The financial illness of the University of California Student Health Insurance Plan appeared early in February, diagnosed initially with a $57 million deficit.

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Several University of California campuses plan to withdraw from the UC Student Health Insurance Plan, after a council of UC chancellors endorsed the move, among others, today.

Multiple University of California campuses proposed pulling out of the UC Student Health Insurance Plan at the UC SHIP Advisory Board meeting, because of concerns about the plan’s long-term viability.

The state legislature may soon require the University of California to remove benefit caps currently in place under the UC Student Health Insurance Plan.

In Oakland, the University of California Office of the President has been engaged in deliberations over a cap on health.

It is no secret the University of California has a large budget deficit.

Health insurance is boring until it isn’t. This was the sentiment expressed at a weekly Undergraduate Students Association Council meeting in early February. This statement symbolizes the new fight brewing over the University of California’s Student Health Insurance Plan, which is now more than $57 million in debt.

UCLA students on the University of California Student Health Insurance Plan may see premium hikes of about 20 percent in the next school year to help pay for an estimated $57 million deficit on the plan, depending on final decisions made by campus chancellors later this year.

A group of about 30 students and workers gathered outside of the Arthur Ashe Student Health and Wellness Center this afternoon to protest a proposed premium hike and existing lifetime benefit caps for students on the University of California Student Health Insurance Program.

A provision in the University of California Student Health Insurance Plan (UC SHIP) that cuts off benefits at a lifetime cap has recently stirred controversy among students and employees affected by the limits.