Why Your Health Care Is Tied to Your Job
Channel: Common Sense Soapbox
Date: 2021-06-08

In this episode of Common Sense Soapbox, Seamus explains to Bob the history of American health care, how 90% of private insurance came to be provided through employers as a result of WWII-era price controls and tax exemptions, and how decoupling insurance from employment could be the start of a better system.
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CREDITS: 
Written by Seamus Coughlin and Sean W. Malone w/ support from Tyler Brandt, Matt Hampton, and Phil Magness
Storyboards by Ghost Boy
Animation by Seamus Coughlin, Natasha Borrero, Caleb Black, Jaime Velasquez, Amazil
Produced & Edited by Sean W. Malone
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LINKS:
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=114045132
https://www.post-gazette.com/healthypgh/2014/04/27/VITALS-How-did-U-S-employer-based-health-care-history-become-what-it-is-today/stories/201404150167
https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/77425/654_ftp.pdf?sequence=1
https://www.healio.com/news/endocrinology/20120325/penicillin-an-accidental-discovery-changed-the-course-of-medicine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stabilization_Act_of_1942
https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-obamacare-health-care-employers-20170224-story.html
https://gusto.com/blog/health-insurance/employer-contribution-health-insurance
https://www.realclearhealth.com/articles/2019/07/24/bringing_more_competition_to_health_insurance_110931.html