http://cuindependent.com/2009/10/03/why-cu-students-have-healthcare/ University of Colorado Daily Student Newspaper Site in Boulder: Breaking News, Sports, Entertainment, Opinion Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:17:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://cuindependent.com/2009/10/03/why-cu-students-have-healthcare/comment-page-1/#comment-463 James Boyle Mon, 05 Oct 2009 14:47:13 +0000 http://cuindependent.com/?p=6092#comment-463 Doesn't college cost enough already without having to pay double for health insurance? If the 15,700 CU students who already have private health insurance were able to utilize that insurance at the campus health center, it would be a win-win, as the health center would collect incremental revenue from insurance companies, as opposed to from the pockets of the student and their parents. A closed system such as that which CU currently employs is simply wrong. It is a potential violation of both the letter and spirit of the law, as the school is essentially saying, "we only accept one form of insurance and it happens to be our own." Translation: unfair trade practice. Suggestion: open up the campus health center so that it accepts all forms of insurance. Doesn’t college cost enough already without having to pay double for health insurance? If the 15,700 CU students who already have private health insurance were able to utilize that insurance at the campus health center, it would be a win-win, as the health center would collect incremental revenue from insurance companies, as opposed to from the pockets of the student and their parents. A closed system such as that which CU currently employs is simply wrong. It is a potential violation of both the letter and spirit of the law, as the school is essentially saying, “we only accept one form of insurance and it happens to be our own.” Translation: unfair trade practice. Suggestion: open up the campus health center so that it accepts all forms of insurance.

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