kujebak wrote:
> Excuse me, but that' not what I asked. I asked what
> ****tion of *your* paycheck is eaten away by health
> insurance premiums. Never mind what the employer
> pays. I'll tell you what I pay - I pay 1.5% tax for Medi-
> care, OK, that's for financing care for retirees and dis-
> abled. Then I pay another 1.5% of my gross for my
> ****tion of health plan premiums for myself, and my
> family. As I said, what the employer kicks in is imma-
> terial, because, although, unlike y'all up in the Ame-
> rica's Hat, I can opt out of employer sponsored health
> coverage, but I would never see that money if I did.
> So there's no point in losing any sleep over it. OK, there
> we go, all summed up, it is only a big, fat 3% of what
> I earn. Now for that, I get first class, otherwise heretofore
> referred to as cadillac health care.
>
> Now, would one of you Canadiuans care to tell me
> how much your "guaranteed health care" is costing
> you - as far as how much more money, in relative terms,
> you could be bringing home if you had the option of
> not participating in your triaged involuntary national
> (or provincial, or whatever) health system?
There is no way to tell. All these costs are buried inside provincial and
federal income taxes. Suffice to say that the max. marginal rate of
income
tax is now 48% and that gets triggered at around $100k.
However, I can tell you how much more than that do I have to pay for
various additional health insurances necessary to provide me with the
coverage I want. Let me look at my on-line paycheck...
OK, here it is:
Group Insurance 36.71
Disability Insurance 17.86
Extended Health Care 13.81
Vision Care 2.84
Dental 28.86
Semi-Private Care 2.14
I pay 25% of cost, my employer pays 75% of cost, so mutiply the above
numbers by 4 to get the actual cost.
Cheers
Frank
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