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Health care socialism is transforming America’s workforce — for the worse

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America has a socialism problem, and it’s bigger than most citizens realize.

When candidates aligned with the Democratic Socialists of America win Democratic Party primaries, or New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani hails “the warmth of collectivism,” socialism’s advance is obvious.

But it’s making gains in other ways, too, especially in the transformation of America’s workforce — which is coming to be chiefly employed in a sector one step removed from outright government control: health care.

In 1990, manufacturing was the top employment sector in most states, including New York and California.

Today, health care is the nation’s biggest employer, No. 1 in almost every individual state — New York, California, Texas, even Pennsylvania.

When Mary Talley Bowden, the founder of Americans for Health Freedom, posted a chart on X last weekend illustrating this revolution in American labor, it went viral, garnering more than 2.5 million views and eliciting hundreds of follow-up comments.

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Yet America hasn’t changed from a nation of makers into a nation of caregivers.

Health-care employment is growing mainly because we’re adding far more administrators.

True, there are rising numbers of in-home caregivers and other medical personnel........

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