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Articles by Brenda Rushforth

Should Public Health Care Replace Employer-Sponsored Insurance?

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By Richard Master, Brenda Rushforth
| HR Quarterly Verified
The current system is an albatross around the neck of American businesses. Employer-based health insurance in the U.S. is the result of a quirk of history. During World War II, U.S. companies competed for a limited pool of workers. Fearing crippling  wage inflation, the federal government imposed a wage freeze. To recruit workers, companies began offering health insurance as a benefit, which the government then made tax-exempt. Now, employer-provided health insurance covers 152 million Americans.
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Employer-Sponsored Health Plans versus the Potential of a Government-sponsored plan - What’s the Answer?

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By Brenda Rushforth
| SHRM HR News Verified
As an HR practitioner with more than 35 years of experience in benefits design, I often wonder if there was an easier way to administer health care in our country. I quickly talk myself out of that thinking, especially working in California. Since the Affordable Care Act (ACA) repeal and replace efforts are off the table for the foreseeable future, there’s a new health care debate taking shape in the Halls of the Capitol in Washington, DC.
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