Not enough attention is paid to the ill-health of our Industries because they must pay for health insurance, while in competing countries it is covered by the government. USA Today - hardly a left-wing rag - published a study showing a direct correlation between company healthcare costs & declining competitiveness. Take THAT, right-wing ideologues! |
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Scott Baker is a Managing Editor & The Economics Editor at Opednews, and a former blogger for Huffington Post, Daily Kos, and Global Economic Intersection.
His anthology of updated Opednews articles "America is Not Broke" was published by Tayen Lane Publishing (March, 2015) and may be found here:
http://www.americaisnotbroke.net/
Scott is a former and current President of Common Ground-NY (http://commongroundnyc.org/), a Geoist/Georgist activist group. He has written dozens of (more...)