Michelle Miller
Googlecare
Forget Medical Insurance: welcome to the Employer-based Everything System.One of the most interesting side effects of the Obamacare debate has been the reporting on the history of health insurance in America, and how it came to be so predominately employer-based. The NY Times gave a great overview of it here (http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/is-employer-based-health-insurance-worth-saving/), but the long and short of it is that healthcare was a fringe benefit that companies offered to employees to make their compensation packages more attractive after the…Michelle Miller4 min read