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This is a very well written comment, so thank you :) What I'm saying is obviously speculation, but it's based on the following: - large fortune 500 companies

This is a very well written comment, so thank you :) What I'm saying is obviously speculation, but it's based on the following: - large fortune 500 companies are the ones with actual political power. The vast majority of businesses are far less likely to be able to lobby for significant policy change. - that said, if this was an actual issue wrt to budgeting and such, I'm sure the bean counters would have already lobbied internally for external lobby for universal healthcare, if that makes sense. The silence from the big players on this subject tells me they're more than willing to pay for their employee healthcare, otherwise they'd already have eliminated this cost center. So, they do have an incentive to maintain the status quo. - their ability to recruit kinda stopped after ACA. Before that, major players had 100% free healthcare, which was an actual recruitment advantage. Nowadays, it's pretty uniform so it does not matter. HOWEVER, I personally have some anecdata about folks who stay in big tech because they have kids with special needs, care which would be super expensive if they wanted to move to some small startup or even a government job.

no_wizard 2y ago
>that said, if this was an actual issue wrt to budgeting and such, I'm sure the bean counters would have already lobbied internally for external lobby for universal healthcare, if that makes sense. The silence from the big players on this subject tells me they're more than willing to pay for their employee healthcare, otherwise they'd already have eliminated this cost center. So, they do have an incentive to maintain the status quo. On this specifically, what I have read on the subject suggests that most businesses simply aren't evaluating this to begin with, even big ones, but the ones that have, such as the big 3 Automakers, are actually for universal health care (since it significantly reduces their costs for employee benefits, especially for retired workers) and other big businesses with manufacturing interests. Many large employers like state governments would really benefit from federally implemented universal healthcare as well and they do lobby for this. I simply think that the insurance and adjacent industries have such targeted lobbying on this that other lobbying is more easily ignored, since GM for instance, isn't spending millions to specifically lobby for universal healthcare, while insurance companies and adjacent industries that benefit from the status quo directly lobby consistently spending millions against it, quite specifically

no_wizard 2y ago

>that said, if this was an actual issue wrt to budgeting and such, I'm sure the bean counters would have already lobbied internally for external lobby for universal healthcare, if that makes sense. The silence from the big players on this subject tells me they're more than willing to pay for their employee healthcare, otherwise they'd already have eliminated this cost center. So, they do have an incentive to maintain the status quo. On this specifically, what I have read on the subject suggests that most businesses simply aren't evaluating this to begin with, even big ones, but the ones that have, such as the big 3 Automakers, are actually for universal health care (since it significantly reduces their costs for employee benefits, especially for retired workers) and other big businesses with manufacturing interests. Many large employers like state governments would really benefit from federally implemented universal healthcare as well and they do lobby for this. I simply think that the insurance and adjacent industries have such targeted lobbying on this that other lobbying is more easily ignored, since GM for instance, isn't spending millions to specifically lobby for universal healthcare, while insurance companies and adjacent industries that benefit from the status quo directly lobby consistently spending millions against it, quite specifically