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| re: Isn’t health insurance through the union | |
| Last Edit: Singapore/Fling 06:05 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:01 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
| In reply to: Isn’t health insurance through the union - dramedy 04:54 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
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| Health insurance is provided by the union, but the item that I think was being pointed to is that the producers are expected to pay for medications related to Covid (there was nothing in the article that mentioned insurance). I believe getting the flu wouldn't generally be a workplace injury, but in this case I think it's reasonable to make the exception. But also, even in normal years, the flu rages through the Broadway community because performers are routinely packed together in dressing rooms and in the wings, are on the receiving end of other people's projectile spit, and are touching or being touched by each other or on surfaces that others have touched quite often in the course of a show... so, perhaps we should start treating all illnesses of this sort as workplace injuries. |
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| re: Isn’t health insurance through the union | |
| Posted by: ryhog 06:17 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Isn’t health insurance through the union - Singapore/Fling 06:01 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
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| There are, so far as I can tell from what I am reading , two things at play: actors who do not qualify for health insurance because they have not logged enough weeks (a particularly acute issue right now) and who would be covered as workers' comp, and people who are not sick but are isolating due to possible exposure. I don't think it is at all likely this would ever be extended to the flu because "covid is not a bad case of the flu." | |
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| re: Isn’t health insurance through the union | |
| Posted by: Singapore/Fling 06:22 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Isn’t health insurance through the union - ryhog 06:17 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
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| If someone hasn't logged enough weeks but then get a contract, would they still not have insurance through Equity? Or would they have to wait until the next year for the insurance to kick in? God, healthcare is such a disaster in this country... |
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| re: Isn’t health insurance through the union | |
| Posted by: TheHarveyBoy 06:31 am EDT 04/08/21 | |
| In reply to: re: Isn’t health insurance through the union - Singapore/Fling 06:22 pm EDT 04/05/21 | |
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| I believe that an actor has to work 12 weeks in any six months in order to have health insurance coverage the FOLLOWING six months. So, working on a show from January 1 to March 23 gets you six months' coverage starting July 1. Not much good if you get sick in April, or January for that matter. | |
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