With Job-Based Healthcare Ailing, It May Be Time to Seek a Cure

When organized labor's most inventive union president and the Republican lawmaker in line to chair the powerful House Ways and Means Committee are both touting the same revolutionary idea, it may be time to bend an ear.... ...both believe it's time to replace the central arch of the American healthcare system: the link between health insurance and work. Their arguments may represent the opening notes of the first significant domestic debate of the 2008 ... Full Story »

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Richard Carlson
4.2
by Richard Carlson - Oct. 1, 2008

This a well written story giving the history of how employer-based heathcare become the norm and why it may be time to close it out. It uses quotes from two leaders who normally agree on nothing to show there may be a common ground leading towards health insurance reform. These was effectively backed up by excerpts from an essay by Jason Furman.

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