[42] in UA Exec
Re: Task Force Report: Medical copay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Kelly Alioth Drinkwater)
Sat Sep 19 04:50:08 2009
In-Reply-To: <9d4f87ed0909190130y17456038xca798ada2925b27e@mail.gmail.com>
From: Kelly Alioth Drinkwater <kdrinkwa@MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 04:49:34 -0400
To: hwkns@mit.edu
Cc: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>, UA Executive Board <ua-exec@mit.edu>,
CSL <ua-csl@mit.edu>, medlinks-discuss@mit.edu
Adding medlinks-discuss to CC list, because we care.
On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:30 AM, Daniel Hawkins <hwkns@mit.edu> wrote:
> Yes.=C2=A0 Thanks for filling in with better details, jhawk.=C2=A0 The qu=
estions still
> stand, of course...=C2=A0 Anyone?
>
> -hwkns
>
> On Sat, Sep 19, 2009 at 4:20 AM, John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu> wrote:
>>
>> Daniel Hawkins <hwkns@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sat, 19 Sep 2009
>> at 04:12:12 -0400 in
>> <9d4f87ed0909190112k9682c64k37ec970b07f1735b@mail.gmail.com>:
>>
>> > So I went to the first open forum about the Institute Wide Planning
>> > Task Force report, and this issue (which has been loosely assigned
>> > to CSL) was brought up. =C2=A0Liz, please correct me if I'm wrong (I
>> > didn't take notes), but I believe there was a doctor there from MIT
>> > Medical who spoke on the issue,
>>
>> That was Dr. Bill Kettyle, the Head of MIT Medical.
>>
>> > and he basically said:
>> >
>> > =C2=A0 * The copay changes will not affect students
>>
>> Except for medication, [which is not a change].
>>
>> > =C2=A0 * The copay changes are for specialty care only, not primary ca=
re
>>
>> And he want on to note that "primary care, writ large, includes
>> internal medicine, pediatics, [ob/gyn]." And that "Many of the other
>> -ologies" would have a copay effective January 1, 2010,
>> including "neurology, gastrointerology," etc.
>>
>> > =C2=A0 * The copay changes are mandated by new laws, so they are not
>> > =C2=A0 negotiable and are already being implemented
>>
>> More precisely, they are mandated by Massachusetts "mental health
>> parity laws," which he said were not new, but are newly going to
>> be affecting MIT, and that though we are forced to do this,
>> "we have tailored it to meet our needs" (by the above). There appears
>> therefore to be some flexibility on how the implementation works.
>>
>> --jhawk@mit.edu =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =C2=A0 =
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>>
>> > My questions are:
>> >
>> > =C2=A0 * Are these things true? =C2=A0If so, why was this "idea" even =
in the
>> > report?
>> > =C2=A0 * Is this issue essentially dead? =C2=A0What can we do about it=
, and do we
>> > even
>> > =C2=A0 =C2=A0 care?
>> >
>> > Discuss.
>> >
>> > -hwkns
>
>
