If we are to expect our doctors, nurses and healthcare workers to serve on the front-lines and fight this battle with Covid-19 in our nation; they need to know we as Americans have their back if they get sick.
Many states, including Florida, have not passed comprehensive legislation to ensure medical coverage and ongoing treatment for our non-public healthcare workers who contract Covid-19. In fact, many states and insurance companies have placed the burden of proof on the healthcare worker to prove their illness came from work; which is nearly impossible given the everchanging CDC list of Covid-19 symptoms, false negative/positive test results, and non-uniformity of exhibited symptoms from patient to patient.
Our doctors and nurses are getting sick with Covid-19; some dying, and others being hospitalized for long-term debilitating illnesses. These modern day heroes are even being forced to bankruptcy while they are left applying for public assistance programs, hoping it will afford them the healthcare coverage they so desperately need for their resulting disabilities after being infected with this disease.
We have a duty to those who are tirelessly continuing to work to ensure the health and safety of every citizen of our states and our country, both in the public and private sector.
Sign this petition now, to show your support of state and federal legislation that will provide healthcare coverage to doctors and nurses who contract Covid-19 during this pandemic; and lets all fight to change the burdens of proof from the healthcare worker to the insurance companies, so our covid-19 Heroes, are not left with the unjust burden of proving that they contracted Covid-19 while serving ourselves and our families in their selfless lines of duty.