Watch: COVID Patients and Families Battle to Get Benefits

As COVID cases in the U.S. continue to soar, health care workers on the front lines are increasingly getting sick and even dying of the disease. KHN’s Christina Jewett and Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NewsHour discuss what often happens and how some employers evade paying benefits.

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<h1>Watch: COVID Patients and Families Battle to Get Benefits</h1>
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			July 20, 2020		</time>
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<p></p><p>As COVID cases in the U.S. continue to soar, health care workers on the front lines are increasingly getting sick and even dying of the disease. <a href="https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/inside-the-fight-for-denied-compensation-for-healthcare-workers">KHN’s Christina Jewett and Hari Sreenivasan of PBS NewsHour discuss</a> what often happens and how some employers evade paying benefits.</p><ul><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/watch-covid-patients-and-families-battle-to-get-benefits/?share=x">				Click to share on X (Opens in new window)				X			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/watch-covid-patients-and-families-battle-to-get-benefits/?share=facebook">				Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)				Facebook			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/watch-covid-patients-and-families-battle-to-get-benefits/?share=linkedin">				Click to share on LinkedIn (Opens in new window)				LinkedIn			</a></li><li><a href="mailto:?subject=%5BShared%20Post%5D%20Watch%3A%20COVID%20Patients%20and%20Families%20Battle%20to%20Get%20Benefits&body=https%3A%2F%2Fkffhealthnews.org%2FMTEzNzY2Mg&share=email">				Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window)				Email			</a></li><li><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/watch-covid-patients-and-families-battle-to-get-benefits/#print?share=print">				Click to print (Opens in new window)				Print			</a></li><li>				<a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/watch-covid-patients-and-families-battle-to-get-benefits/view/republish/">					Republish This Story				</a>			</li></ul><em><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/about-us">KFF Health News</a> is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Learn more about <a href="https://www.kff.org/about-us">KFF</a>.</em><p><a href="https://kffhealthnews.org/morning-briefing/">Subscribe</a> to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.</p><p>This <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org/news/watch-covid-patients-and-families-battle-to-get-benefits/">article</a> first appeared on <a target="_blank" href="https://kffhealthnews.org">KFF Health News</a> and is republished here under a Creative Commons license.<img src="https://kffhealthnews.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/04/kffhealthnews-icon.png?w=150" style="width:1em;height:1em;margin-left:10px;"><img id="republication-tracker-tool-source" src="https://kffhealthnews.org/?republication-pixel=true&post=1137662&amp;ga4=G-J74WWTKFM0" style="width:1px;height:1px;"></p>

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