Reply #12: If employers no longer are responsible for health insurance benefits, wages can increase. [View All]

[seafan]

If wages are increased, employees tend to be retained longer. Less turnover means less hiring and training expenses for employers.

The government providing universal single payer health care would have a direct effect on improving wages of employees in that it frees up employers from having to provide health insurance benefits (that are nontransferable to the next job anyway...).


Just so there is no confusion, I am referring to universal single payer health care and NOT 'health insurance'.


Taking the profit motive out of health care has all kinds of nice effects for regular people.