Amazon has a finger in every pot — including health care.
This is why we need to treat care work as a public good, meaning a good or service that functions best when made readily available to all members of society and where there is not competition among consumers to receive or use it. A classic example is roads. We all use them, and they are best maintained through public upkeep. Critically, the public provision of public goods is sensible because they have positive externalities, meaning they generate economic activity and growth.
We all need to be cared for at some point in our lives, so the need for care work is universal. And providing adequate care has many positive externalities: It ensures children can develop to be happy, productive adults and the elderly can maintain independence without relying too much on their families.
Workers in states that had more generous expansion of Medicaid were more likely to switch into higher paying jobs because they weren’t worried about a coverage gap.finds that workers in states that had more generous expansion of Medicaid following the Affordable Care Act were more likely to switch into higher paying jobs when they were healthy because they weren’t worried about falling into a coverage gap. But expanding health care access requires ensuring health care workers are paid well.
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