Giving something to everyone is always a noble idea, until the bill comes due as in the quickly going backwards Universal Health Coverage plan in Massachusetts.
The money quote (pun intended):
“While it’s tempting to
vilify “Big Employer” as stingy and selfish, the truth is that there’s
only so much you can ask businesses to do without harming citizens…research shows that there’s a big tradeoff between health care costs
and workers wages: when employers have to pay a lot for health care,
they take the cost out of employees’ paychecks.”
