One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK)

Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by adventured on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:37PM (#35991447)

If you're capable of earning $172,000 in salary in the US, you can trivially get an employer that covers essentially all the cost of your health insurance (if that's an important arrangement wherever you're at in life; ie if you want that packaged into your total compensation vs taxes calculation). That's the typical situation for someone with a salary that high in the US. Your scenario is pretending that people earning so much are commonly having to cover the cost of their health insurance, which is not the case.

Which is simultaneously in no way defending the mess that is US healthcare.

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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by EddieEngineers on Thursday May 18, 2023 @01:57PM (#35991697)

I pay $50 a month for health care but have to co-pay so specialist appointments are a few hundred.

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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK) by jjav on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:00PM (#35993992)

> If you're capable of earning $172,000 in salary in the US, you can trivially get an employer that covers essentially all the cost of your health insurance

Employers rarely cover all the health care premiums for you entire family.

Most non-startups will cover 100% for the employee, but if you're not single you'll end up paying quite a bit to cover your spouse & kids.

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