Results of the Health Care for Health Care Workers Bill

The support that KVO and its allies on the DCWC generated helped to keep the bill alive into the second session of the Legislature.  Due to a state budget crisis and uncertainty about the future of the state-funded insurance product that would have covered the workers, the bill was eventually killed in committee. However, several legislators indicated an interest in revisiting the issue in the 2009 session, and the chair of the Insurance Committee directed the state’s Insurance Commissioner to form a task force to explore other options for getting health insurance for direct care workers. Three KVO leaders (two direct care workers and a consumer) were appointed to the commission, which meets this summer.

Click here to read an article about the early progress of this committee.

More to come...