UCOP Needs to Make the Call to Protect Survivor Health Insurance - Part 7 (Call first; then survey)

Don't be afraid, UCOP. Pick up the phone.

The powers-that-be at UCOP have produced a survey to find out how many survivors on the retiree health plan have had their policies improperly cancelled and how long it took to reinstate those policies which should never have been cancelled in the first place.

Can it really be that UCOP doesn't know how many cancellations are occurring or how long it took to undo them? That fact alone is astounding! Yet, as can be seen below, there really is such a survey.

Clearly, survivors entitled to continued health insurance should not have their policies cancelled. And, as we have been saying all along, what UCOP needs to do is to call the various insurance carriers and tell them not to cancel the policies of eligible survivors. The insurance carriers are the agents of UC; they are paid at an agreed-upon rate to provide coverage. UC is the customer, a very big and important customer. So, the solution is simple. If the carriers are somehow spontaneously cancelling people, tell them not to do so. If they are cancelling people pursuant to some UCOP directive, change the directive.

We don't need another survey now. It's an excuse for delaying the solution, and we need an immediate solution. Once UCOP has made the call, it can then conduct whatever surveys it likes. 

UCOP...Pick...Up...The...Phone.

Excerpt from the survey.