Additionally, she poses the idea that we as a society should sever the relationship between work and health insurance. I hadn't before seriously thought about such a concept since health insurance had been so intimately linked to employment my entire life. This monogamous marriage just turned into an open relationship. Consider.mind.blown. But it is nonsense to think that those who do not have a traditional job are "slackers" or somehow unworthy of health insurance. Professor Williams believes that the dependency of health insurance on employment stifles job freedom, risk-taking, innovation and creative productivity. Are we holding back a generation? Why do we have the system set up the way it is anyway? She traces the outdated employer health insurance model back to the WWII era -- a period when folks worked at the same company until retirement (basically ancient history...does that even exist today?) and employers received serious tax benefits.
Times have really changed. So should health coverage.
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