STAT June 23, 2025
Kevin A. Schulman, Wasan Kumar

Tariffs can’t fix employers’ health care costs

The Trump administration continues to pursue the most aggressive tariff policies since the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930. The intent of this trade war is to reshore a wide variety of American industries. Reshoring seeks to redress the economic harms that resulted from a systematic effort to move manufacturing to lower-cost labor markets abroad, a process that has been occurring for several decades.

But in the national debate over offshoring and reshoring, and the factors that lead to our current situation, one issue has been...

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Topics: Congress / White House, Employer, Govt Agencies, Healthcare System, Pricing / Spending
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