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Single-Payer: Good for Business

Mintz, Morton | November 15, 2004 issue

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Suggest that corporate America turns its back on a publicly financed health care system, which, by all indicators, the taxpayers would willingly support. Evidence showing that countries with national health care are more competitive; Suggestion that publicly financed but privately run healthcare for all, including free choice of physicians, would cost employers far less in taxes than their costs for insurance; Benefits of universal coverage; Alleged shrinkage of healthcare coverage under the Bush administration; Reference to the fact that health insurance is increasingly unaffordable; Description of publicly financed universal health insurance.

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MEDICAL care; HEALTH insurance; MEDICINE, State; PUBLIC health; BUSINESS enterprises -- United States; FREE enterprise; UNITED States
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