It really sounds like you have no idea what the difference is between employee contributions and employer contributions.
Answer me this. If you get a company car for free, do you complain that your salary was reduced?
I have been in that situation. As I didn’t need a car, I asked for and indeed got a raise instead.
Congratulations. You must live somewhere with good public transport or good cycling infrastructure or really near your workplace.
But I think it’s hopelessly naive to think that if you reduced taxes on companies pay for ordinary workers would go up, or that they would get anywhere even slightly enough to pay for the sort of healthcare available for free in countries with socialised healthcare.
Like I said, Americans spend roughly twice as much on healthcare as other wealthy countries and their health outcomes are worse than most of them. Who knew that maximising shareholder income wasn’t the best motivator for good, well priced healthcare?
available for free in countries with socialised healthcare
That’s exactly the point I’m trying to communicate.
Americans grossly underestimate the costs of the system (“5% of your paycheque”, “free”, …).
I’m not saying it’s better. I’m not saying it’s worse. I’m saying that statements like that are factually incorrect. There seems to be a naievity or worse, propagandic force in statements like that.