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Sino-U.S. joint ventures are just a modest beginning to repair China's ailing health-care system, according to Pasqualine Wolfermann, emergency-response director for MEDEX Global Group Inc., a travel-assistance and medical-insurance company based in Baltimore. "For the extent of the population and the number of business travelers now in the area, there's really not enough," she says. MEDEX still transports its most seriously ill clients to Hong Kong. "In terms of medical care, China is one of the most challenging countries," she says. But it's also ripe with opportunity for businesses with...
...possibility of future modifications to Harvard healthcare. What makes HUGHP’s recent move surprising and regrettable is the message it sends to employees: that their health insurance benefits are subject to drastic change. And while retired patients who choose to switch to BlueCross BlueShield’s MedEx supplement (rather than one of the Medicare-managed plans) will continue to receive care from UHS, the perturbing question of whether Harvard’s medical resources will always be available to them is inescapable...
...fortunate that the circumstances of the change allow Harvard retirees to elect to keep UHS as their primary provider. But deep concern on the part of employees is well-founded. No end is in sight to the extraordinary surge in health care costs; the University could conceivably cease funding MedEx at some later date and close the doors of UHS to its retired faculty and staff. Nothing short of a guarantee to the contrary will do for reassurance...
...We’re told that we can continue to use [University Health Services] facilities and that the University will fund MedEx or other plans,” Mendelsohn said. “There’s no indication that this too cannot be changed unilaterally if the costs get too high...
Erving Research Professor of Chemistry William Klemperer ’50 said he was surprised at the change, but like most HUGHP members, he will remain with UHS by switching to the MedEx plan...