One important takeaway from this piece is that putting employers in charge of providing health insurance is a terrible idea. Paul Carr shouldn't need to _make an effort_ to make sure his employees have basic health protections - that should be a solved problem.
yes unfortunately back in the 50's the big auto companies did a deal to include healthcare as part of wage negotiations. Which derailed the USA's progression to a German style model of healthcare.
If you talk to Alan Mulally and any on the AFL-CIO off the record they would agree - that in hind sight it was a bad deal both for the workers and the employers.
Which has the curious drawback that those most able to contribute to it (i.e. those earning more than X €/month) are allowed to opt-out of it. I never quite understood why this would have to be the case, and the various attempts to introduce an actual public health insurance system failed so far.
