Executive Briefings | February 24, 2017
What Does Minimum Wage Have To Do With Health Policy?
For the past eight years, we’ve had a national discussion about the affordability of health coverage and what Americans should pay for (or not pay for) their coverage. And we’re about to embark on more robust discussion of that question when the Republican administration proposes “alternatives” to the Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act (PPACA).
But I don’t think this discussion should happen in a vacuum. There are underlying economic issues: For example, what is a “living wage” in the United States? Does the living wage include enough money to purchase health insurance? Does our current health . . .