This summer, when NYU unilaterally decided to use the Brown Decision to refuse to negotiate a new contract with GSOC, they claimed that their magnanimous paternalism would ensure "the continuation of the University paying 100% of the student health insurance plan premiums for the GAs" (shouldn't that be premia?) and that the benefis of the post-union regime would be "exactly the same" as those guaranteed by the GSOC contract. Sounds nice, doesn't it?
Unfortunately, that's about all it does. Out of pocket maximums (maxima?) and prescription drug copays have risen by 50% or more. Maximum visits to outptient mental healt (including therapy) have fallen from 30 to 20 maximum visits per yeqar. (And this place makes people need therapy real fast.) Many other benefits, including chemotherapy, mammography, and anaesthesia fees have either become less covered or aren't even listed - as is the case with radiation therapy, chemo, and home IV therapy. It seems that NYU flat-out lied about continuing to provide the same health care to graduate students and employees. At the Town Hall meeting on the 26th, President Sexton dismissed these increases by referencing the rising costs of prescription medecines and told us we should be thankful for the university's magnanimity, since he argued that this is csting them more than last year. I haven't seen the math for that, but even if it's the case, that excuse didn't fly when it was trotted out by the San Francisco Hotel Industry's Multi-Employer Group, and we shouldn't accept it from the president of a very rich corporate university, either.
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