I'm absolutely not saying the US health care is good, but assuming you're a tech worker on a good salary the US health system is probably the best in the world.

I'm absolutely not saying the US health care is good, but assuming you're a tech worker on a good salary the US health system is probably the best in the world. For comparison I live in the UK where we have universal health care. If you're on a good salary, you'll probably be paying about $7,000 - $10,000 a year in tax for health care. Around $3,000 - $6,000 in income tax, then maybe another $4,000 from various other taxes such as the living in a house tax, the driving a car tax, the watching a TV tax, and the buying stuff at the supermarket tax. For your $7,000 - $10,000 you'll basically get the worst health care imaginable for a developed country, but it's "free" at the point of service so we still get to act smug when talking to Americans. I've used the NHS twice in the last decade. One time I was in agony from an ear infection and was told I'd have wait three months to see an ENT. Thankfully I was only in agony for another month before the infection clear up on its own. The other time I had fatty liver disease, although this wasn't diagnosed by the NHS because despite visiting them in pain three times over the course of a year they refused to run any tests because in their opinion I was probably fine, and on the third time the doctor outright accused me of wasting his time. Given that abdominal pain obviously isn't normal I got private testing done and found out I had fairly advanced fatty liver disease due to being homozygous for the PNPLA3 I148M variant. On top of this I know two people who died of cancer in the last three years. One was just 29 years old. She went to the doctor for about a year complaining of pains and vaginal bleeding. They kept turning her away and saying she was fine. When they finally ran tests they diagnosed her with stage 3 cervical cancer and she died a few weeks later. In my opinion had she had lived in the US it's very likely she would still be alive.