<p>Honestly harvardman, you're given me plenty of good reasons to consider never giving money to Cornell for grants to students again. Every post I've ever seen from you talks about nothing except how Cornell is trying to screw you personally. No one is forcing you to go to Cornell. You have choices. Please act like an adult and take responsibility for your own well being instead of pointing to everyone and everything else as the source of your hardships. I haven't been busy defending Cornell as much as I have been trying to help you see that you need to step up and make things work -- take responsibility -- whether that includes taking loans to pay some small amount towards your own education or making sure that you understand the implications of being without health care. I would have exactly the same message for you whether you were going to Cornell or SUNY Albany or UCLA or Gonzaga. You don't have to agree with me, but you should probably reconsider attacking me for trying to help.</p>
<p>sallyawp, forget it. you never seem to understand my posts. the point here is, why should I pay an extra 1400 dollars to make the doctors happy, or to make cornell richer than they already are. I have emergency coverage and quite frankly, thats enough for me. </p>
<p>opie, thank you for the help. if things don't work out, I will indeed file a complaint.</p>
<p>spanks, are there a lot of house parties at cornell? where they charge you 3 dollars per cup, (the hotties get it for free obviously) and do people host their own parties at bars and stuff, you know, the ones where they charge you 20 dollars to enter?</p>
<p>Just to be clear, I never said that you should pay for insurance if you already have coverage. I just said that you should make sure to have coverage so that you don't ruin your financial future. Big difference. I guess you just never seem to understand my posts. </p>
<p>I thought that it was a private insurance company that provided the health insurance -- not Cornell. If so, I don't see how Cornell profits from this. And I can understand that Cornell -- or any other school -- would not want to be financially responsible for a student's medical bills. There are many injuries that require expensive multiple surgeries and costly hospital stays. </p>
<p>Harvardman, have you thoroughly worked with your health insurance company to see if you can meet the requirements to satisfy the waiver?</p>