Amazon Joins Trend of Sending Workers Away for Health Care

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Amazon now pays for employees to get cancer care in California and expects to save on health-care costs, despite added travel expenses

One of the latest is Amazon.com Inc.

, which will pay travel costs for workers diagnosed with cancer who choose to see doctors at City of Hope, a Los Angeles-area health system. More than 380,000 of the Seattle-based company’s employees and families across the U.S. are eligible for the travel benefit.

Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)

 

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Wonder what’s the survival rate for them compared to those who chose their own doctors? If it’s comparable then not so bad.

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Sure would be nice if we didn't have to use the medical facilities that Amazon picks for us. If only they paid the taxes they are supposed to be paying, maybe we could use our local doctors and surgeons and oncologists and not be forced to uproot by cancerous capitalists.

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