Health care and job loss a REAL crisis

by Jennifer Hofelich—Pennsylvania

This elderly woman I spoke to in Duryea, PA told me that many years ago she was hurt in a fork lift accident at her job, leaving her unable to work. Years later, her company shipped their jobs overseas along with her health care benefits. She has had two strokes since and is relying on Medicare to pay 80% of her medical costs.

She went on to describe the horror her family has endured fighting the health care system. But as she recounted tales of cancer, strokes and not being able to pay, her eyes welled with tears and her face with sorrow.

I talk to people all the time about job outsourcing and the health care crisis, but this conversation was especially disturbing. As I watched tears stream down her face, I was reminded just how REAL these problems are…and that they happen to REAL people and REAL families in this country-EVERY SINGLE DAY!

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