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[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It only sounds like a lot of taxes to us Americans that don't actually do the math... I'm making almost 60kUSD so it's a very real comparison for me. Like your 4.6k healthcare tax is my 14.4k pay cut (mandatory healthcare coverage for full time employees paid for by the owner @1,200/month for me) Your 5k general tax is higher than my 3.6k income tax, but everything else offsets that by such a large margin that arguing against it is laughable.

Thing is we also pay a ton of of pocket when we go to the doctor too.

I wish we had a number to use like your 4.6k but for America so in our arguments for universal healthcare we could show just how much more we really pay...

Sorry for all the edits, I remember as I reread lol

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If i remeber correctly the US could cut its healthcare costs in half by switching to an universal healthcare system, while granting healthcare to everyone.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

A not insignificant amount of money goes towards administrative pay for all the middlemen involved...

Everyone has to get their slice of the... (Checks notes) necessary medical treatment of human beings... Ughh...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

but how would the middlemen line their pockets?