How to Structure a "Play-or-Pay" Requirement on Employers: Lessons from California for National Health Reform
June 2009, by Ken Jacobs and Jacob Hacker

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This report analyzes three notable California health-care reform proposals and uses lessons learned in California to detail how "play-or-pay" requirements on employers could be structured in a national health-care reform plan. The report was jointly written with the Berkeley Center on Health, Economic & Family Security (Berkeley CHEFS).

Academics on Employee Free Choice: Multidisciplinary Approaches to Labor Law Reform
May 2009, edited by John Logan

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This report includes 13 essays on the Employee Free Choice Act, labor law, and unionization by professors and experts at nine universities and colleges throughout California. It addresses such topics as problems with current U.S. labor law; the potential impact of labor law reform on the economy; and how unionization affects such industries as the long-term care sector. Its contributors hail from UC Berkeley, UC Davis, University of Southern California, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Santa Barbara, UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, and Occidental College.