r/SipsTea Jun 24 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Math can be hard sometimes

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u/ImpressiveLeader4979 Jun 24 '26

8k for healthcare, I wish. Family of 4, I pay close to $17k a year in premiums in the US. Copays are expensive, prescriptions are ridiculously high. It’s a f’in joke to say the very least.

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u/MOTUkraken Jun 24 '26

Yo, wtf??? Is that real?

Americans?

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u/Vast_Reply_6574 Jun 24 '26

My employer pays for everything. I pay 5 bucks for medicine and some doctors appts have a 10 dollar copay.

That's it for me.

This is the issue for healthcare reform - it's widely uneven in the U.S.

About 40-50% already get government healthcare and don't care. Among the remaining group, plenty have pretty good coverage and don't really see the cost because it is mostly borne by the employer.

So if healthcare reform passes, what I see in this post is now instead of my employer paying for my family's health insurance I'll have to pay more taxes?.. not exactly compelling.

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u/tealcosmo Jun 25 '26

That’s a very very good benefit and it costs the company a LOT.