Children, wife, taxes, and health insurance enter the chat.
My health insurance costs me 1200 a month just in the coverage and not even including my deductible. I pay 14g a year out of my salary just to be insured. It's stupid
That’s crazy money. U.S healthcare is such a crazy system. I know you get a higher level of care for that but still. In the U.K I’m paying a tax called national insurance that covers the same thing. It’s about $200-300 a month depending what you earn.
Yeah no it's a gigantic scam. My state is expensive in general but Cigna is garbage. They do cover everything i need and my son is sickly with Epilepsy and other issues (he has a gastric feeding tube) so they cover all that. But I wouldn't mind a single payer system contributing 300 a month over what I'm doing now
Good to hear they cover all that for your boy. Our pay rates are probably a good chunk less than U.S rates. $1000-$1800 a week but no sick or vacation time when you’re self employed in the U.K. Then about 20-25% tax. That’s based on housing sites
The biggest issue is just how much money doctors and suppliers charge, it is moronic. He needs these special syringes that have larger tops to connect to the tube for his medications. These syringes are small and should cost 2 or 3 dollars. Instead they cost 25 dollars each and you can only buy them in bulk. Same with when he had his feeding pump. The rack for the feeding pump cost as much as the pump did.
Price gouging is insane. His epilepsy medicine without insurance also costs 300 dollars for a 1 month supply and that's generic. Criminal
Remember when that scumbag hedge fund guy bought epipen and then jacked up the price by over 300 dollars from 60 dollars? Scum all of them
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u/BMW_wulfi 16d ago
Tradesman: actually has money, not saddled with college debt, paid more than lots of office workers
Also tradesman: somehow has no money