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Your workplace probably pays $500/month for your health insurance. If the employer has to stop paying that and you pay $500/month in taxes instead, it will be
by mahyarm 10y ago
Your workplace probably pays $500/month for your health insurance. If the employer has to stop paying that and you pay $500/month in taxes instead, it will be about break even anyway. Or even less, since I more forsee a %1-%2 tax increase vs. the current %4-6+ tax that is health insurance.
- stvswn 10y agoI think you're assuming that there won't be over-the-top optional healthcare that we'd all (as in, people w/ good insurance at the moment) have to buy in order to meet the same quality we currently have.
- mahyarm 10y agoJust going by my experience in Canada, most people don't buy too much extra. You still have to get dental & vision although, but the costs for that are minor. Many don't buy any health insurance at all.
- refurb 10y agoCanadians are also used to a very different level of healthcare. If you can convince a vast chunk of Americans to wait 12+ months for a joint replacement, then yes it could work.