Health care workers to rally because they can’t afford medical coverage

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Workday Minnesota

MINNEAPOLIS - Health care workers at the University of Minnesota Physicians’ Clinics will rally Wednesday to protest higher payments for their medical coverage.

The rally will be at noon on Diehl Plaza, 500 Harvard St., at the University of Minnesota Amplatz Children’s Hospital on the East Bank of the Minneapolis campus.

Workers say they can’t afford medical care at their own facilities because they’re subsidizing better wages and benefits for more medical school managers.

Managers have forced workers into a high-deductible health insurance plan that covers catastrophes and not much else, they said. Frontline workers, who earn $36,000 a year on average, cannot afford to pay the first $5,000 out-of-pocket for family care or the first $2,500 for single care.


Read more: http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4849

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FULL story at link.

[Dappleganger]

1. That is just a damn shame!

Of all employers, a health care facility ought to be the most able to come up with a viable plan for their least-paid workers. These high-deductible are what Elizabeth Warren calls "faux-insurance", not health insurance.

[Mnemosyne]

2. The irony. K&R n/t

[slipslidingaway]

3. When can we discuss a national health care financed by taxes :( n/t

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

4. When corporations and the rich pay their fair share of taxes

and when we stop building the largest military force in the world.

[slipslidingaway]

5. Not in my lifetime then, but we can try and educate the next generation. n/t

[leftstreet]

6. K&R

[fasttense]

7. I seem to remember something about NOT muzzling the ox that grinds the corn.

Not that health care workers are oxes or animals, it just seems to be very unfair to prevent the people who work in health care from buying their own health care because it is so overpriced.

What an awful society we have become.

[mdmc]

8. ..

[Horse with no Name]

9. This is happening across the country

My former hospital implemented the same plan.

I am sure next year even more will jump on the band wagon.

Also of note...the premiums aren't any cheaper.

[crickets]

10. There is something morally wrong

when even the providers of a service are placed in a position where they cannot afford the service themselves.