That's a mixed bag. American companies complain that their European competitors have a edge on them because they do not have to provide health care since govs in Europe do that. One of the arguments in favor of single payer is that it would make our industry more competitive by shifting the cost of health care away from employers and on to gov.
And then you have an American healthcare system like the one in England that gave us the recent soap opera with Charlie Gard. At that point you have the government not only picking life's winners and losers but who lives and dies as well. Not cool at all.
With O care we've seen employers have to cut hours and cut employees to be able to afford the impossible burden the ACA puts on them and stay in business.
If we get rid of Obamacare and return healthcare to a truly free market system...IMO there wouldn't be any real complaint because then employers could tailor the healthcare package they can afford and/or need to their business...or they could choose not to offer one at all. Right now they don't have that freedom and they should.
I have not yet made up my mind on that, but Ocare must go, and I do not like the idea of a single payer system.
Agree 100%
Back in the day the mere mention of Socialized Medicine was likely to get you a punch in the nose.
I remember as a kid when my dad worked for Phillips Petroleum at their HQ in Bartlesville, OK that they had their own in in house medical staff. Employees were required to have a physical once a year and could go get treatment from the doc if they weren't feeling well.
But then my doctor was a 10 minute car ride away in the same neighborhood where we lived too.