University’s Defense of Changes to Student Health Insurance Based on False Claims and Manufactured Deficit Amherst, MA – Information recently received by the UMass Graduate Employee Organization (GEO), a unit of UAW Local 2322, demonstrates that the University of Massachusetts Amherst has based its defense of massive changes to the Student Health Insurance plan on false claims and manufactured deficits. On August 1, 2011, the … Continue reading
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Co-Insurance is NO Insurance!!! The UMass Administration has gutted student health insurance coverage for all undergraduate and graduate students. Beginning on August 1st, the UMass Administration is changing compulsory student health insurance from 100% coverage for most medical procedures to 85% coverage. This new plan will push more costs onto women, students with chronic health conditions, students with families, international students and low-income students. Women … Continue reading
Donna Y Letter to GEO petition signers 7-8-2011 … Continue reading
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Kay Lazar of the Boston Globe wrote this story on the proposed changes to the UMass Amherst Student Health Insurance Plan, featuring GEO member Rachel Bolus. UMass students say new health insurance plan unfair: 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. The … Continue reading