Text of a Resolution proposed to
the Staff Council and the Faculty Senate
at the University of Mississippi

  Mary Brandt Jensen and Anne M. Klingen proposed a resolution to the Staff Council and the Faculty Senate concerning the changes in the State and Public School Employees Insurance.
    The Resolution failed at the Staff Council vote! See MINUTES OF MEETINGS - November 1999 for more info.
The Staff Council did want to emphaszie that the vote was not a vote against the concerns of the Staff but instead a voted specifically against the verbage in the proposed resolution.  If you have suggestion for a differently worded proposal for the Staff Council, please contact Traci Mitchell.
Copy of Daily Mississippian Article on the Staff Council meeting, with comments on the Insurance issue from Traci Mitchell

    The  Faculty Senate unanimoulsy voted in favor of the Resolution with only a few minor changes!!

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proposed resolution -  changes made by Faculty Senate noted in GREEN

  The University of Mississippi Faculty Senate /or the University of Mississippi Staff Council is resolved to the following things:

  1) to express the concern felt by many of the employees of the University  of Mississippi about the decision of the Office of Insurance in the  Department of Finance and Administration and the Health Insurance  Management Board to eliminate the election of network choices in the  State and Public School Employees' Health Insurance Plan,

  2) to express the employees' concern about the decision by those groups  to make AHS, Inc., the sole state network for all State and Public School  employees in the state of Mississippi,

  3) to request that the Office of Insurance in the Department of Finance  and Administration make available (removed specific date) immediately  a list of all  Physicians, Physician Groups and other Health Care Providers that are  included in the AHS State Network on their web page and to continue to  update that list,

  4) to request the Office of Insurance in the Department of Finance and  Administration and the Health Insurance Management Board to urge AHS in to  address the concerns raised by health care providers from previous  networks who have not agreed to participate in AHS and to redouble their  efforts to add providers in areas where participation by health care  providers is currently lower than the combined participation of  providers in all the previous networks; and also to make all reasonable efforts to include in the network a large number of Shelby County, Tennessee, physicians, specialists in particular,

  5) to request the Office of Insurance in the Department of Finance and  Administration and the Health Insurance Management Board to urge AHS  and the Physicians, Physician Groups and other health care providers to  work together to resolve any differences quickly.  This would insure that  all State and Public School Employees in Mississippi have a  respresentative number of health care providers,

  6) to send this resolution to all members of the Health  Insurance Management Board, to Therese Hanna, Director of the Office of  Insurance in the Department of Finance and Administration, and to all  (removed words"candidates running for state office.")  members of the Mississippi Legislature.
 

Comments of suggestions should be sent to:
Dr. Fred Laurenzo, University of Mississippi Faculty Senate
Traci Mitchell, President University of Mississippi Stafff Cuncil