I have been wondering: If you have an economy, whose business model depends on letting sick people die if they aren't well off.
If you now introduce health care for all, it should trigger a lot of regulations to avoid negative health effects, now that capital pays for them.

Am I overlooking something? Shouldn't this cause a lot of changes on consumer protection levels:
Food standards, recipe effects on health, noise limits for devices, car design regarding fatalities, work circumstances protection (max hours, mandatory vacation, safety, ergonomics).

Because the other capitals surely do not want to pay for one who is taking more than giving by having a business model based on breaking employees or consumers.
I don't know, maybe I'm overlooking something. But I suspect that is a fundamental cause for the spread of standards.

This thread is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to existing economic blocks is of course coincidental.