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$0. I'm a veteran with a disability rating of 40% after several deployments overseas. This means I get free healthcare for life through the VA(although my fami
by shartshooter 7y ago
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I'm a veteran with a disability rating of 40% after several deployments overseas. This means I get free healthcare for life through the VA(although my family is not covered through the VA, instead through my wife's employer).
If I didn't have VA coverage we'd have to spend $800/mo for me to be added to my wife's plan. Incurring an extra $800/mo out of the gates would have likely been a non-starter.
That was a significant factor in my ability to step out on my own.
It feels like America is really hamstringing our entrepreneurs by not having a medicare-for-all or some other public option.
- fastbeef 7y agoThis weirds me out so much about US. It is (was?) touted as a beacon of entrenourship and savvy business thinking, but a lot of things seem to be right downward hostile towards business. The parent is an indication of this - he wouldn't have considered starting a business unless his health care was taken care of. Other things like taxes, beaurocracy and legal matters seem extremly convoluted and unfriendly to business when compared to Sweden, which is often painted a socialist.
- pietroglyph 7y agoWhen people say the US is business friendly, I think they’re really observing that the US is big-business friendly. Convoluted taxes allow big business and the very wealthy to evade them more easily. Convoluted bureaucracy makes it easy to get ahead by working the loopholes, which you can only do if you’re big enough. Same thing for other legal matters. All of this is really a cautionary tale of regulatory capture pushed by vested interests, usually at the expense of working people.