Companies have a simple and legal way to help their workers living in anti-abortion states - expandi

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

expanding paid time off

Employers looking for ways to support their workers seeking abortions in states where it’s now illegal or soon will be don’t have it easy.

From an employer’s standpoint, abortion is considered a type of health care benefit – and the rules that apply to that benefit are shifting rapidly from state to state. Abortion is also a political flashpoint guaranteed to produce controversy. And the problem is not going away anytime soon.

Some companies are vowing to cover the cost of traveling out of state to get the procedure where it is still legal. Others are emphasizing that their insurance plans explicitly cover abortions.

As a legal scholar specializing in employment law, I believe there’s also a third option that may not be as generous but is less likely to run into legal problems – and will help more workers, especially those with low incomes.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/abortion-benefits-companies-simple-legal-181815614.html

[PortTack]

1. As days and weeks go by employers, regular citizens wanting to help and those needing abortion

Are going to get more and more creative with work arounds.

I see the red states running in circles with one foot nailed to the floor powerless to stop it, and law enforcement (if you can call it that) becoming more frustrated and less interested in chasing their tails with cases that can’t be proven.

[KentuckyWoman]

2. Medical travel insurance

A lot of plans already cover the travel costs of the patient and sometimes a support person to obtain care outside their home territory, or to return home after an emergency event away from home.

Our coverage through UAW covered quite a bit of our expenses from eastern Kentucky to Lexington for his chemo treatments -including the overnight. A niece has Anthem and they covered expenses out of state because that city had the closest trauma center when her husband fell off a 3rd story balcony collapse.

I believe it is common benefit, just not widely advertised. Like most medical care, you find out if you are covered when the need arises.

[Arazi]

3. Abortion is no longer medical care in those states. It's a crime

Would you trust telling anyone you need $$ and time off to go commit “murder”?

Would you trust telling strangers that info? In a state that criminalized that information and in TX (and soon to be other states), strangers are incentivized to tell law enforcement so they can collect $10k?