After the government begins subsidizing your operating costs through providing your employees healthcare would you raise your employees salary to reflect the compensation for their labor they lose by you not providing healthcare costs for them?
If (and it’s a big if), healthcare wasn’t tied to employers, that would free up people to be more mobile, in terms of jobs they could/would take.
The cost for employers for providing healthcare to their employees would be nullified.
That’s another thread...
We’re the biggest, baddest country on Earth, but we can’t seem to provide basic healthcare to our own citizens?
Make no mistake, if we could just get the entire US population to a PCP, the cost of doing that would be paid back twice with all the nonsense we wouldn’t have to pay for.
We’re paying it right now...folks go to the ER, we pay.
Indigent American citizens are on the dole, they get diabetes, we pay.
Opiod addicted SOB’s end up in the hospital, we pay.
Etc.
It’s a hot mess...my assertion is that we’d end up saving money by instituting some form of ‘Medicare for All’.
Call it what you want, we’re losing dollars in our misplaced adventure to save a nickel.