These Alabama Workers Were Swamped by Medical Debt. Then Their Employer Stepped In. - KFF Health News
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A decades-old manufacturing company opened a clinic and made primary care and prescriptions free for employees and their families.
  • ironhydroxide@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    2 months ago

    I love and hate this.

    All it takes is for the guy running the business the “old school way” to die and pass this on to his children. Then it’s a crap shoot whether the kids want profit, or want to run it the same way.

    Want profit and they’ll start upping the rates, matching the “market” and maybe even beating it because the employees are stuck in the system and can be bled dry.

    • Archelon@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 months ago

      I love that something like this exists for these workers and demonstrates how freely accessible health care saves everyone (including the company) a whole bunch of money.

      I hate that this is a: reliant on the goodwill of a private company and b: bold and revolutionary for the US.