health insurance

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• SOURCE: Vox
  8/24/2021
  

  How the "Job" Became the Center of American Life

  "Since about the 1940s, Americans have been encouraged to look to their jobs for nearly all of life’s necessities: a living wage, health insurance, and retirement benefits, as well as intangibles like friendship, identity, and a sense of purpose." Historians Nelson Lichtenstein and James Livingston explain why. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  6/14/2021
  

  Our Insurance Dystopia

  by Caley Horan

  America's health insurance morass is a result of the replacement of the ideal of mutual, universal risk sharing with the privatization of risk in pursuit of profit. 

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• SOURCE: TomDispatch
  4/21/2020
  

  Inequality and the Coronavirus

  by Liz Theoharis

  Here’s the simple truth of twenty-first-century America: all of us live in a time and in an economic system that values our lives relative to our ability to produce profits for the rich or in the context of the wealth we possess.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/10/2020
  

  Strikes and Attack Ads: The Hard Roads to Universal Health Care

  by Quoctrung Bui and Sarah Kliff

  Mr. Sanders is right: All these countries provide universal coverage. But what he doesn’t talk about is the excruciating battle they went through to get there.

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• 8-23-15
  

  Worried About Big Insurance Company Mergers? You Should Be.

  by Christy Ford Chapin

  What history tells us is that the system is broken.