Practical startup question: Do you founders pay for health insurance out of pocket while working full-time on your projects?

Re:Practical startup question: Do you founders pay for healt... by mdakin on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @01:18AM (#8720)

I do. And so will all other founders who are Massachusetts residents as of July 1, 2007. (A new law requires all residents of the commonwealth to have health insurance by that date in order to avoid fines.)

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Re:Practical startup question: Do you founders pay for healt... by immad on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @07:15AM (#8751)

lol, as someone who gets free healthcare in the UK thats really amusing. Why not just make it a tax for the minimum requirement? (you could even make it dependent on income although possibly thats too shocking)

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Re:Practical startup question: Do you founders pay for healt... by mdakin on Wednesday April 04, 2007 @11:37AM (#8811)

It is very politically difficult to raise taxes or introduce new taxes anywhere in the USA, even Massachusetts. Also many people in the USA are skeptical about socialized health care. The USA's system is definitely broken in some ways but it is not clear at all that the systems of other counties are not also broken in different ways.

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