Due to the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), more minimum wage jobs provide healthcare coverage than did so 30 years ago. Most employers are now required to offer that to all full-time employees regardless of wage level. There are still gaps and affordability problems but overall coverage is now more available to such workers.
Luckily for the employers they can just schedule you for 30 minutes less than full time!
I went years post Obama care passing where I would be working 75 hours a week but with no healthcare because each job would cut me off at 38.5 hours on the dot. Managers would walk out and escort you to the time clock if you were coming up on full time hours
