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  • 8 Western Carolinian February 29 1996 Human Resources Students Empty Pockets for Faculty, Staff Health Care by Zachary Smith Contributing Writer Students pay for the majority of WCU faculty and staff health care at Graham Infirmary through medical fees. "I am generally of the opinion that those who benefit should pay commensurate with the benefit they receive," said C. Joseph Carter, vice chancellor of Business Affairs. The infirmary budget and proposed $3 student health fee increase for the 1996-97 school year has involvement is to move from some set of expenses to a budget," he added, asserting that he has made "no policy decision". Carter said that unless the cost of the operation were prohibitive, providing health care through the infirmary was "desirable", even considering the health insurance benefits faculty and staff receive. "The University has some interest in employees getting prompt access [to health care]," he said. Carter had no opinion on how infirmary fees should be restructured. "Fees necessarily will be advised," said Carter, adding, "I intend to give it some attention." aprprodvyedebyDr "I intend to give it some attention." — C. Joseph Carter, Vice Chancellor of Business Affairs ment. Faculty and full time staff at Western Carolina have the option of three health insurance benefit plans: State of North Carolina Teachers' and State Employees' Comprehensive Major Medical Plan (NCMM); Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina Personal Care Plan (PCP); and PHP, Inc. NCMM provides $1,000,000 maximum lifetime benefit at a cost of $144.60 per month to the University, but has a $250 per year deductible and 20% copayment of first $5,000 after deductible, in addition to ^^^__^__->_^^__ copayments for Donald P. O'Neal, director of Graham ^——^——— Infirmary, Glen Stillion, vice chancellor of Student Development, Carter and the WCU Board of Trustees, and will take effect pending approval by the UNC Board of Governors. There is no faculty and staff health fee increase proposed for 1996-97. "We revisit every fee every year," said Carter, but the faculty and staff health care fee cannot be increased until the 1997-98 school year, barring failure by the UNC Board of Governors to act upon the package currently proposed. Carter didn't know why the policy of student subsidized health care for faculty and staff has gone so long unchanged. "It's something I intend to take a look at. As to why, I don't know," says Carter. "My O'Neal said that he determines how much money he needs to meet infirmary operating expenses. "I can recommend fee increases," said O'Neal, but suggestions then go to Stillion and Carter before becoming a fee increase proposal. The fee structure has remained about the same for many years. "We came with the [revenue] sources as they are", said O'Neal. Students have traditionally paid for the majority of revenue increases. Looking ahead, O'Neal sees the possibility for fee restructuring, "As costs go up, revenue needs to be spread equitably, especially as Wellness Center programs expand." Stillion was not available for corn- other specified services. PCP provides a ■$1,000,000 maximum lifetime benefit at the same cost to the University with a $13.06 monthly employee contribution, no deductible and allows copayment only for specified services. PCP does not cover services not provided by Personal Physician or approved of in advance by Blue Cross and Blue Shield. PHP provides $2,000,000 maximum lifetime benefit with a $43.60 monthly employee contribution, no deductible and copayment only for specified services, but only covers services provided by a PHP Provider, none of whom practice in Jackson County. All three health care plans specify a $10 copayment for physician office visits. Commentary: Natural Law Party by Briggs Gilliam Staff Reporter Recent events in Washington such as the still lingering budget impasse, cast doubts on the ability of either major political party to govern. Vital issues, such as welfare, fiscal responsibility and the environment surface, only to inconspicuously subside without causing the necessary reform. Fortunately, owing to the essential plural nature of our political system, viable voting alternatives exist. If the environment is preeminent among your political