Cap Removed

Earlier posts on this blog have noted the controversy surrounding the lifetime cap on UC student health insurance.  Most students are healthy and never hit the cap.  But if a major illness occurs, the insurance, which students must have unless they have some other coverage, could run out.

The new federal healthcare law generally forbids such caps but UC was able to continue it as a self-insured plan.  It appears, however, that after complaints about the limit, the cap will be removed. (We also noted in a recent post that UC-Berkeley was planning to pull out of the UC-wide plan and provide its own insurance program.)

An article on the removal can be found in the Sacramento Business Journal at:
www.bizjournals.com/sacramento/news/2013/05/03/uc-eliminating-lifetime-coverage-limit.html