Yale Daily News

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UHS faces problems due to overcrowding

Staff Reporter
Published Thursday, November 16, 2006

The Yale Health Plan lost 40 subscribers in the latest open enrollment period that ended Sunday, but administrators said they are concerned that the number of subscribers is already too high for the University Health Services Center.

More than 32,000 faculty, staff, students and their dependents — representing approximately 75 percent of the total number of enrollees in University-sponsored health care — receive their primary care from UHS. Serving this many patients has helped keep the program from becoming too much of a financial drain, but also has led to long delays for...

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