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Comments on 'The Risk Pool' by Malcolm Gladwell
The New Yorker via Physicians for a National Health Program [PNHP] Link to more items from this source
[Opinion]
Aug. 29, 2006

Excerpt: '(UAW president Walter) Reuther and his brain trust had a theory of capitalism,' Nelson Lichtenstein, the Reuther biographer, says. 'It was: If we force G.M. to pay extra (for employee benefits), we can create an incentive for G.M. to join our side (in broadly collectivizing risk beyond individual employers).'  MORE >>

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