Dismay with Health Insurance Stems from Ignorance
Kansan Staff Writer
By CAROLYN OLSON
Complaints of inadequate coverage have been voiced this semester by some students, who say that the student health insurance from Blue Cross and Blue Shield during fall enrollment. The insurance company said that policy holders are expecting too many benefits from this coverage.
Bill Sellen, Blue Cross-Blue Shield representative from Topeka, said most complaints were from persons who had not been vaccinated and policies did not understand the benefits.
the policy now being used by KU students is different from the one we offered last year," Sellen said Monday. "Last year office calls to a physician were covered by Blue Cross except at Watkins, but this year they aren't."
One of the complaints against the present
student health plan is that yagnologist interviews and the costs of contrapetives were not covered in the plan; neither were X-rays in hospitals other than Watkins. The student's dependants are complained that a student's dependants are not covered as thoroughly as a student is.
SELLEN SAID the BLE Cross-Blue Shield plan was only supplementary to the health services provided by the student's campus college fee. An interview with a gynecologist was conducted for a student, and not a dependent, talked with a gynecologist at Watkins Hospital.
An office call clause was included in last year's policy, according to Dr. Raymond Schwegler, director of health services. He
One of the restrictions of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield plan is that non-accident X-rays are not covered unless they are taken at Watkins.
said, however, that the clause was overused and "people were going to the doctor for any
A Lawrence physician not employed by Watkins, could call Watkins to take an X-ray of a student or a dependent and send the student to Henningsen said, and the X-ray would be covered.
The portion of the policy concerning dependents has confused some students. Schweiger said students, but not their parents, had been at Watkins because of the limited grace.
*WATKINS WAS originally built to serve about 5,000 students and look how many we have now.*
Schweigler said many wives of students came to Watkins and were refused treatment. He has submitted a recommendation to William Balfour, vice chancellor for student affairs, that would enable dependents of the students to Cross-Blue Shield policy to be treated at the center. The recommendation ultimately must be approved by the Board of Regents. Mr. Balfour said he did not know when the Regents would consider his recommendation.
This year's student health insurance plan costs a single student $73.08 annually, and is equally for a single student last year, said Kaitlin Junior, junior and body study vice president.
ALLEN SAID the increase was due to the inclusion of maternity benefits on the plan.
Allen was chairman of the Student Senate Student Services Committee, which studied recommended the Blue Cross-Blue Lake Plan to the Senate for approval last April.
The benefits cover delivery or complications of pregnancy, such as abortion or birth.
Sellen said that another reason for the increase in cost was greater medical-surgical protection was provided and the hospital was willing to limit prescription coverage for each illness.
In last year's plan Blue Cross-Blue Shield paid only 30 per day for hospital stays; now it pays 50.
The rate for the two-party Blue Cross-
Blue Shield plan has increased from $122.16
annually to $152.28, and the family rate,
covering the student and two or more
dependents, has risen from $183.60 to
$224.40.
Services provided free in the student campus privilege fee which all students must pay, are an unlimited number of office hours and study time. Student counseling; bloodtests; X-rabs:
prescriptions and lab tests at a reduced price; whirlpools; and a few visits to the methadone and mental health clinic, Allen said.
ONE OF THE advantages of the Blue Cross-Blue Shield policy, Allen said, is that it allows you to prescribe drugs, which can be filled throughout the world. She said a student must present his Blue Cross-Blue Shield prescription card at the pharmacy or hospital.
Kyle Ward, the Lawrence representative for Blue Cross-Blue Shield, said that about 200 students had not picked up their identification cards from the office at 1203 Iowa Street and needed the identification cards to be able to receive Blue Cross coverage.
Ward said about 3,000 students bought the student health plan from Blue Cross at age 12.
COLDER
Wednesday, December 6, 1972
The University of Kansas—Lawrence Kansas
VC Pledges Violence If South Vetoes Pact
Lewis Hall Coffeehouse To Open Today
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SAIGON (AP) — Viet Cong main force and guerrilla units are under orders to continue fighting if the United States signs a separate agreement with the Saigon government refuses to follow it.
"Listen regularly to both friendly and enemy broadcasts," the documents advise the Viet Cong. "If the Americans announce cease-fire and the puppet government does not, friendly forces are to continue fighting."
The documents, picked up in the past two weeks, were issued after Oct. 31, the Dane Hanoi still insists President Nixon had originally agreed to for the signing of a cease-fire agreement. They consist of orders and notebooks kept by political cadres.
containing indoctrination lessons for a cease-fire in the Saqizon area.
"Sir up violence among high school and university students," party cadre in Saigon are advised. "Form movements to protect draft dodgers and disbey laws. Seize control of the central areas, especially the laborers' quarters."
Sapper units moving into Da Nang are ordered to "concentrate on eliminating biotin" from the skin.
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By The Associated Press
Other documents picked up in the same period indicate the Communists are planning a noisy, violence-strenge reception for a cease-fire in Saigon, Da Nang and some of the other big urban areas where they never had had firm control.
