[48] in UA Exec
Re: Task Force Report: Medical copay
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Liz Denys)
Sat Sep 19 18:56:35 2009
Date: Sat, 19 Sep 2009 18:56:04 -0400
From: Liz Denys <lizdenys@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
CC: Daniel Hawkins <hwkns@mit.edu>, UA Executive Board <ua-exec@mit.edu>,
CSL <ua-csl@mit.edu>, medlinks-discuss@mit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20090919212026.GM16009@multics.mit.edu>
You forget that many students don't have MIT Extended Insurance. The
privileges of no copays may or may not extend to them.
I don't believe we have enough information to fully figure this out yet.
I would certainly press for more information before taking an exact
stance, and I was only expressing sentiments from the talk.
-Liz
John Hawkinson wrote:
> Liz Denys <lizdenys@MIT.EDU> wrote on Sat, 19 Sep 2009
> at 16:55:25 -0400 in <4AB5453D.1010603@mit.edu>:
>
>> This will certainly affect students. For instance, if a student
>> needs to see a dermatologist, they previously could at Medical for
>> free. Now there will be a copay.
>
> That is not how I interpret Dr. Kettyle.
>
> He said, "It is unclear now this will play out. We're really forced to
> do this by Mental Health Parity Laws, but we've tailored it to meet
> our needs: (1) [it will] not apply to students (2) [it is] only for
> specialty care, not primary care."
>
> If taken at face value, I believe the claim is that dermatology services
> for students will not require a co-pay, but dermatology services for
> employees would.
>
> I'd urge you to check with him on this detail, but I think he was
> pretty clear.
>
>> Whether this makes it an issue, on the other hand, if it is
>> explicitly not something Medical can decide, is unclear. Maybe,
>> awareness of how such decision will be made is a CSL issue?
>
> It seems clear, at least if you support my interpretation of his
> remarks, that MIT has substantial flexibility to adjust things
> within the bounds of the law.
>
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Elizabeth A. Denys
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Class of 2011
Department of Electrical Engineering
Department of Mathematics
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