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On Sept. 8, the UC Board of Regents concluded its jury trial with Aon Hewitt, which provided management consulting services to the University of California during the development of the UC Student Health Insurance Plan.
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Following months of controversy, UC Berkeley announced that it will withdraw from the systemwide UC Student Health Insurance Plan in the fall.
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In theory, the UC Student Health Insurance Plan’s benefits should outweigh its costs. But in practice, they don’t. For this reason, UC Berkeley should withdraw from the systemwide plan and revert to managing its own health coverage for its own students. SHIP was supposed to unite all UC campuses under
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In an unofficial straw poll ASUC senators unanimously indicated interest in pulling out of UC Student Health Insurance Plan and moving UC Berkeley to its own campus provided insurance.
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Life or death should not depend on one’s ability to pay. The UC Student Health Insurance Plan Advisory Board understands this. In the face of mounting public pressure from students across the university as well as public officials like UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau and Rep. Nancy Pelosi, the board
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A bill that would forbid lifetime and annual limits on certain benefits of the UC Student Health Insurance Plan passed through a California State Assembly committee with bipartisan support.
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UC Berkeley Chancellor Robert Birgeneau joined a growing group of student leaders and politicians when he urged for the lifting of coverage caps from the UC Student Health Insurance Plan in a letter signed Wednesday.
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More than 50 protesters gathered at Bancroft Way and Telegraph Avenue Wednesday afternoon before marching to the Tang Center to protest changes in UC Student Health Insurance Plan coverage.
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In recent weeks, officials who oversee the UC Student Health Insurance Program, now in place on all UC campuses, announced that the program is carrying a projected $57 million deficit and that the increased cost could very well be passed along to UC students in the form of notably higher
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Students may need to pay a steep price for administrative mismanagements that led to a $57 million projected deficit for the UC Student Health Insurance Plan over the 2010-13 plan years. If UC SHIP needs to raise premiums in order to cover its three-year shortfall, students most sorely in need
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