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 flame labor negotiations in America.

• Health insurance is the key benefit 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 benefit, 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?