Abstract
For decades, health policy analysts have voiced their disdain for employer-based health insurance. In 1961, Herman and Anne Somers referred to the system as the "'shotgun' marriage of medical care and industrial relations" (Somers and Somers 1961, 227). Critics routinely belittle job-based coverage as an unfortunate historical accident, the by-product of shortlived wartime wage and price controls that moved compensation toward such benefits (Hyman and Hall 2001). Analysts today see the dismantling of this illogical, inefficient institution as an essential step toward the development of universal, equitable health insurance in the United States (Fuchs 1994).
Original language | English (US) |
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Title of host publication | Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care |
Publisher | Rutgers University Press |
Pages | 37-52 |
Number of pages | 16 |
Volume | 9780813541099 |
ISBN (Electronic) | 9780813541099 |
ISBN (Print) | 0813535778, 9780813535777 |
State | Published - 2005 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- General Social Sciences