Paris Talk Scrubbed; Envoys to Meet Today
The A880street secret meeting between
A schedule secret meeting between
Henry A. Kissing and Lu Due Theo of North
Vietnam was mysteriously canceled
Tuesday in Paris.
No reason was given by either side for the cancellation of the meeting, which had been postponed.
The U.S. and North Vietnamese delegations announced that the peace negotiators would hold private talks Wednesday.
The site for Wednesday's rendezvous remained undisclosed. It will be elected by the Americans in accordance with an agreement reached between the negotiators whereby each side alternately picks the meeting site.
The North Vietnamese first issued word that the meeting was off. The U.S. delegation confirmed this and then shortly later, almost simultaneously with the North Vietnamese, said a meeting would be held Wednesday.
During the pause, the cable traffic was heavy between Paris and the White House, presidential secretary Ronald L. Ziegler said. Nixon received a number of cables, and sent instructions to his negotiator.
Officials on both sides maintained a tight news blackout.
In Saigon, South Vietnamese officials said Kissinger and Tho were working on a secret agreement in which Hanoi would pledge to withdraw its forces from the South. They added that this would not be written into the public agreement as a face-saving gesture.
The idea is to get the people to provoke a violent reaction by the government. "We need to organize unicorn festival dances and parades, hang and light lanterns. . . We must motivate the vendors in the market to participate in their teachers and workers not to work."
North Vietnam has never admitted that its forces are in South Vietnam. South Vietnam insists on an agreed North Vietnamese withdrawal before it will sign a cease-fire.
clandestine transportation of big weapons is not necessary."
Both U.S. and South Vietnamese sources said they believed North Vietnam would release some American prisoners for the Christmas season. This would occur regardless of whether an agreement is signed.
in both Saigon and Da Nang, as well as in heavily populated Binh Dinh Province, to represent the people, people with "flags, megaphones, posters and banners" to trumpet ceasefire as a great Communist victory. Suggested policies would form the government of national concern.
Political cadres are warned that "the confusing time will be very short," so they must get to work immediately in such projects as "pressuring Buddhist leaders to pray for peace and organize peace marches through the streets" and encouraging "servicemen's dependents to call back their husbands."
When the populace is demonstrating and dancing for peace, lulled by "assault entertainment shows, floats, prayers for peace and death requiers," supers units in Da Nang are to "destroy military posts and watchtowers."
Despite their elaborate blueprint for bedlam, the Communists concede in their latest batch of documents that things gone very well for them in the cities.
They blame the university students for being "too bourgeois" to respond to the struggle, and admit to having made no progress among "the militarist bourgeoisie created by the Americans to replace the French bourgeoisie."
World Gifts
Janet Mullin, who works for the University of Kansas Housing office, looks at a tree cluttered with wooden ornaments portraying fairy tale characters. This is one of many gifts on sale at the KU-Y International Gift Fair, which is open today
Kansan Photo by SUSAN HAYES
and Thursday, the Gifts include clothing, jewelry, toys, Christmas items and novelty gifts. Every continent in the world except Antarctica is represented in the fair. Money made on the fair will go to the KU'1 University-Community action team. Students will receive vocations program and the KU'1 work with the Racism Awareness Center.
Shake-Up In Cabinet Continues
WASHINGTON (AP) - President Nikon promoted Undersecretary of Commerce James T. Lynn to secretary of Housing and Urban Development Tuesday.
Some sources reported that Commerce Secretary Peter G. Peterson would be shifted to a new post as supervisor of international economic policy.
Nixon announced also that Secretary of Interior Rogers C. B. Morton would remain in his second-term Cabinet. Morton, a former Maryland congressman and national Republican chairman, joins Secretary of State William P. Rogers and Treasury Secretary George Shultz as second-term Cabinet members.
The Washington Post and The New York Times reported that South Carolina textile manufacturer Frederick B. Dent was being considered for nomination as Commerce Secretary to succeed Peterson.
Ronald L. Ziegler, White House press secretary, would not comment on the reported Commerce department switch, but said further second-term Cabinet shifts would be announced Wednesday.
Three Cabinet positions, in addition to the secretary of commerce, have yet to be announced. They are: attorney general, agriculture secretary and transportation secretary.
Lynn, a 45-year-old Harvard-educated lawyer, succeeds George Romney as head of HUD. Romney announced a week ago he was leaving the Cabinet to form a coalition of concerned citizens to work for solutions to national problems.
Lynn left his Cleveland law practice in 1969 to become general counsel for the Commerce department. He was made undersecretary in 1971 and was Peterson's chief lieutenant in concluding the recent U.S.-Soviet trade agreement.
CAPE KENNEDY (AP)—Apollo 17,
perhaps man's last visit to the moon for
decades, is ready to blast off Wednesday
Apollo 17 Prepares for Blast Off Tonight
A few minor snags have the count-down about an hour behind schedule, but the
night on America's most spectacular manned space launch.
Nichols Praises Academic Report
By GARY ISAACSON Kansan Staff Writer
Chancellor Raymond Nichols said Tuesday that the Council of Chief Academic Office report released Monday by the state Board of Regents was "prolonged overdue."
