the jury is out on this, but i don't think those scandals are even in the same universe as violating the rights granted under HIPAA and ACA, across the entire labor force.
I would call slave labor significantly worse than employers discriminating based on medical histories, but I will concede that since discrimination happens to you ("you" in the general sense - not you personally), while slave labor happens to someone else on the other side of the world, I would expect more people to protest against it.
american workers do not care about slave labor in china, especially given all the otherization we do of chinese people here. conservatives generally view them either as evil robot-like commies or dog-eating barbarians. take your pick.
just make sure iphones are cheap enough for american consumers to buy. that's all we care about.
If the government were set on removing workers' rights, though, then I would have serious doubts if such a protest would achieve anything.
i think you drastically underestimate human beings and what happens when tens or hundreds or millions of them can't put food on the table. if you think the federal government has any interest in that situation, you are mistaken. you give the government way too much power. they are terrified of popular revolt, and the unprecedented expansion of unemployment benefits is just the first example of the lengths they'll go to prevent unrest among the middle and working classes.
in that context, do you really see employers (or their insurers) getting away with discriminating against huge swathes of the labor force based on past medical history?
Not at the moment, no, but if you asked me six months ago I would also have said it was unthinkable that
people would be arrested and detained without trial just for leaving their homes. All bets are off in the current climate.
that writing was on the wall a long time ago, and this isn't the first time it's been threatened or done by any means. suspension of habeas corpus is explicitly allowed in the constitution during a state of emergency. those powers have quietly been expanded for the last few decades, and maybe even centuries.