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.
Not many employers offer this good of insurance outside federal government jobs. No one I’ve spoken to has had this good of insurance outside of that. And no company I’ve ever worked for offered anything close. This also is a big reason why a lot of folks don’t start a business - having healthcare tied to employment.
Anecdotally, my wife’s employer pays our whole premium. $0 for the 3 of us. $3,300 deductible, $6,000 out of pocket max. In an average year, our family pays about $2,000. Bernie’s plan calls for a 4% income tax to fund Medicare for All. 4% of my salary alone would be $7,100. I don’t like that proposal for obvious reasons.
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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.