When the Simon Fraser Student Society, the Graduate Student Society, and the Teaching Support Staff Union have issues so serious about the Guard.me plan to each come out against it - one has to question - does anyone except SFU Administration want this plan?

Union petitions against SFU health plan for int'l students

"Reagan Belan, the chief steward for the Teaching Support Staff Union at Simon Fraser University, says her group has collected more than 500 signatures on a petition calling for an end to mandatory enrollment of foreign students into the private Guard.me health insurance program."— Image Credit: MARIO BARTEL/NEWSLEADER

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TSSU confronts SFU admin over international health plan
Students marched across campus to present petition against Guard.me

"The Guard.me plan has come under considerable scrutiny over the past few years. All new international students are automatically enrolled in Guard.me, which offers health and dental care to international students, as they aren’t eligible for a Canadian health care plan for the first two months that they are in the country.

The TSSU is particularly concerned that Guard.me automatically re-enrols students in the plan, which costs over twice the amount of the previous insurance plan. The group is also upset with the fact that SFU receives a five per cent return out of every fee collected.

“This is clearly an unreasonable plan,” said Kidder. “It’s more expensive than it needs to be, it doesn’t actually solve the problem it set out to, so [I ask students to] help us.”

Read more: http://temporary-the-peak.ca/tssu-confronts-sfu-admin-over-international-health-plan/