Are you sure healthcare was mandated for employers?
I worked for a outfit from 1969 through 1974 and there was no health insurance offered by the employer.
Next question...as you are surely aware, about 100 million people have no jobs. They live off government benefit checks. What is your idea in providing those people with healthcare? Emergency room visits only? And who pays their hospital bills?
The 70's was when they phased it in. may not have hit your employer yet.
about 100 million people have no jobs. They live off government benefit checks. What is your idea in providing those people with healthcare? Emergency room visits only? And who pays their hospital bills?
Well, getting the economy off of government addiction is, as Reagan used to say, kind of like getting someone off alcohol addiction. There would be a "cold turkey" period and, as in the 80's, the economy could get worse before it gets better. There would be a phase-out-phase-in period and the key would be LOWERING THE TAX RATE to a flat tax of around 15%. Our economy would boom as it did in the 80's and these issues would be mitigated. Private industry would again be able to assimilate the needy the way it always has, but more importantly, free competition would lower prices and expand availability with a myriad of options for the consumer/patient. It's a heavenly option compared to Obama's hellish nightmare.
Nothing is perfect. The bogus "perfection" argument of the socialists is used by demagogues as an excuse for tyranny. The results of the free market are the best results for the most people in the world. The results of socialism is misery, poverty, and oppression for a great majority of people - and the middle class disappears.