It's funny but up here in Canada employees cost companies a lot less overhead to employ than in the states. Not the bear minimum overhead, mind you, the states is by far the cheapest place to be able to call someone "your employee" without offering any benefits but if you're actually paying for healthcare, life insurance and the like Canadian per employee costs come in quite a bit under those in the US.

It's almost like skimping on common human decency social services isn't actually saving anyone any money and just serves to perpetuate a gigantic industry of health insurers and pharmaceutical companies.

The US government is also spending massive amounts of healthcare without actually delivering healthcare to way too many people. The whole system is bonkers.

I think you meant graft and corruption :D