Diablo Valley College provides a health insurance system for international students and all international students are required to buy the mandatory health insurance within two weeks from the beginning of each semester.

Currently, the cost of health insurance is now $511.00 for the spring and summer semesters in 2014. In addition, international students do not have any options in regards to purchasing the medical insurance; they must buy the insurance no matter what.

However, the problem is that a large number of international students go back to their country during summer break, and most of them are able to use the health insurance that they have in their home country.

According to calculations, in 2014, international students pay $146.00 for summer break. It is a significant amount of money to just ignore.

Therefore, it is a better idea for DVC to change the health insurance system from mandatory to optional, so that international students will not waste their money over summer break.