Actors’ Equity praised the introduction of a new bill that would offer 100% COBRA health insurance subsidies to workers who have lost coverage during the pandemic.
The Worker Health Coverage Protection Act, introduced Thursday by Senators Dick Durbin (D-IL) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV) and 13 other Democrats, would cover the monthly premium cost of employer-based health plans. Equity and other theatrical unions have been pushing for a COBRA subsidy as industry members continue to lose coverage each month of the shutdown.
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