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Recorded: Friday, June 20, 2008
Duration: 07:25
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With health care a top issue for American voters, advocates for better coverage for direct-care workers can sometimes join in a national conversation, delivering their message to a wide audience. HCHCW national director Carol Regan took that opportunity when the people at the Fairness Initiative on Low-Wage Work asked her to do this podcast.
In the podcast, Carol discusses The Invisible Care Gap: Caregivers without Health Coverage, a May 2008 HCHCW report that examines the health insurance status of our nation’s caregiving workforce. She also talks about how that health care crisis affects long-term care recipients.
I am a Home Health Aide, I have been a direct care worker for 30 yrs. and have struggled with this issue all along. I am so glad that someone else sees this as a problem.
I wouldn’t be in this field if it was based on the wage or benefits, because, there are none. So many co-workers that I have worked with have quit health care because of not having any insurance. Luckily at my job we are all middle aged women that have spouses that work with benefits at their jobs.
I thank-you Carol for putting out this podcast.