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 »
Posted by Derek Hawkins
The crucial points that Gruber makes about the effects of "job lock" are getting almost no attention in mainstream media coverage of health care reform; this topic should be much more widely reported on.