Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance in the United States -Origins and Implications

摘要

In other words, employer-sponsored insurance is a cornerstone of the U.S. health care system, as vital in some ways to the health care of Americans as the drugs, devices, and medical services that the insurance covers. Employer-sponsored insurance has been described as the equivalent of "private social security,"3 and if it were suddenly to disappear, chaos would certainly result: the health of patients throughout the United States would be jeopardized, and physicians' income would plummet.