Questioning An Unsustainable Relic In U.S. Healthcare

Commentator Ross Douthat writing in the New York Times makes the case that the compromise resulting in Obamacare included an “unsustainable relic” that critics from both left and right would like to see retired: the idea that health care should be the responsibility of the employer. Advocating the severance of this bond has been something of a third rail for politicians, but the recent postponement of the employer mandate may be a step toward opening it to scrutiny.