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Politics : A US National Health Care System? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: i-node who wrote (19977)	11/12/2010 12:27:42 AM
From: dybdahl	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

So employer-healthcare is a result of government intervention? ;-)

To: i-node who wrote (19977)	11/12/2010 7:47:01 AM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 42652

I just think it is very difficult to imagine how this would not have happened in the US at some point. At the time I guess it would have been considered a fairly progressive thing. I don't know about that. I don't see it as a natural extension of salary. I can see companies naturally having health services at their facilities much like schools have nurses or workout facilities but not substituting externally provided health care for salaries. Certainly unions would not have initiated the notion of negotiating for health care in lieu of salary. And there were no models out there in other countries that US companies might have copied. Other countries deliver health care either through the government or the marketplace. It could have happened naturally but I don't see it as promising let alone likely. It may be progressive but there is no natural path to it.