A Shot in the Arm

Universal health insurance, far from suppressing entrepreneurship, could be a boon to it. The main reason for this is a phenomenon known as "job lock," a term coined during the last round of debate over universal health coverage in the early 1990s. Job lock refers to the fact that workers are often unwilling to leave a current job that provides health insurance for another position that might not, even if they would be more productive in that other ... Full Story »

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Kaizar Campwala
3.9
by Kaizar Campwala - Jul. 6, 2009

I really liked this piece. It takes an interesting angle on the economic impact of Health Care reform. But rather than blindly falling in love with the idea of job lock, Gruber discusses it in an even-handed way. Highly recommended.

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