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Free healthcare!

I pay 9% of my income in Poland for the public healthcare I couldn't use due to enormous queues. Therefore I pay subscription to the private medical provider, pay for dentistry, for all the medicine prescribed by any doctor(public as well).

What percentage of income typical software spends for medical insurance and bills?

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In the US? Having to go to the hospital, having an illness etc can cost tens of thousands of dollars. Other countries pay more per paycheck, we pay a lot more per bill.

Going to the hospital would bankrupt me even as a relatively well off software engineer and even with my decent (work-tied) healthcare I still have months of wait time. In order to get into a doctor I made an appointment in February for a visit in September.

In US if you are a software engineer, what percentage of your salary would you spend for health insurance, medicine, copay etc?

Healthcare shouldn't be something only software engineers and other well off people can afford.

If you're a software engineer, your employer would provide you with a plan that covers most, or even all of the cost.

Then it is actual free healthcare for US developer but expensive and useless "free" for me. What a joke!

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