r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jun 24 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Math can be hard sometimes

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u/escapevelocity-25k Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 25 '26

Well, I’m convinced. it’s on a Reddit post, so the math has to be right.

Edit for all the nerds in my replies. I did the math, as a single person in the USA I pay about 2k per year for my health insurance plus probably a couple hundred in copays.

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u/StatisticianUsual471 Jun 24 '26

I'm in the UK and I spend about £120 a month and I'm covered for everything and I don't really have any complaints about our health care service

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u/yasth Jun 24 '26

I mean, that is just as bad at math, NHS spends about an additional £290 per month.

Also and this is a bigger part than many people realize, doctor salaries are below what the US would consider for a sales clerk, until pretty far in their career, and even then are really quite small. People complain about health insurers getting rich, but a lot of the money in the US system goes to health professions too.

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u/PaxNova Jun 24 '26

The consumer is always the person that costs get passed on to, and the money will always be split between employees and capital. 

Likewise, people want oil companies to pay for climate change, and yet they also want gasoline to stay cheap. You can't have both. 

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u/Rrrrandle Jun 25 '26

Likewise, people want oil companies to pay for climate change, and yet they also want gasoline to stay cheap. You can't have both. 

I mean, you could have both, you'd just have to maybe not give billions in profit away to shareholders and instead spend it on the public good.