Top 10 Worst “Accomplishments” of the American Labor Movement

4. Employer Health Insurance

Prior to government mandated employer-paid health insurance, the local country doctor was forced to make do with whatever his patients could pay him. A basket full of eggs or home-baked pie were sometimes all he got in return for helping to deliver a baby or to set a broken bone. But when employer paid insurance became the norm thanks to the Labor Movement, suddenly doctors grew very rich. They stopped making house calls. Very sick patients were forced to get out of bed to go see the doctor at his clinic, where they spread disease to everyone in the waiting room. Health care costs skyrocketed. Those people who only had part-time work or were self-employed suddenly could not afford to pay for health care, because they did not have insurance.

As a result, many people went without healthcare at all. This led to the passage of Obamacare, which now taxes people as a punishment for not having health insurance. People who have a low income are now either forced to go on Medicaid and give the government a lien on their homes, or they have to dig into savings to pay for minimal health insurance with a high deductible and still pay out of pocket for every doctor’s visit, at a rate that far exceeds what it would have been if nobody had health insurance. So if you wonder why healthcare costs so much, you can thank the Labor Movement.