Millions of out-of-work Americans lose their health insurance

the health scares daniela skini has faced over the past year are terrifying fighting cancer she was without insurance for five days in March while her husband changed jobs in that short window she got covered 19 and had to be hospitalized I went online and I saw the bill which was thirty five thousand dollars and it just made my head explode and that is only for kovat 19 treatments even though the president approved a bill to provide emergency funding to

cover some costs a skinny found out the hard way it's far from a blanket policy you have to apply for every other type of aid that you can possibly apply for first and they have to deny you and that takes weeks then the hospital's can forgive the cost but it is up to the hospitals there's no guidelines her bill has not been forgiven as a public health advocate she also worries about the millions of Americans who've lost jobs and subsequently their health insurance

in this pandemic a new study found of the 27 million newly unemployed in March and April 21 million will qualify for some form of public health care coverage meaning six million are now without health insurance my fear is that we're going to have a second wave of suffering as a result of people going without needed health care because they can no longer afford it it's a fear shared by this Detroit doctor who is hearing from patients fearful to seek treatment

they're telling me oh you know when I was really sick last month I probably had to prove it I almost felt like I was gonna die and I was well you didn't call us to go the hospital no I knew there wasn't a cure for it and I was scared to go to the hospital when I was scared of medical bills before coronavirus polls showed most Americans liked the health care coverage they had through their employer but with the jobs crisis deepening the public mood may shift Katy Simpson CBC News Washington