Next Shift with Gabriel Winant
The Dig
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The Health Care System in a Place Like Pittsburgh
Strikes in a few of those contract cycles, thay, they win a lot of gains on the health care side. By 19 50, the 19 59 strike, by the time it's settled, steel workers make no contribution to their premiums. And so this generates political pressure to pass what would become medicare and medicate. But i think what's important about those programmes is that they don't displace in any they can a corps, public private bargain that's driving the growth of the health care system. They don't interfere with it. They have the government step in instead for people who cannot get it through their jobs.
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