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Any commentary on stagnant wages in the United States that does not mention health care is essentially not worth reading.

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Agreed. The amount employers are paying to employ people has gone up, in constant dollars. But the increase is getting eaten by the increased cost of providing health care.

Except for all the employees that don't receive health insurance through their employers...

The bottom end has been held down by illegal immigration. You don't add eleven million people with sixth grade educations to the job market and expect wages for unskilled labor to go up.

Increased regulation of health care == increased cost of health care.

Explain?

Health care inflation has been substantially outstripping core inflation for the past several decades (though this trend has slowed, or possibly even reversed, in the past four years).

Americans now spend nearly $18 of every $100 produced in the US on health care.

For every $100 made in the United States, $1.50 is spent just on hospital administration.

Wages are being eaten up by corporate health care expenditures.

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