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Is Employer-Based Health Insurance Worth Saving?
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| Contributor | Servo |
| Last Edited | Servo Dec 29, 2009 07:34am |
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| Category | Commentary |
| Author | UWE E. REINHARDT |
| News Date | Friday, May 22, 2009 01:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Ask any group of health policy experts whether they would have put in place our employment-based health insurance system, had they had the luxury of designing our health system from scratch, the resounding answer most likely would be “No.” In fact, no other industrialized country has quite this arrangement. It is uniquely American in origin and in modus operandi.
Our employment-based system was not the product of a carefully designed health policy. It was a byproduct of evading wage controls during World War II. |
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