I don’t think that’s actually true in this particular case. Just about every single full time job has to offer a health insurance plan because all of their competitors are doing it. You simply can’t attract good labor without it. So the motivation of the company providing you with health insurance isn’t necessarily to keep you there, but rather to get people in the door to begin with. If the motivation was to keep you there, they’d offer a health insurance plan so amazing that you realistically couldn’t go anywhere else without taking a cut.
On a larger scale though, there are lots of reasons that people want to keep this system intact. In particular, the societal “benefit” of extracting the maximum amount of work possible out of its populace.
I don’t think that’s actually true in this particular case. Just about every single full time job has to offer a health insurance plan because all of their competitors are doing it. You simply can’t attract good labor without it. So the motivation of the company providing you with health insurance isn’t necessarily to keep you there, but rather to get people in the door to begin with. If the motivation was to keep you there, they’d offer a health insurance plan so amazing that you realistically couldn’t go anywhere else without taking a cut.
On a larger scale though, there are lots of reasons that people want to keep this system intact. In particular, the societal “benefit” of extracting the maximum amount of work possible out of its populace.