pay 15 percent of hospital bills, X-rays, and other tests not offered on campus....
Somehow single-payer has to be better. Watch Sicko, and then pick a plan.
UMass spokesman Daniel Fitzgibbons said soaring health care costs required the university to make some tough choices....
Hearing that same sophistry out of the mouths of "educators" as well as government really leaves me feeling sick. But where am I to go for care? Can't go to UMass.
About 5,700 students, roughly a quarter of the student body, were enrolled in the health plan last year, a number that is expected to decrease now that the federal health insurance law allows young adults to stay on parents’ plans until age 26.
Yeah, you kids are in great shape. Nothing ever happens to young kids.
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Maybe you should not put your trust in UMa$$, kiddo.
Also see:
UMass Amherst head gets one more year
Robert C. Holub, the embattled University of Massachusetts Amherst chancellor who reportedly faced the possibility of being fired this month, will be given another year at most to serve as head of the flagship campus.
As if you kids cared.
So how many hundreds of thousands will he be pulling down in salary?
