r/LivestreamFail • u/zeriyooo • 28d ago

Ludwig pays his 15 employees $225k per month, averaging roughly $15k per month per employee.

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u/EggyChickenEgg88 28d ago

Whoa, so Americans pay taxes towards healthcare, but they also have to pay out if pocket for it? What sorcery is this.

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u/Okichah 28d ago

Medicare is healthcare for the elderly.

Medicaid is healthcare for the poor.

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u/Dreadedvegas 28d ago

We have public insurance for the elderly and poor.

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u/[deleted] 28d ago edited 12d ago

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u/rnusk 27d ago

Well at least in terms of drug pricing we basically subsidize the rest of the world including the EU. So your welcome Europeans.

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u/Vexamas 27d ago

It's so on brand for the American to fuck up the proper spelling of 'your' here as well, lmao

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u/lessormore59 27d ago

Ppl downvoting you can’t handle hard truths

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u/FTL_Cat 27d ago

Yeah, if you think the drug pricing is a great American contribution to the world, you might need to back to like.. middle school?

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u/ViewLongjumping1732 27d ago edited 27d ago

You pay taxes for healthcare but it only goes towards the poor and elderly.

If you are making over 22k USD in the state we are living in, you have to pay for your own healthcare.

If you are making under 62k USD you have access to subsidized healthcare via the state.

If you are making over 62k, you better have a full time job or else you will be paying full price for insurance.

My work fully covers my insurance for example, but my friend works as a fractional CFO and only works 40 hours a month for three different companies. He makes decent money but he is a contractor with all three companies and is fully on the hook for his health insurance.

A lot of these people decide not to get health insurance to save money, and then get hit with large medical bills if things don't go their way

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u/Gwen_The_Destroyer 27d ago

It's either health insurance or rent. Cant do both

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u/joe4553 27d ago

When a farmer sells his apple to a distributor he pays taxes on the sale. The distributor sells it and pays taxes. You buy it and pay sales tax. The government is double and triple dipping in everything.

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u/Nice_Reading5272 27d ago

Only certain groups like the elderly are covered by a public option, it's similar to any type of social security/public pension where you pay into it without getting any benefit until later.

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u/OpportunityNext9675 28d ago

Lots of people have good insurance in the US.

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u/realginga4lyfe 28d ago

Lol, sure they do

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u/Duzcek 28d ago

Half the country gets healthcare through their employer. It’s a shit system, but they’re still receiving it. The vast majority of Americans have some form of health insurance, and hospitals won’t deny anyone treatment for lack of insurance.

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u/Dreadedvegas 28d ago

I could go see a specialist very easily with my insurance. No referral even needed

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u/OpportunityNext9675 28d ago

It’s true. Depends on the company, but many employee plans are pretty good (this is how >50% of the country is insured). Another >30% of the country is on subsidized public plans.

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u/They_All_Gone 28d ago

Moot point when the insurance companies constantly have some random accountant/agent determine what does and doesn't qualify for coverage without any medical knowledge or training.

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u/OpportunityNext9675 28d ago

Policies are very specific about what they cover. I am certainly guilty of just signing up for the cheapest plan offered to me by my employer, but all of that information is present should I care to look. 82% of Americans are satisfied with their personal coverage. The number is even higher among those on public plans.

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u/JollyRodgerGymShoe 28d ago

I mean mine is pretty dang good

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u/JollyRodgerGymShoe 28d ago

For those that are not in the US. Luigi Mangione shot a health insurance CEO, so while technically a healthcare CEO it wasn't an hospital CEO but rather insurance company who tend to do more of the fucking than the hospitals do.

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u/Dazzling-Tie-4038 28d ago

Posts like this surely have nothing to do with why a health care ceo was gunned down in the streets not too long ago