Health Care. Dry and political. Clogged in the spin machinery like a sock wedged in the dryer door. Pick your side, choose your partisan weapon and heave upon anyone who will listen. With all this chattering about who profits and who pays, you won’t hear this bottom line: Social Health Care is the spark needed to ignite the renaissance of the American workforce.
From the people I’ve talked to, health care is a big reason why people stay in jobs they dislike. They so fear spending even short periods without coverage that they remain paralyzed, unable to migrate to a job that is better aligned with their pursuit of happiness. The resulting workforce is a bureaucratic bulge that’s inefficient and uninspired. The fundamental goal of the employment system should be matching person to position so that both are optimized. Free people from the fear of ever going uncovered and watch a new work ethic be born. That’s Killing It.
Instead, he then made the mistake of batting him where his skills would be the least valuable, the six hole, and finally, demoted him to the bench for not driving in runs despite having had precious few opportunities to do so in the season’s first two months.