Excellent! Logic would then dictate that it would be advantageous (to employers, employees, and the state as a whole) to mandate that all employers provide child-care, food, clothing, transportation and housing for all employees. Again, because employers would get a more stable workforce where what might be day to day concerns of dealing with these items on an individual basis are eliminated. It is a very comprehensive win/win for both side.
It would be ridiculous to stop at healthcare since it represents such a small portion of the financial burden's placed on the American worker, especially when all of these things could be rationed by the employers and regulated by the state!
That is just the way the system has evolved to date. Logic does dictate more and more of those things to the forward looking, highly successful companies we "pine away" over here in Oklahoma. Google is the latest/greatest of perks in the country right now. Well, except for the facility in Pryor.... But some of their other facilities have amazing things going on.
You mention food...32,000 employees - free food. Of course, they simply can't be competitive with that kind of stuff going on....according to Okie logic.
http://www.gourmet.com/food/gourmetlive/2012/030712/inside-googles-kitchensIt's called "law of supply and demand" - isn't that one of the cornerstones of capitalism...??
Uh, oh....google is also putting in that other bug-a-boo of Oklahoma's ignorance - renewable energy! Wind power! I just wonder when the peasants will show up at the gates with pitchforks, torches, and scythes....
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2013/09/23/google-buys-former-gatorade-plant-near-oklahoma-data-center/Actually, your little piece of nirvana was one of the ways things were done in the past. There have even been songs written about the company towns.... And Hershey!! Yum - chocolate!!