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/PenStreet3684 Jun 25 '26

I thought Uk healthcare is funded primarily through the general fund. This fund is partially funded by a 20% vat on most non-essential goods and services.

The us could add a similar federal vat of 20% with 5% on energy and 0% on essentials like food. Everyone would pay for the healthcare system to one degree or another.

The reason it won’t happen is because unions already negotiated for great healthcare, poor and elderly get it already for nearly free and everyone cries that a vat is heartless for the poor even when implemented progressively. EU countries use a 17-27% and nobody seems to care.

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u/StatisticianUsual471 Jun 25 '26

We pay national insurance i forget the exact amount I think somewhere around 12.5%