Employers and Health Insurance

In a recent post at Managed Care Matters, Joseph Paduda discusses the link between employers and the health insurance they offer. He thinks that the reason employers offer health insurance is the important link between health and productivity.

In fact, he states this of the topic:

Keeping workers, and their families, healthy and productive is the primary objective of health insurance

There is another reason employers offer good health insurance: to attract and keep good workers. At the end of the article, he points out that if the system were to reform to individuals choosing policies, health care agencies would have no companies would be responsible for choosing a carrier. As a result, insurance companies would win out, and lower premiums would result in poorer care.