Benefits should be framed like taxes

If you have health care benefits and are making $50,000 a year (pre-taxes), your employer is really paying you in the neighborhood of $62-70,000 due to their contributions to your benefits. That's money you don't get to see. Basically, it functions likes a tax. Except that 'tax' goes to things other than health care - like CEO salaries, executive bonuses, advertising, and other business expenses.

But since we think we are making $50,000, we never think of this as being our money. If employers were forced to give you the, say, $65,000 salary figure and show you the amount you are giving to your health care company in every paycheck, how happy do you think the brainwashed picketers would be with their health care? How much BS would people be willing to put up with from their insurance company if they saw $1,000 a month deducted from their paycheck?

Yet if we reformed the whole sysyem, took employers out of the equation, and taxes went up $100 a month, watch the torches come out.

They think their taxes will go up and they will still be paying for private health insurance also.
They cannot seem to connect the dots. Single payer is money in their pocket.