Wisconsin Health Service Directors
11-10-2000
WHEREAS,
Healthier
students and healthier campus communities facilitate learning, promote academic
achievement, and lead to improved retention rates, and,
WHEREAS,
Students’
health is enhanced by access to 12-month, comprehensive and affordable health
insurance, and,
WHEREAS,
Voluntary
enrollment in health insurance plans clearly lead to adverse selection and bad
risk pools, which result in:
Upward
spiraling premiums
Restricting
benefit packages
Declining
participation rates
THEREFORE:
The Directors of the Wisconsin Student Health Services strongly recommend that the UW-System and other appropriate governing bodies of the private colleges and universities adopt the American College Health Association Standards for Student Health Insurance/Benefits Program (July 2000) and collaborate in the implementation on each campus.
On 11-10-2000, in LaCrosse,
during the fall meeting of the Wisconsin Health Service Directors, the above
resolution was affirmed by administrators from the following colleges and
universities:
UW-Eau Claire
UW-Green Bay
UW-La Crosse
UW-Madison
UW-Milwaukee
UW-Oshkosh
UW-Parkside
UW-Platteville
UW-River Falls
UW-Stevens Point
UW-Stout
UW-Superior
UW-Whitewater
Marquette University