Human ecosystems don't feel pain, get crippled and die; people do.
So, you get some guy with a nasty bug in the kitchen of the local restaurant making your salad and trying to ride out what he thinks is a cold -- because a doc is a hundred bucks a visit. You get some parent who puts off having their kid checked out until pay day and sends the kid to school with meninigitis.
Nothing will change after taxes are raised and the cost is hidden in a fabulous hand waiving act. The law protects against this action now. it's the employer that's posing the risk. For your info, most of the contamination in sits like this is deliberate, not accidental. I really don't care why he's sick. He's sick and contaminating the food. what the hell difference does it make what the contamination is?
"You get some parent who puts off having their kid checked out until pay day and sends the kid to school with meninigitis. "
Bacterial meningitis just comes on all of a sudden. It's passed before one even develops symptoms. Do you think I should have to pay the $100 every time someone feels "under the weather"? If they eat too much candy, down too much pop, or get off their sleep schedule and get a bit of a headache, should I have to pay for the millions of kids weekly that do this to be examined for bacterial meningitis?
No. You make sure you have good credit, take the kid to the doctor, sign an agreement to pay in thirty days or put it on a credit card, and pay the $100 come payday.
Just like going out to dinner.
By the way, the guy working in the restaurant kitchen probably doesn't have sick leave, or he gets one or two days a year. If he's sick, he's not going to stay home unless he's dying, so having health insurance isn't going to keep your food any safer.