Health Care and Unions

The Times today has what seems to me an intelligent and balanced article by Steven Greenhouse about what has happened in Indiana since they abolished collective bargaining for state employees six years ago: falling salaries for state employees, some increased efficiency for the government. I noticed that many of the conflicts they talk about have to do with health care--what the state will cover, how much the workers will contribute. Just another example of how much better off we would all be under a single payer, "medicare for everybody" system. Not only is our semi-private system wildly inefficient, it poisons relations between employers and workers.