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It’s not that much. https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/cost-of-employer-sponsored-health-insurance https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/cost-of-employer-sponsored-h...
by raw_anon_1111 7mo ago
It’s not that much.
https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/cost-of-employer-sponsored-health-insurance https://www.peoplekeep.com/blog/cost-of-employer-sponsored-h...
A small company can use a PEO like Rippling (a YC company) where employees are “co employed” with the actual company and for taxes/HR/benefits with for Rippling. It’s not like contracting. Everyone from the CEO down is “co employed”
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- ceejayoz 7mo agoIt really is. The US saw an average of $14,885 per-capita healthcare costs in 2024. Higher now.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoI’m never going to defend the American health care system as I sit in a country now for six weeks where I fully plan to become a resident of post retirement mainly because of the healthcare even if I don’t live here full time.
- lostlogin 7mo agoI think the world would be a much better place if travel was more common. Having people see how other countries work on a regular basis really opens your eyes. And then you have travel and expensive healthcare to pay for.
- raw_anon_1111 7mo agoI’m also not treating these six weeks as a tourist. My wife and I both learning Spanish - she’s just starting I’m at around a high A2 (https://www.escuela-hablamos.com/en/understanding-the-common-european-framework-of-reference-cefr-for-spanish-as-a-foreign-language/ https://www.escuela-hablamos.com/en/understanding-the-common...). We are involved in ex pat groups on Facebook, have gone to meet ups, and are having dinner with a few people we have met.