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Michael Cannon on Employer-Sponsored Health Care

The Great Antidote

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Health Insurance in the United States

Most Americans have health insurance through an employer where your employer offers you health insurance as part of your compensation package. There is a small market 20 million people or fewer who buy insurance directly from insurance companies those are now for the most part very heavily regulated and subsidized by the government. We've got these large government programs that effectively provide health insurance for different segments of the population and so purchase medical care on their behalf.

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