motherjones.com - 5/28/2009
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Over at the Washington Monthly , Jonathan Gruber writes that universal healthcare would create more fluid job markets and spur entrepreneurship: The main reason for this is a phenomenon known as "job lock," a term coined during the last round of debate over universal health coverage in the early ...
thehill.com - 5/28/2009
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thehill.com —
Centrist Democratic Sen. Ben Nelson (Neb.) is under
attack from an advertising campaign that criticizes his opposition
to President Obama’s healthcare plan. The Web and direct-mail ads specifically take on Nelson for opposing Obama’s proposal to ...
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Centrist Dem under fire for opposing Obama healthcare
swamppolitics.com - 5/29/2009
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swamppolitics.com —
by Mark Silva The word from Air Force
One, returning today from a West Coast party fundraising
event, is that President Barack Obama put out an airborne telephone call to a coalition of supporters widely known as the permanent campaign. ...
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Obama: Healthcare reform now or never
politicalnewslive.blogspot.com - 6/4/2009
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Job Lock
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Drum comments on Jonathan Gruber's article regarding Americans afraid to leave their jobs because of the healthcare plans: ...
5/29: Oh, Tancredo
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... (h/t Kevin Drum ): "Universal health insurance, far from suppressing entrepreneurship, could be a boon to it. The main reason for this is a phenomenon known as 'job lock,' a term coined during the last round of debate over universal health coverage in the early 1990s. Job lock refers to the fact that workers are often unwilling to leave a current job that provides health insurance for another position that might not, even if they would be more productive in that other position. This is because employer-provided insurance is traditionally the only reliable form of fairly ...
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