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Does it really matter if cost is in "insurance" or in tax? Wouldn't overall lower total be better?

• ryandrake 11mo ago
  Some people would rather pay $4000/mo to an insurance company than $2000/mo in taxes. I don't get it, either but here we are.
  • johnnienaked 11mo ago
    That's obviously a false dichotomy. Almsot no one is paying $4k/mo for insurance premiums.
    • stephen_g 11mo ago
      And nobody is paying $2K a month for healthcare taxes either!
      • ryandrake 11mo ago
        One again, HN rat-holes on a detail rather than the overall message. Replace what I wrote with "Some people would rather pay $2X/mo to an insurance company than $X/mo in taxes." Jeez!
        • johnnienaked 11mo ago
          It just doesn't have the same rhetorical effect when you make it even, does it?
      • johnnienaked 11mo ago
        When I lived in Canada I paid about $4k a month in taxes, the majority of which went to health care