As you may know, U of R is conducting a full review of the student health insurance plan this year. This review was initiated by President Seligman in response to the concerns graduate students raised about our health coverage at last year’s town hall meeting. Since then, UHS has conducted a focus group and conducted a survey of the graduate students. 23% of graduate students responded to the survey.

UHS has compiled the needs and wants of students who use the health insurance plan and is currently requesting proposals from a number of different insurance companies. They expect that they will be able to start comparing the different proposals early in the new year. It sounds like UHS and President Seligman are going to work together to improve our coverage while keeping costs managable. Any changes to our coverage would take effect for the 2010-2011 academic year.

If I get any more updates, I’ll pass them along.
~Kris, Advocacy Chair