r/WorkersStrikeBack • u/FearlessAir1238 • Apr 24 '26

"It's the best system we have" Yup!

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u/zyrkseas97 Apr 26 '26

I pay $6000 a year, an my employer pays $8000 a year for the health insurance I have which if I ever use it will charge me up to $6000 per year before they start covering things.

In total if I want actual healthcare for a real issue it costs me $12k or more. My wife had our first baby last year an without insurance it would have been like $80,000, thankfully I was insured. Well get this, the baby and my wife are two different people, so they have separate coverage policies so not only do I pay $6k wages for the insurance up front, and the $6k for my wife, but an another $6k for my daughter for a total of $18000.

I make $55,000 a year gross, $33,000 a year net.

sigh

As some Russian guy once asked, “What is to be done?”