Decoupling “benefits” like healthcare and retirement from employment is the real issue. Should be a government responsibility, given out equally, paid for by taxes.
We already have social security and medicare. The problem is that we refuse to expand these excellent social programs, opt to hobble them, and then point out how bad they are after we've bled them out. The American way.
88% of democratic voters (and 68% of independents) support Medicare for All, yet inexplicably DNC leadership voted against including in the 2020 party platform.