Insurance-related issues abound

Here are three other highlights of the survey, which was published May 24:

More than one-third (35%) of respondents don't know what kind of insurance they would be able to use to pay for expenses if they were to get long COVID or another chronic illness for longer than three months.
One-fifth (21%) of respondents think they would be able to use unemployment insurance or workers' compensation if they contracted long COVID. However, these types of insurance likely wouldn't be available to them, according to the report's authors. Unemployment insurance is only available if the individual is available to work, and workers' comp may be available to some health care workers who contract COVID-19 but is unlikely to pay out for most people, Policygenius reports.
Another one-fifth of respondents (18%) expect to rely on Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI), for which someone with a condition with no definitive prognosis (like long COVID-19) would only be eligible once they were out of work for one year, according to the report.

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