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Gabriel Winant: From the Factory to the Hospital

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The Relationship Between Health Care and Employment

In the United States, as you say, we linked healthcare to employment. The labor movement that pioneered the relationship between your job and your health insurance. And so when the industrialization this is the key argument of the world be alluded to and the industrialization strikes places like Pittsburgh, it produces a population produces a population that is older and poorer and sicker. It's older because there is a secular decline of industrial employment over the entire post 1950 period. There are no jobs for people in their 70s and 80s who might have helped out once but now they're moving away due to austerity. This means one group on the population becomes more dependent on government handouts than ever before. But

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