Wisconsin Health Service Directors

11-10-2000

Resolution on Student Health Insurance

 

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

St. Norbert College