and they can't get up!

I know this is of no concern to societal parasites like the lap monkeys who get paid for this tripe, but the most significant social cost of employer based health care is that it diverts wage gains from my pocket and those of my fellow employees into the pockets of shitbag insurance companies and fat, overcompensated doctors and hospitals who think that their medical degrees is an entitlement to be not just permanently comfortable, but pig rich.

At least six hundred bucks a month is what my employer pays to the fuckers at Blue Cross instead of me, for a policy in which my $500 deductible is somehow never met. I've contributed, directly or through my employer, probably a few hundred thousand dollars to the health insurance industry (that pays the salaries of a lot of administrators working tirelessly to deny benefits) and due to my (knock on wood/skull) ongoing good health, I haven't cost them dime one in almost twenty years.

That's my retirement fund, right there in the pockets of a bunch of rent seeking gougers who only exist and only make all that money because they've gotten control of the political process.

Oh, but forget all that. It's the empoyers that need help. Look Noah, if they employers are relieved of their current obligations to provide health care, why do the companies recapture that money? Most will have to go to pay for universal health care, and the rest ought to go to the workers because it's a benefit that they have earned and which is already calculated into the cost of labor. So according to you, the $6,500 a year in benefits I earn through my productive work now goes back to my employer and not me?

You fucktoad.

Unfortunately, chances are that's exactly what's going to happen. My earned benefits, now taken over by the gov't, will go back into the pockets of the fucking shareholders just like every other dimes' worth of productivity gains made BY WORKERS in the last three decades.