Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK)
by fshbbdssbbgdd on Thursday May 18, 2023 @05:01PM
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High-income wage earners on the US typically get health insurance from their job, which is a tax-exempt benefit that isn’t included in income statistics. After retirement age, Medicare will pay for most medical expenses, although it’s still smart to save some extra money for whatever Medicare doesn’t cover. Amortized over a career, reasonable savings for post-retirement health care might amount to 1% or so for someone in that income range.
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Re:One million cancel broadband as living costs rise (UK)
by ztrww on Friday May 19, 2023 @03:26AM
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> High-income wage earners on the US typically get health insurance from their job
This increase the total cost of labor which effectively is the same. Of course on the higher end paying a lump sum is way more optimal than an extra 10% tax to fund healthcare. If your income is low.. we’ll it’s a highly regressive system without government support. And with government subsidies it becomes effectively the same just extra hoops.