Well, they don't actually pay the full, minimum they get 50%. And upper level employees get up to 100% including family. But the key here is the suboptimal risk pool. It hurts everyone. I have said for years, as a business owner, I am basically a single issue voter for government healthcare. I hate dealing with healthcare so much I can't even begin to articulate it.
The problem with this, and several others, is you are looking at normal times elections where the vast majority of the country was fat and happy. You need to go back to the robber barons and Teddy Roosevelt's dismantling of them to really see a parallel with what is possible now. I'm not saying you are gonna make a bunch of whites not racist, but if you give them the chance to take down billionaires they will make common cause with you. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
Yes! But the discomfort is our ally right now.
We can literally do that too. In fact, we have an easier job now that we have a bunch of cartoon villains broadcasting every day how insanely shitty they are.