This is appalling:
A brother and sister working at a different plant both got sick in early April. The brother wound up on a ventilator, spending six weeks in the hospital, nearly all of it unpaid, his sibling said. He was still in a medically induced coma when the chicken plant began urging her to come back.
Though he survived, they recently received documents from the hospital in English, which they don’t speak. The only thing they understood was the number at the bottom for the cost of his hospital stay: $61,000. [WaPo]
It seems to me that if you’re deemed essential to the well-being of the nation, and are asked to put your life on the line, your medical bills connected to the risk become the responsibility of the Federal Government. Just like military personnel.
The “party of morality,” aka the Republican Party, should know this, they shouldn’t have to be told it. Why isn’t Majority Leader Senator McConnell (R-KY) not up at a lectern, pounding on it while demanding the Democrats in the House deliver legislation to cover the costs of these workers?
