The mandatory health insurance policy in consideration means that students who don t have coverage will be required to buy one of the four university plans or some other health care provider plan. Those students already with coverage won t be affected. At present, SU policy doesn t require students to have health insurance with the exception of nursing and foreign students. The premiums in New York are going up at an astronomical percentage, said Hubbell. We want to make the plans affordable.
Some students are ambivalent toward a mandatory health insurance policy.
Brown is currently covered under her parents HMO plan. Blue Plan is almost double, she said. And that s a lot. And they can t look to Mom and Dad at that point. An informal study presented to the Board of Graduate Studies showed that SU graduate stipends, scholarships and other packages were below the median compared to other selective universities, said Miner.