Health care workers to rally because they can’t afford medical coverage [View All]

[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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