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

To: Lane3 who wrote (19981)	11/12/2010 9:12:34 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 42652

Certainly unions would not have initiated the notion of negotiating for health care in lieu of salary. While employer sponsored care evolved "in lieu" of salary, I don't doubt unions would have pressed for it in ADDITION to salary. After all, it is has become a huge issue for them now. The inference is that unions would never have pushed for health care at all if someone hadn't had the bright idea of using it in lieu of salary. I don't think that's likely. Health care and other benefits would have become a sweetener at some point either way. The wage freeze precipitated it at a point in time, but I bet it would have evolved, if a little more slowly.