Word: jointed
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...quality or availability of health care. HUCTW leaders and Harvard administrators have spoken together since their earliest meetings about the urgent need for everyone within the Harvard community to participate in serious work on this issue. The first Agreement between HUCTW and Harvard, reached in 1989, called for intense joint work in a committee involving faculty, administrators and staff, on "issues such as managed care, quality of care, and cost containment measures." Within the past few years, many in our midst have spoken hopefully about the possibilities for forward-looking programs that would discourage redundant "double coverage," manage systems that...
...University or in any of the separate schools, that work on this issue consistently. Occasionally in the past three years, consultants have visited the campus, usually peddling unattractive plans which pretend to "quality-conscious" cost containment, while actually reducing benefits or limiting access. The University's participation in the Joint Health Care Advisory Committee, created in the HUCTW Agreement, has been reluctant and unproductive...
After intensive negotiation on the subject in 1989, the Union and the University agreed to study that question in the Joint Health Care Advisory Committee, gathering information from other employers which have enacted such plans, considering legal and administrative implications, and estimating costs. That Joint Committee work has been completed, and detailed in a written report. The results are reassuring. A sizable and growing number of institutions, many of them similar in size and activity to Harvard, have introduced "domestic partners" family coverage, with consistently positive results. Previously uninsured members of the community obtain coverage, the degree of participation...
...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...
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...