issues then perhaps the fledgling Natural Law Party offers sensible solutions. Founded four years ago in Fairfield, Iowa, the Natural Law Party envisions a sort of Emersonian harmonization of our invented laws with the laws of Nature. Lest ye snicker, their's is not so much a Utopian vision as one firmly rooted in hard nosed scientific pragmatism. In fact, the party's 1996 presidential candidate, John Hagelin, and his running-mate Mike Tompkins are both Harvard trained physicists who work at the Institute of Science, Technology and Public Policy, a public policy think tank at Maharishi University of Management in Fairfield. Their approach to solving our nation's problems is simple: scrap that which is either destructive or ineffectual and develop or continue to implement policies and programs that work. "It's naive to think that things that have been failing year after year are suddenly going to work because a politician has found a new way to explain them," Tompkins said in an Asheville Citizen-Times interview. "The only way we're going to reduce taxes is to reduce the problems government has to spend money on. It's a fiction to think that by reforming the welfare system, you're going to reduce the welfare problem," he further stated. Some of the party's basic stances advocate natural, prevention-oriented health programs to cut health care costs; an emphasis on renewable and alternative energy production as well as energy conservation; and the promotion of organic and sustainable agricultural practices which increase harvests and profits without introducing hazardous fertilizers and pesticides to the environment. The Natural Law Party needs 51,904 signatures by May 15 to be able to compete for the U.S. presidency in November. In their first bid for the White House in 1992 Hagelin and Tompkins captured a very scant 37,137 votes. For more information on the Natural Law Party call 1-8OO332-OO00, or Email at: infoWnaturallaw. org. World WideWeb site: www.natural-law.org/nip. Lucky # 13: Once again Man's consumption of natural resources and lack of responsibility have resulted in an ecological tragedy. The recent accident in Wales is coined an "environmental catastrophe" as 19 Million Gallons of black gold spills near the coast. ST. ANN'S HEAD, Wales - A dozen straining tugs pulled a tanker off a cluster of rocks Wednesday [Feb. 21 ] after it spewed an estimated 19 million gallons of oil, far exceed ing the Exxon Valdez's spillage in 1989. British conservationists said they feared it may be too late to avert an environmental catastrophe in the Milford Haven estuary, near one of Britain's most important wildlife conservation areas. The tanker ran aground at the mouth of the estuary, at St. Ann's Head, on Thursday en route to a Texaco Inc. refinery at Milford Haven, about 8 miles further into the estuary. [Note:] The St. Ann's headland and the nearby coast and islands form one of Britain's leading havens for guillemots, fulmars, gulls, shags, eormorants and other sea birds as well as gray seals, dolphins and porpoises. Provided by The Associated Press. The World's 13 Biggest, Most Destructive Oil Spills The approximate volume in gallons of some of the largest oil spills from tankers: 88.2 MILLION: July 19,1979, collision of Atlantic Empress and Aegean Captain ott the Caribbean nation of Trinidad. 73.5 MILLION: Aug. 6 1983, Fire on Castillo de Bellver, off Cape Town, South Africa. 7j, 65.6 MILLION: March l6,19/»> Amoco Dacize grounds near Portsall, France. 34.9 MILLION: March 18,19o , grounding of Torrey Canyon off Land's En j England. . . 33.8 MILLION: Dec. 19,1972, collision of Sea Star in Gulf of Oman. 29.4 MILLION: May 12,1976, grounding of Urquiola at La Coruna, Spain. 29.1 MILLION: Feb. 25,1977, f£ aboard Hawaiian Patriot in the northern "26 MILLION: Jan. 5,1993, grounding of Braer off Shetland Islands, England- At least 19 MILLION GALLON^ 15,1996 grounding of Sea Empress, Wai • 18-29 MILLION: March 20,1970. lision of Othello in Tralhavet Bay, Swede>,. 13.5 MILLION: June 13, 1968, failure of World Glory, off South Afnca- 10.7 MILLION: Nov. 1,1979, coins-0 of Burmah Agate of Galveston Bay, Te*■ . 10.1 MILLION: March 24,1" grounding of Exxon Valdez, Alaska. Derivedfrom "The World Almanac Provided by THE ASSOCIATED PRESS-
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