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> Additionally, chip makers must provide fully paid for childcare and healthcare for everyone involved including construction workers. Obviously, this skyrockets the price of everything from the moment they break ground.

Do construction workers not normally get healthcare coverage?

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It's not just healthcare though.

> paid for childcare

Plus it may be that the healthcare requirements are beyond what the market would typically provide.

Almost all employers offer some kind of healthcare benefit, but many of those are completely useless plans.

Childcare is ridiculously expensive to provide too especially when you consider the infrastructure isn't there either and would need to be built.

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