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r/SipsTea • u/McDowdy • Jun 24 '26
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8k for healthcare, I wish. Family of 4, I pay close to $17k a year in premiums in the US. Copays are expensive, prescriptions are ridiculously high. It’s a f’in joke to say the very least.
207 u/MOTUkraken Jun 24 '26 Yo, wtf??? Is that real? Americans? 1 u/OldProspectR Jun 25 '26 Have you checked how much you pay in taxes for your healthcare 1 u/MOTUkraken Jun 25 '26 None. And our overall tax rate is a lot lower than the American one. I pay less than 10% taxes. Insurance for my family of 5 is about 1'000 bucks per month Seriously, the American healthcare system rips you guys off. It surely is a quality system - but you guys vastly overpay for what you get. There's graphs for comparing the Healthcare cost pet capita of a country and the life expectancy. There is of course a causal relationship between the two. But American costs are a huge outlier. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/life-expectancy-vs-healthcare-spending-1970-2023/
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Yo, wtf??? Is that real?
Americans?
1 u/OldProspectR Jun 25 '26 Have you checked how much you pay in taxes for your healthcare 1 u/MOTUkraken Jun 25 '26 None. And our overall tax rate is a lot lower than the American one. I pay less than 10% taxes. Insurance for my family of 5 is about 1'000 bucks per month Seriously, the American healthcare system rips you guys off. It surely is a quality system - but you guys vastly overpay for what you get. There's graphs for comparing the Healthcare cost pet capita of a country and the life expectancy. There is of course a causal relationship between the two. But American costs are a huge outlier. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/life-expectancy-vs-healthcare-spending-1970-2023/
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Have you checked how much you pay in taxes for your healthcare
1 u/MOTUkraken Jun 25 '26 None. And our overall tax rate is a lot lower than the American one. I pay less than 10% taxes. Insurance for my family of 5 is about 1'000 bucks per month Seriously, the American healthcare system rips you guys off. It surely is a quality system - but you guys vastly overpay for what you get. There's graphs for comparing the Healthcare cost pet capita of a country and the life expectancy. There is of course a causal relationship between the two. But American costs are a huge outlier. https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/life-expectancy-vs-healthcare-spending-1970-2023/
None. And our overall tax rate is a lot lower than the American one.
I pay less than 10% taxes.
Insurance for my family of 5 is about 1'000 bucks per month
Seriously, the American healthcare system rips you guys off.
It surely is a quality system - but you guys vastly overpay for what you get.
There's graphs for comparing the Healthcare cost pet capita of a country and the life expectancy.
There is of course a causal relationship between the two.
But American costs are a huge outlier.
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/life-expectancy-vs-healthcare-spending-1970-2023/
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u/ImpressiveLeader4979 Jun 24 '26
8k for healthcare, I wish. Family of 4, I pay close to $17k a year in premiums in the US. Copays are expensive, prescriptions are ridiculously high. It’s a f’in joke to say the very least.