You know what the logic behind inflation is? To create a situation where people want to invest their money rather than have it sit in a box, because moving money is alive and the faster it moves the better the economy. I see nationalized healthcare the same way. You take some of that money sitting around in the rich's bank accounts, and you invest it in the working poor. Providing healthcare for the working poor should in the long-term increase productivity at the cost of money that wasn't doing anything in the first place. And if a company was willing to cut their employees hours to cut costs, they probably did it already. Most of the time companies like that only hire on the bare minimum they need, sometimes even less than they actually required to get the job done, and then try to squeeze more hours out of those that they have. So there probably aren't many hours for them to cut in the first place.