When a front line worker gets covid, who pays the bills?

[PurgedVoter]

When a grocery sacker falls ill, who pays the hospital bill? When a teacher takes covid home to their family, who pays for the funeral?
If covid has a one percent chance of killing and a much, much higher change of long term issues, a person working the front lines has much more risk than stated. One percent chance of death gets multiplied by the number of family members that worker goes home to. Any one of them can in turn, break the bank.

We have a horrible healthcare system. Even if you are insured, your costs and deductibles will go against your lifetime limit. All the issues a person has with covid will become preexisting conditions.

When you just look at the risk of dying, you are ignoring the potential disability, debt and stress on a family. When we ask a teacher to risk, not just their life, but their family because we want a babysitter for our horrid children, are we going to pay the deductible for all of their doctor visits?

[Glorfindel]

1. "We have a horrible healthcare system. "

Truer words were never spoken, and I worked in it for many years.

[hlthe2b]

2. This is my 30-year ER nurse sister's problem. Long hauler syndrome and she's now

wiped out her savings. She was never even offered medical leave, but only allowed to burn through her months of ETO time. She's been offered NO help with coordinating medical care nor with the expenses, no workman's comp, though it is clear she was infected at work. She has been left with serious medical problems, though she is still trying to work some. She works at a major hospital system that is part of one of the nation's most lauded academic and research medical centers. But, they have been as derelict as some of the poorest hospitals in assuring adequate precautions for their workers.

Her story is repeated countless thousand-fold and there is no help.

She is a very private and proud person. I've thought about arranging a GO Fund Me (having burned through my own savings as well), but I genuinely think this would horrify her, given how we were raised.

Most people have no clue. They think she must get the very "best" being a ER nurse at one of the finest hospital systems in the nation. SO, very NOT true.