By JIM DWYER, New York Times
Adela Valdez made lamps in a factory at the back of a lighting store on Canal Street in Manhattan. The job paid minimum wage and no benefits. Last month, she got sick but went to work. On her third day of coughing and feeling generally crummy, she was feverish.
I asked the boss for permission to go to the hospital,” said Ms. Valdez, 39, a mother of four. “She said, ‘It’s fine, go — but you don’t have a job anymore.’ ”Now Ms. Valdez works three days a week taking care of an elderly woman.
To questions of cost and coverage, add one more detail to the national debate about health care: time. In
New York, time may be more important than cost. The city’s empire of public hospitals finds ways to serve hundreds of thousands of people who don’t have enough money or lack private insurance. But people who have no health insurance through their jobs are not likely to have paid sick days, either. By some estimates, 765,000 workers in the city do not get paid when they stay home sick. ARTICLE
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