"It is basically a very good report," he said in a news conference. "It is very important to review our programs periodically, and report is a guideline for that procedure."
Nichols commended the Council for its work and said the overall recommendations were positive.
"The council recognized that quality is the most important than quantity," he said. "But programs that do not meet minimum requirements to the graduate level, should be discontinued."
The report recommended the discontinuance of 20 KU graduate programs and the placement of 24 programs on a provisional status.
NICHOLS SAID HE did disagree with the
report to a degree concerning the programs it recommended for provisional status at
The 138-page report, which took two years to compile, also recommended regional universities in Missouri such sharing was illustrated by a reciprocal program that KU had with the University of Missouri involving Kansas students and Missouri art architecture students.
"I would wonder whether some of those courses should be abolished because we are the only school in the state that offers a few of them," he said.
"The University cannot be everything to everybody. Therefore, we should share degrees regionally," he said. "In a period in which funding has not kept race with costs, regionalism should be examined very closely."
THE CHANCELLOR said the financial
theory said said the financial
with the discontinuance, recom-
mend.
mended programs, would not be realized for a number of years.
"The programs which have been recommended for deletion must be kept open until the students now in them finish their studies," he said. "The savings would come only when there are no more students in the program."
In other topics, Nichols said he would present the resolution passed by the University of Kansas Memorial Corporation and the College of Presidents at its December meeting.
The resolution asked that the Kansas Union management be allowed to sell corn.
"WE WILL BE PRESSED for time because we meet after the regents meeting," he said, "and we will be discussing budget requests with the regents. I hope the council will be able to meet but it is questionable right now."
Concerning the appointment of Arthur C.
*'B Dutch'* Lonborg as interim athletic
manager for the University of
Maryland.
time is expected to be made up. It still is considered the smoothest in the Apollo
It it was tucking at 9:35 p.m. EST liftoff in the first after-dark launching of a S-manned space flight, a fiery event with more than 9 million visitors to the Cape Kennedy area.
If skies are clear, anyone for 500 miles around could see the rocket as it slices through the darkness trailing a 2,200-foot tail of fire. However, a forecast of considerable cloudiness could dim the prospect for many areas.
Launch Director Walter Kapryan said the weather披ed a threat to the launch only if the higher-level clouds contained ice particles, which might create lightening strikes as the rocket passed through. But he did not anticipate such a problem.
Kapryan reported that minor troubles with a defective battery mounting, a rocket engine igniter and a ground computer had put the countdown about one hour behind, but that the problems had been resolved and the time would be made up during the night.
Astronautas Eugene A. Cernan, geologist Harrison H. Schmitt and Ronald E. Evans are the U.S. astronauts who flew to the moon.
Among those here to bid farewell to Apollo were the three members of Apollo 11 who flew man's first moon landing mission. He was Neil Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin Jr. and Michael Collins.
for the final and most ambitious of the Apollos.
They spent time in spaceship simulators and then took to the air in jet trainer planes for the third time in four days, flying high acceleration runs over south Florida to prepare for the gravity forces they'll experience at liftoff.
With zero hour approaching, the pace quickened at the launch pad as crews worked to prepare the Saturn 5 rocket, the lunar ship America and the lunar ship Challenger.
Cernan, Evans and Schmitt, who have been adjusting their schedule to a late wakeup, plan to sleep until early afternoon Wednesday. They'll undergo a brief exam, eat and suit up for the trip to the launch pad, nine miles from their crew quarters.
Many critical countdown items remain, including the loading of the Saturn 5 on Wednesday with more than 800,000 gallons of liquid hydrogen and liquid oxygen fuel.
Flight batteries were activated, fuel cells services, tanks pressurized and food equipment stowed aboard the spaceships. Five tiny mice packed in a sealed container we put aboard in an experiment to determine the effects of cosmic rays on brain tissue.
After Apollo 17, the United States has no plans to return to the moon in the foreseeable future. Instead, its manned space program will concentrate on earth
orbital flights, starting with the Skylab space station next April.
The Soviet Union also says it has no moon landing plans and that it too will emphasize earth orbital flights which can be of benefit to mankind in the fields of weather forecasting, communications and hunting earth resources.
Dr. James C. Fletcher, administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, said in a recent interview that if U.S. astronauts return to the moon in this summer, they will be part of a joint expedition with the Soviet Union and perhaps other countries.
For the last Apollo, NASA has selected a scientifically intriguing site named Taurus-Litrow at the landing site for Cernan and Schmitt.
They are to guide the spindly-legged Challenger to a touchdown in a three-mile volcanic valley which CERN termed a "boat" for its rapid ascent by mountains rising up to 7,000 feet.
They plan to record a record 75 hours at this site, driving their moon taxi 23 miles in search of very young and very old lunar rocks that he his expertise as a professional geologist to create this material which he would fill in missing chapters in the evolution of the moon.
While Cernan and Schmitt prowl the surface on three outside excursions, Evans drives through it.
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