Depends on if you're looking at one sector of the job market, or the market as a whole. The health care packages offered to the average engineer are, I'd wager, probably better than what are offered to the average cashier.
You're probably right. But have you ever asked yourself why that is?
Could it be that qualified engineers are far less numerous than qualified cashiers, that their education is more expensive, and that a good engineer generates more revenue for a company than a good cashier?
You can't look at the market "as a whole", see that engineers are offered better health care plans than cashiers, and then decide that the average cashier benefit package is "sub-par". You have to look at market segments and compare plans within a profession or vocation. Of course the cashier's health benefits are not as good as the engineer's, but that's because the engineer's services are more valuable in pure monetary terms, and because the company needs to attract engineers from a much smaller pool of candidates. Guess what? The engineer draws a much higher salary, too, for the same reasons.
(Actually, as someone else has pointed out, health benefits are part of a salary package--in other words, income. Do you want to argue next that cashier wages are sub-par compared to engineer wages, and that we need a national program to fix
that inequity?)
Fairness is not equality of outcome--it's equality of
opportunity.
My kids have the choice to become engineers or cashiers, for example. If they choose the cashier path, they'll have spent a lot less time and effort on their education than some kid who chooses to be an engineer, and they cannot expect to get a job with the same kind of paycheck or health plan as an engineer.
Of course, they can always stomp their feet, bitch about how the CEO of Market Basket gets a hundred times more money every paycheck than his cashiers, and whine about fairness and social justice and "the rich getting richer", in which case they'll be prime targets for vote-buying class warfare instigators like John Edwards.