That's so the State doesn't have to pay for health insurance and other benefits.
Of course, most libs don't even know when they are being bitten in the @ss by their own advocacy. Proving George Orwell's point:
"So much of left-wing thought is a kind of playing with fire by people who don't even know that fire is hot."
(And Orwell was a liberal and a socialist but he had the sense to see through much of libs lack of foresight)
“(And Orwell was a liberal and a socialist but he had the sense to see through much of libs lack of foresight) “
I find it ironic that some of the best books depicting the inevitable outcome of socialism/fascism/communism came from a self-proclaimed socialist.