This your state on "GOP". Nebraska edition
Wounded deputy and family family lose health insurance. If only there was universal health care.
http://www.livewellnebraska.com/health/i-didn-t-ask-to-be-shot-off-the-job/article_1ea0ff64-d894-5ae0-b076-8c92985304e2.html
Deuel County Deputy Mike Hutchinson, who continues to recover from four gunshot wounds suffered during a December ambush while serving an arrest warrant, has lost his family health insurance because he’s not working at least 30 hours a week.
Hutchinson hopes that officials in the small western Nebraska county can find about $1,500 a month to temporarily continue his group health coverage — under a law known as COBRA — until he can return to work.
“I didn’t ask to be shot,’’ Hutchinson said Wednesday. “I was wounded on the job. ... I’m not asking for anything special. Just don’t cancel my insurance.”
Hutchinson’s medical bills and many other expenses related to the Dec. 3, 2015, incident in Big Springs continue to be covered by workers’ compensation insurance. However, for example, Hutchinson now has no insurance coverage for injuries if he or his wife were hurt in a car crash when driving to Ogallala for a doctor’s appointment.
And this too
Prison guards get long hours low pay and no relief.
http://www.omaha.com/news/nebraska/nebraska-prison-workers-want-better-pay-chance-to-be-heard/article_93bed2bd-e5e7-516a-8427-df2dfbda603f.html
LINCOLN — State prison workers are dissatisfied with their pay, don’t think top bosses listen to them and believe that the Corrections Department has been neglected, according to a much-anticipated survey of employees released on Wednesday.
“There is a sense of inequity when long-term employees make the same wage as brand-new employees,” Frakes said.
Respondents said they were concerned about their safety because of the need to work 16-hour shifts to cover job vacancies and that today’s inmates are more violent and uncooperative.
Overall, corrections employees said the department has been neglected for the past decade when it comes to improving pay, training and facilities.
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