Economics & Inequality Retirement Security Education Health Care Homeland Security Election Reform Media & Politics International Affairs TCF Project Sites: Donate to TCF Join our Listserv  Taking Note Home About TCF News Room Join our Listserv America's Achilles Heel: Job-Based Health Coverage and the Uninsured     Email    Printer-Friendly Leif Wellington Haase, Cari Reiner, The Century Foundation, 6/21/2004 Download in PDF format America’s system of employment-based health insurance has many disadvantages: it leaves many citizens without coverage; it results in great expense to taxpayers as uncompensated care is covered by federal and state government; and it either burdens companies with the expense of insurance or encourages companies to drop or limit coverage. America’s Achilles’ Heel looks at these problems and offers remedy in the form of models for universal or near-universal health care. Read other reports in the Reality Check series here. Edition: Online/Paper    Pages: 12    Price: $3.50 Copyright 2010 The Century Foundation. Privacy Policy NY Office: 41 East 70th Street—New York, New York—10021—Phone:212-535-4441—212-879-9197 DC Office: 1333 H Street, NW—10th Floor— Washington, D.C. 20005— Phone: 202-387-0400— Fax: 202-483-9430