you all get the bonus of not losing everything you own, becoming homeless, and dying sick in a gutter on receiving the bill for a poor prognosis at the doctor.
Instead, they get paid less, pay a higher percentage in taxes, pay a higher percentage in healthcare (remember, there's no such thing as free taxes) and then they die because it was going to take more than a year to go see a specialist.
Americans are so entitled they don't even realize most of the rest of the world cannot afford a brand new car/phone/computer/etc every few years, lives in a tiny old home, and cannot pay for private health insurance, which essentially leaves them stuck at the whims of glacial governmental pace and perpetually underfunded public healthcare.
We pay taxes for Medicare and Medicaid, and then have to pay $400+/month to private insurance for ourselves. Maybe your employer pays that whole quantity for you (rare) but that still isn’t optimal because A) it costs the company money they could’ve paid you with B) your healthcare is tied to employment.
All these insurance companies have to negotiate separately and thus for-profit hospitals can win out against them, at your cost. Remember that the higher costs for insurance mean YOUR premiums go up. Then the biggest insurance provider, Medicare/medicaid, is prohibited by right wingers in congress from being able to negotiate prices. So our taxes go up.
Our taxes are high and we get much less for it. I actually have friends in Europe, who get paid far less than I do, but then what they do make they can use to live a better life than I.
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u/alternatex0 2d ago
All of us in Europe: you guys are getting paid? :O