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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why is it the schools responsibility to do this?  Why not go to a doctor in private practice?  I assume most people are on their parent's insurance if you are shipping them to an out of state school they have money to pay for insurance back home.  [/quote]

Because student health services is ON Campus.  For some college campuses, it might be a $20+ Uber ride to/from a doctor off campus.  Add in the time to do this and it can be costly in many ways.

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Also time consuming -- I don't know if this is still the case, but when I was in college birth control needed to be picked up every month.  One of the reasons I went off it was because I it was hard to get to the on campus pharmacy at a time it was open to get my prescription filled.  No way would I have managed to get to an off-campus doctor AND an off-campus pharmacy every month, never mind the cost.  Also the fuss -- do you think 18-year-olds in new cities are confident enough to research and find themselves new private practice doctors?  I didn't know anyone in college who went anywhere for medical care except their pediatrician at home or the on campus medical center.[/quote]

Agreed!  and no, most 18 yo don't have the time or energy to find themselves a new private practice doctor.  My own freshman just needed to get to urgent care for first time, and helping them manage that was the experience everyone would expect (first time in Uber solo, first time at new dr solo so had to fill out all forms/etc themselves)----then had to get to the pharmacy 10 mins from campus to pickup the prescription for antibiotics.  They had me to help them, but what if the 18 you can't have their parents help (parent's can't know about the BC)?  The beauty of on campus health centers is that it doesn't need to go trhu insurance---which is often the parent's insurance.

In my experience (my oldest considered 3 Jesuit universities---we are not religious at all), all 3 Jesuit universities had a Planned Parenthood within 5 blocks of campus.  They are there for many reasons---laregely the fact that Jesuit univerisites are in communities that would typically need PP for a lot of healthcare needs, but it definately was used by many students. [/quote]

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