Workers are not a liquid, they will not easily flow to where they are needed. There are many reasons for people to not want to move: losing touch with family and/or friends, dealing with finding new schools (if you have kids), the logistics and cost of moving all of your things, selling your home, finding a new home, is the cost of living difference favorable, the logistics of finding new doctor(s), the list goes on and in the end, you might be let go before the moving truck even arrives. This is why we should have national health care, it will ease some of the friction in workers' ability to move freely. But then again, companies want workers to be dependent on that job they currently have.
You are 100% correct! In fact, i will extend that to state that the U.S. should have a better social safety net which would include health care but other resources as well. I know in some circles social safety net is a bad word, but I imagine many workers would more readily move around if they had something to fall back on.
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