Akron Beacon Journal

Phillip Longman, writing in the most recent issue of the Washington Monthly, proposes contracting with high-quality, lower-cost nonprofit health-care systems, the likes of Kaiser Permanente and the Mayo Clinic, to handle the Medicare population. ...

...According to a study by the New America Foundation, 60 percent of Americans receive their health-care benefits through their employers, and those employers spend an average of 11.5 percent of payroll on health care, compared with only 4.9 percent among our major trade partners (Canada, Japan, Germany, France and the United Kingdom)...