> Hi all, I was in part motivated to sign up for
> this list to further explore the question
> posed by Henwood to La Botz about why the big
> 3 auto companies and other industries have not
> advocated for a national health care plan. In
> addition, it would seem that a national health
> care system would benefit a range of small
> businesses and other big ones like Walmart as
> well.
>
> So I wonder, is what is standing in the way
> purely an adherence to a dogmatic ideological
> commitment to oppose anything remotely
> "socialistic"?
For one, employer-based health care is a source of employee dependence. The greater the dependence of the employee, the greater the leverage for the employer.
That said, you'd think there were some threshold of costs where even this advantage isn't worth the financial burden.
Shane