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In reply to the discussion: Who do you blame for no universal health care in the first place? I blame all the people against it. [View all]dugog55
(307 posts)When I retired at 60 years old, I was allowed to stay on the company plan until I received Medicare at 65. The Company "supposedly" was paying $18k of the plan, and I had to pay the remainder which was $600 month. So that "B" level plan cost $26K a year. This was in 2014. So if the average working family now is paying just $20K for a plan while their income is the average $70K, that health plan is costing them almost 25% of their salary. But, if we had national health insurance and had to tax everyone 7-10% to cover it, they would go crazy having to pay that tax.
Face it, too many people in this country are just plain stupid. There is no fix for this. They are lied to and believe it by the Right, and the will cut off their nose to spite their face.
And I hated to use an "average" salary figure, as I am sure that the high wage earners tilt the average up a lot more than half the country actually earns. I would like to see and average salary after deleting the top 5% of earners. I think it would be stunningly low.