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PLATFORM / TIMELINE
We need better healthcare:
• Vision/dental care
• Improved out-of-area coverage
• Improved quality of care: decrease wait times for accessing specialists
• Mental health coverage: improve response time, eliminate 12 visit limit on coverage
• Prescription coverage: lower/eliminate buy-in fee; eliminate upper limit
to coverage; limit the co-pay
• Medical leave: extend beyond one semester
• Paid sick days
History in Brief:
Fall 1998 |
GESO WINS FREE HEALTHCARE. The administration announces that it will provide free health care coverage for all Ph.D. students. It will also subsidize in full the cost of hospitalization for individual Ph.D. students and subsidize by 50% the cost of dependent hospitalization coverage, a savings of $660 for each graduate student and $1200-2000 for families.
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Fall 2001 |
More than 100 GESO members rally outside Dean’s office to protest the University’s treatment of a Chinese graduate student suffering from cancer and the lack of a medical leave policy for graduate students.
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Fall 2003 |
GESO ratifies platform with healthcare plank. One of the chief concerns is that the price paid for family health care has now risen back to $3000, the same amount paid by a graduate teacher's family before the 50% subsidy was created in 1998.
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Spring 2008 |
GESO launches a new healthcare survey. Click here to participate! |
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