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And they will do everything they can to deny treatment as well.
- in the US.
Can we relax the headline rules to allow people to drop [in America] in after headlines that only affect America?
Yeah I think everybody understood that from the 27,000 number too
Good thing we don't pay some 6-8% in taxes for universal single payer healthcare like some socialist country! Take that communists! I feel so American to pay 25% of my paycheck to a private company. God bless capitalism!
If two people make 100k a year.... you have taxes so basically half is gone. You then are spending around 24k on rent because you definitely don't own a house or pay morgatage... you need health insurance because you have kids... 25k...
Where is the rest for food gas everything else...
And then you realize that this is what a lot of Americans are dealing with...
Federal taxes would only be about 20% for a 100k income, filing jointly. That's assuming you take the standard deduction.
Edit: it would actually be less than 20% because of how tax brackets work, but I don't want to do that math.
Marginal bracket is 12% up to $96950 for a couple, so how are they paying 50% in taxes? With standard deduction and kids, it would end up being about 7.4% federal without including deductions from healthcare or 401k. Another 7.65% for OASDI and Medicare plus state and local ~4% where I am) and max tax would be 19% +/- 4% depending on locale).
Keep in mind - this is just the premium. Getting actual care requires thousands of dollars more.
Hooray for the GDP!
That’s crazy but also did everyone read the article? If I understand correctly most people are only paying about $7000 total which is still stupid but not as click bait
Doesn't matter if you pay the full $27k or if you pay $5 and the employer pays $26,995, either way it's $27k in your benefit package. Just because it doesn't pass through your pocket first doesn't mean it's not your money that you earned.
I concede that you would not get a $27k raise if your employer didn't have to cover insurance. However, there would be a whole lot of extra money allocated to compensation packages. Well, really the same amount of money, but vastly reduced costs.
So many people fail to remember this simple fact. Your benefits are just as much as part of your compensation as a salary is. People act like its a gift you are given by your employer but we all know how naive that would be.
I know for a fact that that money would go straight to the C suite so idgaf if my employer pays $27k or $50k. In fact if it was more expensive and the big dogs take pay cuts maybe more people will get mad about it since only billionaires get to have any influence over anything anyway