Health Insurance for Students

The bill for the Fall semester from graduate school is sitting on my desk collecting dust. Every once and a while I look at it. This past week I have spent most of my time setting up the student loans so that this bill will not strike fear into my wife when she checks. Really I have to confess that she leaves these things to me and does not look and its the other partner in the marriage that has gotten nervous over this USC bill. One of the particulars about the first semester graduate bill that has had me stumped was the Student Health Center fee totaling $197.00 and the Student Health Insurance fee for $217.00.

The medical fees total around $400.00 for this semester. I have medical insurance, thinking to myself, so why do I need to pay another medical insurance bill. Why would I need double coverage? As it turns out I do not.

Contacting the USC Health Center today I got the info that I needed. For those students that are covered with health insurance there is a Waiver Form that you can download from the USC web site and fill out. After downloading the form this afternoon and copying my insurance card, I faxed these documents to the Student Health Center at 323-422-6212. Next week we will see what happens. Maybe I will save myself several hundred dollars so that I can spend more money on books. That sounds like a reasonable proposition doesn’t it?