January 30, 2007
Katherine Baicker on the President’s Health Care Tax Initiative
What are the economic drawbacks of our current employer-provided health insurance system? How did World War II price and wage controls help create the current system, and what should be done now to reform it?
In this informative podcast, Katherine Baicker, a member of President Bush's Council of Economic Advisers, an associate professor of public policy at the School of Public Affairs at UCLA, and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, discusses the President's health care reform plan, the ways it would address the inequities of our current system, its effect on tax burdens, and its potential impact on Social Security benefits and the long-run solvency of the Social Security system. (13 minutes, 34 seconds)
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