Word: refundability
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...writing to (ask for / request / demand / rhapsodize about the injustice of having to write a letter to ask for) a refund on my $75 contribution to the Undergraduate Council’s (puritanical / paternalistic / lame-sauce) Student Life Fund. Because the UC no longer distributes party grants, I must buy (Milwaukee’s Best / Bud Light / Malibu—but with PBR chasers, so it’s totally legit) using my own funds, which are (meager / paltry / as of a week ago, worth only 13 percent of their former value) to say the least...
...conclusion, please (remit / refund / gimme back) my $75. I believe that writing this letter (has helped you better to understand my point of view / has helped me better to understand my point of view / could totally have been done electronically), and I think in the future I will (send an angry email over my house-list / use this as yet another rationalization for stealing dishware / transfer to a state school, where sources tell me alcohol rains from...
...Students who are so unfamiliar with BCBS’s approach to abortion coverage that they are not already aware of the opportunity for the refund are not those students strong enough in their convictions (or familiar enough with this issue) to make a wise and socially conscious decision regarding this element of health insurance. It is easy to imagine a student who is not sexually active or who engages in only the safest modes of intercourse choosing to opt for the refund because they cannot imagine themselves ever needing an abortion and find the idea of aborting disturbing...
...student health fee which supports University Health Services (UHS)—goes to funding abortions and that their opting out will make a difference or somehow reduce the ability of individuals on BCBS plans to obtain an abortion. That is hardly the case. The refund amounts to just a dollar per term. HRL says it has collected over 400 waivers this year, up from 128 last year. That $300 a term is a drop in the bucket compared to the overall pool of money flowing into Harvard-affiliated BCBS plans and the $50 co-pay on an elective abortion...
Therein lies the flaw in HRL’s campaign. In order to get students to opt out, it exaggerates the numbers and mischaracterizes the impact. Some students might even want the refund simply because it is “free money.” That being said, students should certainly know about the option to opt out and be free to do so if they so please and are fully informed about the refund and where it goes. Given that BCBS allows opting out, the awareness element of HRL’s campaign is reasonable. Its particular methods, however...