It's very weird to want strong benefits from your employer and not simply as a separate thing. Maybe that's not what he meant but the way it's listed is vague.
Systems like that are very hard to change for some reason, so it can be impossible for one politician to rewrite the whole system. It's a lot easier to modify the system slightly so people can get closer to the bare minimum when total reform is off the table.
Fuck Obamacare! I get my health insurance through the ACA for free cause I lost my job in the coal mine when a big rock crushed my leg! These taxes going to welfare queens are ruining the country! Trump!