Nationalized healthcare is taking from the kitty and putting it toward the benefit of the public domain. You have thus lapsed once again into a straw man argument, Scott SoCal.
When the government, led by the neoliberal capitalist ideology, stops bailing out the Wall Street banks and catering to the private medical insurance industries, then we can start talking about the “unreasonable” requests of State workers. Of course the most privileged class of State worker is the politician. It's ironic how you conservatives have no sense of proportion and refuse to see reality, when it goes against your interests.
I don't think, consequently, that the private sector has suffered much, the major protagonists in it especially, over the past decades since Reaganomics and under the neoliberal regime, whereas the public one has been reduced to a pathetic carcass.
What does the right want to collectively bargain for? The diktat has ever been, cut, baby, cut! Your fired! We have given all the money to our associates, go home to your family and start over again.
I'd like to see the statistics of Openpolis on the US, which has, among other objectives, "to favor government transparency and facilitate governmental controls in the collective interest." I'm sure it would produce a desolate portrait of disorganization of the management of public resources, of useless meetings, of illegitimate promotions, of unjustified hikes in salary for the privileged, of public works left incomplete with inflated payments. In short a photograph of a political class in America largely driven by private interests without competence and without even a modicum of a public ethic, moved by private business and clientelism. Other then respect for the law and democracy.