If companies have to provide healthcare coverage for their fulltime employees, but not their gig workers and contractors, which type of employment do you think they are going to prioritise?
If healthcare costs were applied uniformly through tax (as is done in most countries with universal healthcare) then there would be less reason for employers to prefer one type of employment contract over another for low level jobs.
Your eagerness to shit on America made you entirely miss the point. Believe it or not, it is extremely obvious to many that universal healthcare would be a cheaper and preferential option.
It's possible German stocks are well priced, in a regulated, slow and rational market that cares about fitting the price with the value of the company, and would hold most of their current market cap much more than Apple, were it liquidated.
LOL, well regulated and rational my ass. The Deutsche Bank and Wirecard scandals (puls numerous more) proved the German government is just as corrupt when it comes to manipulating the market and threatening honest journalists, so that some rich and well connected scumbags can get even more obscenely rich. I've worked in several western countries but never saw more high-level corporate corruption than in Germany.
Oh yes, the regulation (BaFin?) totally was out of order on that one!
But yeah, I guess low-level employees should do without healthcare, they just shouldn’t be poor AND sick after all :)