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A comment on Ask HN: What percentage of your salary are you paying to health insurance?.

Re:Ask HN: What percentage of your salary are you paying to ... by stannol on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @11:28AM (#12436689)
Like most people in Germany I pay 7.3% + 0.2% supplemental. I decided against private insurance due to the recent massive premium hikes, even though right now it would be cheaper for me. (It's hard to get out of private insurance and back into statutory insurance)
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Re:Ask HN: What percentage of your salary are you paying to ... by mtmail on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:03PM (#12439606)
The rate is probably 15% with the employer paying the other half. The big German public health insurance companies compete with each other but have to offer a base catalogue of services so they're quite similar after all and the rate difference is 0.1, maybe 0.5% between them. It is capped at 6200 Euro gross, so the maximum amount you'd pay is 453 Euro/month (assuming 7.3% rate).
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