Renton job club is not just a walking pile of potential medical bills
Apr 5, 2017, 8:14 AM | Updated: 11:02 am
(IKIRO Radio)
It sounds like there are going to be serious meetings to fix Obamacare. And I hope they do fix it, with the result being what the president promised: that everybody would be covered regardless of illness or income.
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Because that was an issue that came up when the I met with a group of unemployed people who attend a weekly job club in Renton. Some of them had earned six-figure salaries but have now exhausted their unemployment and their 401Ks.
“I used to shop exclusively at Nordstrom, now I shop at the Goodwill, and I can’t even afford that,” one woman told me.
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And so I asked the job club attendees: What would help you?
One of the messages that came across loud and clear is that if you want to help us get a job, fix health care.
Listen to them:
The message I heard – especially from the unemployed people in their 50’s – was that without guaranteed health care, employers don’t see them as reliable experienced workers – but rather as a walking pile of potential medical bills. And they want to work!