I've read that about 11 million Canadians are covered by these employer-paid benefits plans. The glaring lack of prescription drug coverage in our "universal" health care system is the primary gap that's being filled by the current system and the gap is politically sustainable in large measure as a result of the employer-paid plans. One has to assume the Canadian health care system was designed this way to appease private corporations, and particularly the insurance industry. A class-based analysis would surely conclude that it's mainly middle-class workers who benefit from the current system, but this is the same group of taxpayers that's been asked over the past three decades to furnish an increasing portion of government revenues while getting few direct benefits in return. It would certainly be interesting to see Trudeau's government start a class war against the same middle-class  voters it purports to champion.