DO YOU LIKE IT ON A STAGE? Drama kids zip up their bar-ba-loot suits and don their flying beanies. PAGE 6 VOLUME XLII, ISSUE XLIV THURSDAY, APRIL 08, 20102010 WWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORGWWW.UCSDGUARDIAN.ORG *(70;63/033)03367,5:4,+0*(305:<9(5*,67;065: 36*(3(--(09: +IUX][0MIT\P.MM[\W:Q[M Jacobs Federal health-care reform could mean Donation higher rates for students with UCSD health insurance. By Cheryl Hori Funds New ith the passage of students subscribed to the plan, President Barack an increase in students choos- Hospital W Obama’s health-care ing to opt may lead to higher reform bill, students at UCSD prices overall. Scripps says facility will may soon see the cost of their Currently, S.H.I.P. costs school-sponsored health insur- distract from efforts at ance program increase, along approximately $282 per quarter with an excise tax on tanning for undergraduates. According existing medical center. beds and full insurance sub- to McDaniel, it is still too early sidies for individuals with no to estimate how much the pric- By Connie Qian income. es would increase. Staff Writer The bill — passed last “A lot of factors go into month after more than a year the cost of student health-care Following a $75 million donation of deliberation in Congress — plans,” she said. “Of course, the from Irwin and Joan Jacobs UCSD allows students to remain on number of students enrolled Health System, which oversees all their parents’ health-insurance will have an impact. It’s still UCSD hospitals, has announced plans plans until they reach the age too early to tell... but we’re still to build the Jacobs Medical Center, of 26 — a significant increase trying to work out a time frame which will take over some responsibili- from the previously common [to determine the new rates] ties from the UCSD Medical Center in age limits of 19 or 23. Before with our broker and insurance Hillcrest. the bill’s passage, children were carrier.” Critics from Scripps Medical typically removed from their For Eleanor Roosevelt Center in La Jolla argue that the new parents’ policies when they College freshman Danny facility will have adverse effects on graduated from high school or Fishman, the reform means he the Hillcrest location, which currently college. will likely opt out of the pro- offers services such as advanced sur- The provision is designed to gram by next fall. Fishman said gery and women’s care to many under- cover the 1.7 million university that, had the bill not passed, privileged San Diego residents. These students — or 20 percent of the he would have been removed services would move to the new center. national student population — from his father’s insurance plan “Moving health-care services from who are currently uninsured. when he turned 19, and would an underserved community will cre- According to Student Health have subsequently signed up for ate a ripple effect with all providers in Insurance Program Manager S.H.I.P. However, his plans have the region,” Scripps Health President Cindy McDaniel, allowing stu- changed. and CEO Chris Van Gorder said. dents to stay on their parents’ “If the price of S.H.I.P. “If UCSD provides fewer services in plan until age 26 will likely raise increases while I’m still on my Hillcrest, the other providers — such the price of participating in father’s plan, I’m going to stay as Scripps — will be responsible for a UCSD’s health-care program. on my father’s plan — there’s larger share of the underserved com- McDaniel said that if more no need for me to get S.H.I.P. munities.” students are covered by their anymore,” he said. According to UCSD Health parents’ insurance — students The reform is particu- System spokeswoman Kimberly who would otherwise have paid larly beneficial to students like Edwards, however, these are not valid for basic coverage through the Fishman who have undergone concerns. She maintains that the campus program — they will a medical procedure in the past. “two-campus strategy” will actually choose to opt out of S.H.I.P. Fishman would have had a dif- improve patient care in San Diego. Since the price of the S.H.I.P. “Surgery and women’s interests PHILIP RHIE/GUARDIAN plan depends on the number of See S.H.I.P.page 3 will be moving [to the Jacobs Medical Center], but everything else stays — trauma, emergency, AIDS/HIV, inpa- ;90;65:05;0./;: tient, outpatient,” Edwards said. “In fact, bed for bed, we’re going to have 6M_<ZWTTMa more room for people down here. So the complaints that are coming from Scripps are not right at all.” :W]\M[5Ia According to Edwards, decreas- ing the number of beds from 321 to 300 is still more than enough to house the average 255 patients in the ;MZ^M=+;, hospital daily, and removing services By Sarah Smith will increase the number of private Senior Staff Writer patient rooms. “The only service leaving Hillcrest An in-the-works proposal to bring the [completely] is baby delivery,” San Diego trolley system to UCSD has Edwards said. “And that won’t hap- narrowed down three possible routes, and pen for another six years.” could be completed by 2016, according to One of the main focuses of the Director of UCSD Physical and Community new medical center — which will Planning Brad Werdick. also house the Hospital for Advanced The prospect first arose in 2004 when Surgery and the Hospital for Women San Diego’s Regional Planning Agency sug- and Infants — will be the Cancer gested extending the current trolley sys- Hospital, devoted to addressing the tem from the Old Town Transit Center to needs of patients afflicted with the No. the UCSD area, through University Towne DHRUMIL DESAI/GUARDIAN 1 cause of death in San Diego County. 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