Heavy lifting which explains why Wyden (and the others) did what they did, to include high administrative costs, inequitable sharing of costs, inability to cover large segments of the population, and the inability of employers to make health care more cost-effective:


Sara Collins, "Whither Employer-Based Health Insurance?" Commonwealth Fund: 2007

Sherry Glied and Bisundev Mahato, "The Widening Health Care Gap between High- an

Reinhardt, "Employer-Based Health Insurance: A Balance Sheet." Health Affairs:

Steffie Woolhandler and David Himmelstein, "Paying for National Health Insurance