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...current health care benefits package that the University offers to members of the Harvard Union of Clerical and Technical Workers (HUCTW), each worker is required to pay a $10 co-payment each time he or she or a family member visits the doctor. A proposal under consideration by the Joint Committee on Benefits (JCB), a committee consisting of faculty members, University administrators, and members of HUCTW, would cap the co-payments at $100 per family each year...
However, there is a flip side to co-payments that the Joint Committee on Benefits needs to consider. For individuals with chronic illness or for families, the seemingly minuscule $10 payment can become a serious burden. For a family with three small children, the accumulated co-payment costs from ear infections, sore throats and shots can add up to hundreds of dollars. A serious illness can require multiple medical visits each week, and these amassed co-payments can also be a severe strain on already tight paychecks. For many Harvard workers, these co-payments can eat up more and more...
According to Candace Corvey, associate vice president for human resources, the Joint Committee on Benefits has yet to receive the proposal to cap the co-payments. We urge the JCB to act expeditiously and send the proposal to Provost Albert Carnesale so that he can approve the plan. Harvard's workers deserve the freedom from the fear of rising medical costs that imperil their families and the health...
...State of the Union address is a hard act to follow. The President got an hour of prime time to lay out his vision in front of a packed joint session of Congress and assorted national heroes; Dole appeared for 10 minutes in an empty office with a TelePrompTer and snarled through a performance that Rush Limbaugh called "lackluster," and others much worse. Clinton was buoyant, shameless, cleverly conciliatory, as he proclaimed the end of Big Government, attacked sleazy Hollywood profiteers, extolled the virtues of the family and a balanced budget. Clinton's speech was so Republican in form...
...downside is that this makes me less approachable [to requests] by legitimate groups. My nose isn't particularly out of joint, but such antics put me on guard," he said...