https://www.counterpunch.org/2020/05...tied-to-a-job/
Thanks Trump...Again
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“Consequences of the unemployment driven by the novel coronavirus pandemic will reverberate through the U.S. economy for months, if not years,” “P:BS reported, adding this: “One result: as millions of Americans lose their jobs, they are also losing their health care coverage — and for many, there aren’t affordable insurance alternatives — and now they have neither.” The story had a stark title: “For Many Americans, Health Insurance is Tied to a Job – and Now They Have Neither.”
The “NewsHour’s” report was accurate and unnerving, full of first-person accounts from workers laid off from their jobs and removed from health insurance by the 2020 coronavirus recession:
Paul Solman: Case in point, asthmatic Robert Laurence, whose low-paying gigs have never come with benefits.
Robert Laurence: I was a trash collector. I was — they call them brand ambassadors. I worked at a call center.
Paul Solman: Health insurance is a luxury simply he can’t afford.
Robert Laurence: You kind of have a choice. You know, do I pay my car payment or do I get my inhaler?
Paul Solman: But aren’t you worried, even though you’re obviously quite young, there’s a pandemic out there, something really bad could happen to you, and you have no coverage?
Robert Laurence: I’m very worried about it. It’s just that I don’t have the money to really buy into that system. And, hopefully, I can get a better position. But, you know, the future is kind of looking bleak.
Paul Solman: And the economics of COVID-19 could make things bleak for years to come.
Anne Case (“NewsHour”-approved policy expert): It’s possible that many, many, many people will get tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of medical bills that they cannot pay.
Paul Solman: Frank Johnson hopes he isn’t one of them. So what happens if you get sick?
Frank Johnson: I’m just praying that I don’t get sick. And just hopefully, you know, not, nothing happens and nobody around me gets infected.
Thanks, “P”BS. Gee, who knew?
The “NewsHour’s” report was accurate and unnerving, full of first-person accounts from workers laid off from their jobs and removed from health insurance by the 2020 coronavirus recession:
Paul Solman: Case in point, asthmatic Robert Laurence, whose low-paying gigs have never come with benefits.
Robert Laurence: I was a trash collector. I was — they call them brand ambassadors. I worked at a call center.
Paul Solman: Health insurance is a luxury simply he can’t afford.
Robert Laurence: You kind of have a choice. You know, do I pay my car payment or do I get my inhaler?
Paul Solman: But aren’t you worried, even though you’re obviously quite young, there’s a pandemic out there, something really bad could happen to you, and you have no coverage?
Robert Laurence: I’m very worried about it. It’s just that I don’t have the money to really buy into that system. And, hopefully, I can get a better position. But, you know, the future is kind of looking bleak.
Paul Solman: And the economics of COVID-19 could make things bleak for years to come.
Anne Case (“NewsHour”-approved policy expert): It’s possible that many, many, many people will get tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of medical bills that they cannot pay.
Paul Solman: Frank Johnson hopes he isn’t one of them. So what happens if you get sick?
Frank Johnson: I’m just praying that I don’t get sick. And just hopefully, you know, not, nothing happens and nobody around me gets infected.
Thanks, “P”BS. Gee, who knew?
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