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Graduate Student Health Insurance Campaign
Campaign Background:
During the 1980s, the number of uninsured graduate students was rising quickly. To address this problem, individual campuses
ran graduate referenda to make health insurance a nonacademic requirement. Today, each campus bids and secures its own
graduate student health insurance plan (GSHIP). In 2000, the Regents voted to make undergraduate health insurance a
nonacademic requirement for attendance. Following their decision, a series of statewide guidelines in regards to benefits,
premiums, and other parts of the program were created. Today, there is no set of corresponding statewide guidelines for
graduate students. Because of the lack of statewide guidelines around GSHIPs:
- Many campuses are paying high premiums for decreasing benefits
- Many campuses do not adequately involve graduate student voices in decision making around their GSHIP
Currently, UC Office of the President's Graduate Student Health Insurance Plan (GSHIP) workgrouop is charged with identifying ways
to improve campus health insurance.
Goal:
This spring UCSA is working to improve GSHIP at campuses across the state, prioritizing benefit packages that have:
- Reciprocity within the UC system (would allow graduate students to utilize their medical plan on any UC campus)
- Mental Health Care Coverage
- COBRA
- Affordable & Quality Dependent Coverage
- Quality coverage for students researching abroad
- Ability to choose own doctors
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