Doesn't gov't funded healthcare HELP business both large and small?

Don't factories open in Canada because they don't have to provide health care to its' employees?

Business and management types are pretty clear-eyed by now about the fact that the relation of employer to employee is a hostile one. To have the maximum advantage, they want their employees to be helpless as possible, and to have no place they can turn for help against the employer. Since the government is the natural resort of citizens for redress, they want people to think of the government as something somehow smaller than their immediate boss, that has neither the will nor the capacity to help them. Anything that will make their employees feel the government is doing well by them, cares about them, and is bigger than the boss, the businessman wants to discourage and prevent. If doctor visits for the kids, treatment of injury and illness, comes from the government, this will undermine the mental world the businessman wants his employees to function within. It would open up dread possibilities, like real enforcement of safety and labor laws, even actual anti-trust action, which the businessman wants to forestall at all costs.

But the insurance companies don't want to relax that death grip they have on Americans.

If the auto industry, for example, has been so strapped by health care costs (and pensions), publicly provided health plans could make all the difference in the world.

Small businesses, too.

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A proper education helps, too. One that deals in facts, not faith.

If health insurance is available from the government, it is predictable that many businesses will drop their company plan and direct their employees to join the public one.

If that turns out to be true, it's GREAT for future profitability to the extent that employee benefits are a cost of doing business.

Yet here are conservative voices which are normally the greatest apologists for capitalistic profit complaining about an opportunity to improve the bottom line.

I find it very ironic and hypocritical.