Colleges Tap Students' Private Insurance to Cover Health-Care Shortfalls

Approach is designed to maintain services and avoid increasing fees

As he faced yet another year of double-digit increases in the cost of providing student health care, Glenn Egelman knew that Bowling Green State University's health center would have to find a way to bring in some extra money.

Dr. Egelman, director of the center, did not want to cut any of the services to which students had become accustomed. Even worse, he says, would have been to resort to what he calls

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