Promoting Worker Health: A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century - Softcover

Nortin M. Hadler (author) & Stephen P. Carter (author)

 
9781469650968: Promoting Worker Health: A New Approach to Employee Benefits in the Twenty-First Century
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1469650967 ISBN 13: 9781469650968
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018

Synopsis

In this extended essay, Nortin M. Hadler and Stephen P. Carter introduce a new approach to reforming the American health-care system-a plan they call the Universal Workers' Compensation Model (UWCM). Drawing on Hadler's expertise as a physician and Carter's as an attorney, the two have conceived the UWCM as a state-level alternative that would supersede current solutions debated at the national level. They begin by summarizing the history and present complexity and irrationality of America's health-insurance system. They then lay out the key concepts underlying the UWCM regime and the practical policy steps necessary to enact it. At the heart of the UWCM is a broader understanding of what constitutes worker's health, one grounded in scientific research and cognizant of the wide range of physical and mental illnesses that can afflict workers. The UWCM stipulates a single policy providing rational and reasoned recourse for universal risks: illness, injury, disability, and death.

Presenting their ideas with precision in this 34-page pamphlet, Hadler and Carter intend to spark discussion among health-care providers, insurers, legislators, and everyday citizens about how we might move beyond the limits of the current debate toward new, truly effective solutions.

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About the Author

Nortin M. Hadler, M.D., M.A.C.P., M.A.C.R., F.A.C.O.E.M., is professor emeritus of medicine and microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and attending rheumatologist at UNC Hospitals. He is author of several books, including Stabbed in the Back: Confronting Back Pain in an Overtreated Society and Rethinking Aging: Growing Old and Living Well in an Overtreated Society.

Stephen P. Carter is an attorney in Arkansas.

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Publisher
The University of North Carolina Press
Publication date
2018
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1469650967
ISBN 13 
9781469650968
Binding
Paperback
Edition number
1
Number of pages
34