Leave Your Job, Take Your Insurance
A year or so ago, I wrote about Sen. Ron Wyden’s, D-Ore., health care plan—a proposal alarming in its simplicity, feasibility and overall evenhandedness.
Despite these liabilities, Wyden’s campaign is getting some traction and is even airing the following ad, which calls attention to the most irritating part of our current health care system: the fact that, for most Americans with insurance, coverage is tied to the workplace. This tie—a leftover from WWII wage controls—has the effect of stifling not only personal freedom, but also the entire American economy.
Check it out.
