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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by umanwizard on Monday January 16, 2017 @01:31PM (#13411860)
That might be an outlier relative to the whole population, but is it one relative to good tech jobs?

I pay $0 for health insurance, for example, and what I get is perfectly good.

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by esw on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:31PM (#13412753)
The context seems to have been lost in the shuffle. Here's what I was responding to:

>I have a brother that works in a pretty normal job earning $42,000 per year (not an outsized salary in the US), he pays $27 per month for his health insurance through his employer, and it's a nice plan. That isn't unusual in the US

My point is that most people in 'pretty normal jobs' pay considerably more for healthcare.

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Re:A Visa for founders, engineers and investors willing to j... by hayd on Monday January 16, 2017 @03:42PM (#13412834)
Plans differ wildly in copay/oom etc. So $0 isn't what you end up paying if you actually need to use your health plan.
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