Word: huctw
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Harvard administrators had occasionally considered such a change in the past, but rejected the idea when consultants recommended introducing it with a higher deductible, and therefore a greater cost to patients, than the old Blue Cross plan. In the end, because HUCTW leaders have insisted on complete consultation about any large or small changes in health care offerings, we had a detailed understanding of the new plan and accepted it. As instituted, HealthFlex Blue charged an out-of-network deductible identical to the regular, annual deductible under the old Blue Cross/ Blue Shield. In other words, theoretically, no costs...
More than three years ago, HUCTW raised the subject of a gap in Harvard's health care system: the failure to allow family coverage for "domestic partners," partners or relatives who are not spouses or legally-defined dependents, but participate in a long-term commitment to living together as a family...
...Joint Committee is made up of several HUCTW designees, as well as top administrators from the Benefits Office, Financial Systems, the University Health Services, and a Medical School faculty member...
Within the last month, in response to HUCTW's ongoing proposals to establish the benefit in negotiations with the University, Harvard has announced its intention to convene a new committee, chaired by the Provost and with broad faculty involvement, to consider the question of "domestic partners" coverage further...
...HUCTW representatives will take part in the meetings of the Provost's committee enthusiastically, but a troubling question lingers. Why is it that a small but important question concerning the basic fairness of Harvard's health insurance offerings, which has already been studied extensively by a Joint Committee which included a number of Harvard's top administrative and faculty experts on health care issues, needs to be referred to committee for a second time? Again, it is hard not to reach the conclusion that the University's approach to the consideration of complex health care issues is not comprehensive...