News Summary

• In the United States, employers hold one lever no other developed economy grants them: the ability to tie a family's access to medical care to an employee's continued compliance.
• That asymmetry has a name in game theory, and it isn’t “benefits.” It’s coercion.
• Every culture initiative, every engagement survey, every pizza party lands on top of that coercion architecture and changes nothing.
• The phenomenon — workers remaining in jobs they want to leave because leaving means losing healthcare — has been studied since the 1990s.