SO this is just what the employer pays. The employee then pays premiums monthly as well for access. Employers pay somewhere between $5k and $25k (or more) per employee a year for health care depending on quality and portion of premiums they pay for the employee. Usually its split, so someone makes $80k a year, they pay $10k a year in premiums, employer pays $10k a year in premiums.

The problem is that in the US it's a fixed amount vs in Germany a proportion of your income. This works OK for higher incomes but for lower incomes it's a big problem. And as always, the people in the middle get screwed. Not enough money to afford the premiums easily but too much money to get subsidies.

> Asking as not an American - $10k per year, how much % of a yearly salary is it?

Depends on if you make 35k or 200k/year