Frontline will tackle the problems in the American health care system tonight with a program titled "Sick Around America" on KCTS-9 at 9 p.m. And while it will focus on the millions of people who are uninsured or under insured, it also will hold up Microsoft's health benefits as a positive example.
The press release notes:
At its best, American health care can be very good. For Microsoft employee Mark Murray and his wife, Melinda, their employee health plan paid for eight years of fertility treatments and covered all the costs of a very complicated pregnancy. “If it wasn’t for our health insurance,” Murray says, “we wouldn’t have a baby boy right now.” The Murrays’ medical bills totaled between $500,000 and $1 million, and their plan covered every penny.
But beyond large, high-wage employers like Microsoft, FRONTLINE learns that available, affordable, adequate insurance is becoming hard to find.
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