this thread is constrained to the healthcare industry

Your points have merit -- but aren't the basis for this thread's discussion. Capitalism will ultimately solve the problem you describe. Mandates are happening in places and companies. People are leaving those states and the companies enforcing them are losing people. At some point those companies will either die or refuse to follow the mandates. At some point those states will die or the people within them will elect different people that change the policies.

We are already seeing it with green energy mandates. Boom. Within 8 months fuel prices are skyrocketing and driving inflation across all industries and products. Biden is now scrambling to try and convince our mortal enemies to produce more oil -- which they refused to do. Biden is now asking the US companies to produce more natural gas -- which he personally spent the first 8 months trying to block. Market realities are forcing him to change to some extent -- far faster than most expected.