When ACA was passed (Obamacare), it expanded healthcare benefits to millions of part-time workers based on a new definition of "full time" that meant >=30 hours.
The result was simply that many employees had their weekly hours cut to less than 30 hours.
The argument on who pays for health care is the wrong question.
When paying cash for an MRI is $500, and via Health Insurance it is $5,000. There are bigger issues.
I used to get a weekly shot. Paid my $60 dollar co-pay. They billed insurance another $120 or so.
Eventually I asked what the cash price is. $17 dollars. Was a real WTF?! moment.
Companies started offering insurance because tax rates above a certain amount where in the 90+ percent range.
To pay people more, companies had to get highly creative.
Lots of "perks". Company cars, hotels, etc. Insurance was one such method.
Our entire Health Insurance Industry came from companies and people avoiding absurd taxes.
Now things are absurd in other ways.
What are the numbers on that? Could one equally say that “the result was simply that many employees received healthcare benefits that they previously did not”?
I don't know of any job where people didn't routinely get healthcare where they do now.
What I do know is that these days you'd be very hard pressed to find a job that pays less than "what a skilled tradesman makes at their first job that's better than entry level" that doesn't also cap you at 30hr whereas that wasn't the case before. So now everyone who had a poorly paid job before now has two of them.
Accountants, administrative assistants, maintenance people, custodians, delivery drivers, CNAs, etc, etc, have had their hours cut to avoid paying benefits.
I too would be interested in numbers. If there is any improvement it seems to be confined to some industry I am completely unaware of.
The result was simply that many employees had their weekly hours cut to less than 30 hours.