Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change.

Link: Staying in a job for the health insurance? About 1 in 4 Americans do, a survey says, by Joseph Kim at NPRThis is a striking, but not necessarily surprising, figure from a new survey by the West Health-Gallup Center on Healthcare in America:“A new report finds that nearly a quarter of workers who get health insurance through their jobs report staying in unwanted jobs for health insurance — a figure that's risen dramatically in the last five years.”The figure rises to 41% of people with three or more chronic health conditions. The figure has risen wildly in part because Affordable Care Act subsidies were allowed to expire.I’ll get the soapbox out of the way first: having spent around thirty years of my life in the UK before moving to the US, the thing I miss most is the NHS. It’s been treated like a political football since I left and is apparently a shell of its former self — not because the idea is bad and can’t work but because conservative politicians, some of whom have…