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Cambridge, Mass. Ive been at Harvard University for 17 years, but Ive never been in a classroom here. Im a cook in the dining halls. I work in the cafeteria at the T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where every day I serve amazing students studying medicine, nutrition and child welfare, as well as the doctors and researchers who train them.
While Ive earned no college credits here, Ive had a lesson in hypocrisy.
On my way to work each morning, I pass a building with the inscription: The highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being. If Harvard believes this, why is the administration asking dining hall workers to pay even more for our health care even though some of us pay as much as $4,000 a year in premiums alone?
I serve the people who created Obamacare, people who treat epidemics and devise ways to make the world healthier and more humane. But I cant afford the health care plan Harvard wants us to accept.'>>>
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/24/opinion/struggling-to-serve-at-the-nations-richest-university.html?
virgogal
(10,178 posts)medical coverage goes but couldn't this lady get an affordable policy by signing up on the ACA exchange?
MissB
(15,800 posts)if they have employer sponsored health care. I could be wrong.
packman
(16,296 posts)Wasn't the support staff at Harvard trying to unionize?
elleng
(130,156 posts)packman
(16,296 posts)Custodians, cooks, gardeners, etc.
Apologies if the term offended.
elleng
(130,156 posts)but I wonder who is/was supposed to be included.
VMA131Marine
(4,124 posts)This is employer provided healthcare and Harvard is considered a large business. It is more an employer trying to squeeze more out of its employees.