Med school postdocs criticize health benefits changes

Nearly 70 Harvard Medical School postdoctoral fellows, professors, and administrators signed a letter arguing that recent changes to the University’s health benefits plan may disproportionately burden Harvard postdocs, whose salaries are often lower than many other non-union employees'. Michael Chernew, Leonard D. Schaeffer Professor of Health Care Policy, is quoted. Kristin Krukenberg, research fellow in systems biology, and Rebeccah Lijek, research fellow in microbiology and molecular genetics, are quoted.

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