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Health Care for Health Care Workers
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Posted about 3 years ago What is a health care worker without a health insurance? A blind bullet like those 19 year olds in the war, always first to fall? Part time workers are not covered with health insurance, isn't it a plain discrimination? What does the full time worker do that the part time worker does not do to not to deserve an insurance coverage? If there are MRSA cases, Bird Flu, H1N1, and what have you being distributed all over the place (by not covering their mouth when coughing, by not washing hands, by not taking their shoes off when inside the house - oh, did you just step on the patient's puke on the floor, yuk!?) part time workers get them too. I say part time workers are the ones being assigned all over the place and shifts when the full time workers does not or can not come to work. Obviously, the employers and the legislators does not think that the part time workers can also contract diseases, they die if they can not afford medical attention, and they do not deserve health insurance? If the ugliest dog is being rescued, if the lazy cat is being groomed, if the fat pig is being pet, why can't the part time workers who works almost like their full time job, who cares for your almost abandoned (by families) mother or father or grannies, the part time workers who not only fill up the gap where the families should be but also saves you a lot of trouble when your full time workers "called-in-sick", have a health care plan coverage? |
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| Posted about 3 years ago Health care workers are the the ones on the FRONT LINE. Permanent Full Time Workers or Part Time Workers we all have to have protection, that is, Insurance protection, if we are talking equality here. Are the legislators closing their eyes on people who are always in the "high risk" on their job? Professionals (Nurses) are offered insurance even if they are part time worker but CNAs are not. Is it because CNAs are super bionic, they will not get sick. Dogs are better they may have insurance, plus they lick their wounds. I am very disappointed how this thing is left out in this "Great America". I know that corporations and businesses are not humans but they are managed by humans. Humans caring for humans. Do we have a better care - humans to animals, maybe? Some people can love their animals but their mama or papa they can ignore for life. Of course, I am just venting...no offense! I just want to know what people can say about "not being cared for". |
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| Posted about 3 years ago Well, it does stink......the whole mess. Im not working right now, I call it 'on leave'........but the insurance at with my employer costs more than my husbands does so we dont use it; funny, Im a health care person and he's an HR person in a manufacturing company. Also, our part time staff pays more for the insurance than our full time staff. Now, Im not an HR person but it makes NO sense to me.
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| Posted about 3 years ago Lunar <I make my own abbreviations, so sorry> I really appreciate your insight. You've always been up front and use a respecable knowledge base when you post stuff. The company who is my employer is full of super people, but I dont know the upper echelon of bosses, CEO's, etc. I also dont do the annual picnics, and Christmas parties. My immediate coworkers call our facility 'the firm'..........like the movie with Tom Cruise. We always felt like 'fhe firm owned us'..........but we love each other. Does that make sense. I dont do the Christmas parties because I have this thing about big gatherings, we throw our share of bridal and baby showers. Prior to marrying my husband I checked my past employee contributions and EOB's. Ive been a nurse for 15 yrs and been insured with my employers for a 11.5 years with my employers and ALWAYS had much bigger deductibles and copays than he did. When we were dating and were sort of sharing info, he laughed because he thought it was ironic that people who saved lives had to pay more for their own care............maybe Ive always been high maintenance and didnt realize it. Now I am proud of him, he has been in HR for about 25 yrs and he wrote all of the policies for the health insurance and other benefits. He said he learned that to get the best people you have to treat them good. Ive been worried about lay offs and stuff like that,........they have had a couple of small lay offs in the plant over the last 4 or 5 monthes, but its like he had a meeting with a bunch of the staff and gave them the option of what to do. They chose to rotate layoffs, and thats what they do. |
