We don't hear enough in the health care debate about the real problem underpinning health care: the luxury for health providers to discriminate among potential employees based not upon their demonstrated ability to perform a job but a theoretical calculation of how their performance will be affected by unknown future health.

This article from USA Today, Rx for Our Corporate Culture makes the case, if in a roundabout way that suggests an attempt to fill a space for an editorial, so I will excerpt the essential contention:
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So how would reforming health care coverage change corporate culture? Imagine a shift in health care coverage that de-couples it from your job. It's only a historical accident of President Franklin Roosevelt and the New Deal that coverage ever was linked to employment. Now, what if a Kennedy-Schwarzenegger reform movement — backed by a Democratic Congress that in the past has been willing to think of "portable insurance" that travels with each individual — can offer health care security to all Americans, even those stuck in dead-end jobs?


Poorly performing companies have gotten a bye on health care, able to use it as an excuse for their lack of competitiveness.

If they had to compete independent of that single cost they might seek employees who could just do the job.