Not exactly. In theory corporations need workers so they should benefit from a healthy public.

In reality, their needs for workers are met. They’ve been exporting and automating jobs for decades. So even with the system leaving lots of folks behind, enough are left over to occupy the jobs that are needed. If anything, we have more healthy people than corporations need - what is lacking are skills.

And so in a very American sense of “business first,” the current system is operating just fine. People and their health have no intrinsic value here.