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Workers And Their Health Plans: Free To Choose?

William White, in his Pulitzer prize–winning book The Making of the President, 1964, noted the paradoxical clashing of cultures during the mid-1960s over the word freedom. To the civil rights movement, led by Martin Luther King, freedom meant the right to eat in a restaurant and sleep in a hotel, regardless of race. To the libertarian movement, led by Barry Goldwater, freedom meant the ability to run one’s own business as one saw fit, without intrusion from government.

In the 1990s the word choice constituted an emotional rallying cry for both the political left and right. The right advocated . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Changes in health plan choice, 1988–2001.Fluctuating pattern.Impact of firm size.Factors affecting choice of health plans in 2001.

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