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One detail I don't remember seeing in the Op-Ed piece was health care differences between countries. In the countries our auto companies compete against, I beli
by bpyne 18y ago
One detail I don't remember seeing in the Op-Ed piece was health care differences between countries. In the countries our auto companies compete against, I believe all of them have health care at the national level. Right there, you have a major cost businesses in the US are absorbing.
- jdminhbg 18y agoIn both Japan and Germany, health care is mandated by the government but paid for by the employer. See e.g. http://www.nchc.org/facts/Japan.pdf http://www.nchc.org/facts/Japan.pdf
- bpyne 18y agoThanks for the link. I read the one on Germany as well. It seems more like a combination of employer and employee payment with the governments being involved as a single payer system - in the case of Germany.