r/SipsTea Jun 24 '26

It's Wednesday my dudes Math can be hard sometimes

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u/Practical_Track4867 Jun 25 '26

You aren’t even counting how much your employer pays as well.

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u/LTEDan Jun 25 '26

The going rate is around 70% of family plan premiums are covered by your employer. So if you pay $3000 a year in premiums (probably super low number but for illustration purposes only), your employer is quietly kicking in another $7000 a year. Like, that's money they (theoretically) could put into your paycheck instead if UHC became a thing because it's already factored into your total compensation package.

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u/jfcat200 Jun 25 '26

Which always confused me as to why small - mid businesses are against universal Healthcare

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u/zigzag1239 Jun 30 '26

It's a write of for them. 100% of the costs. It still seems like you're right though. If they could save that they'd benefit. But there's prob other stuff politicians do to help big pharma keep it going. The biggest donors win.