Even hospital staff are struggling with copays

by Erica Caldwell—Pennsylvania

I spoke with one older woman who answered the door in scrubs. As soon as I mentioned that health care costs are rising five times faster than inflation, she started shaking he heard emphatically. She told me that she worked at the hospital as a secretary. The doctors and nurses told her and the other secretaries that they were shocked that they even worked at the hospital because the copays on their health care plan were so horrible they weren’t affordable for the pay they made.

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