Employer health care mandate would make a terrible system worse

By Grace-Marie Turner

Thursday, September

The fight over the “public option” has obscured debate on an element of congressional health reform plans that would be equally consequential and equally threatening to many Americans: the “pay-or-play” mandate.

Rather than changing one of the worst features of American health care – the fact that insurance is almost always tied to employment – it would carve that fact in stone. If that weren’t bad enough, it would threaten to drag down wages and kill jobs in the process by driving up costs for employers

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