Employer provided healthcare bad for competition?

[Dill]

(09-29-2017, 07:52 PM)SunsetBengal Wrote: Did you read the OP?  Benton states that his friend, the small business owner, said that the cost wasn't the issue as much as the paperwork.  He then went on to say that his employees are low paid, and that most are there specifically for the healthcare coverage.

Yes, and Benton raised the question of universal coverage. And the guy expressed fear he would lose employees because of the low salary.

I was just wondering if perhaps the Universal coverage might save him money he now pays offering insurance and doing all that paperwork. He could translate that gain into higher, more competitive wages.  The question would be whether he had to raise wages so high, in the new labor market, that it cost him more to run the business than previously.