Health Insurance A Brief History - The Impact of Obamacare

This book will provide the reader with a brief overview of the history of American health care and
the debates it creates:
• Issues surrounding health insurance fuel and ?ame labor negotiations in America.
• Health insurance is the key bene?t an employee desires.
• What are the origins of work-related health insurance and why does it take the particular shape that
Americans are presently familiar with?
• Health insurance has been a wedge political issue since the early decades of the 20th century.
• Why is this so-welcomed bene?t, desired by all, used so divisively in American politics?
• Why is America’s concept of health insurance so different from Canada’s and Europe’s?