[ssambros]

No one here says that if you have private health insurance then you should not have government regulations ensuring workplace safety.

[hexane360]

The argument here was about incentives -- i.e. the practical component of how our laws get updated, not about the theoretical component. Your original argument was that private companies are incentivized to pursue safety, and my counterargument is that incentivized private companies do not nearly as much power to effectively pursue safety as incentivized governments do.