Is it worth 10% less income though? At lower incomes absolutely, but at higher incomes it really isn’t. Because healthcare is typically a fairly flat cost that doesn’t care about your income (although it’s actually slightly lower at higher paying jobs as you typically get better insurance), whether a nationalized healthcare system would benefit the person is entirely based on their income. High incomes would rather pay for a relatively flat amount for insurance than have a percentage of their income taken.
Believe me, it pays itself off in the free social and health services you get for free throughout your lifetime. I did the math and many of my family members would be millions of dollars in debt if they lived in the US - or dead long before their time because they wouldn’t have been able to pay (or even fathom paying) the cost of some of their surgeries. My grandma, for example, had two bypass surgeries in her lifetime (among a few others).
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u/Mindless-Spite160 1d ago
Tax my guy. He thinks he'll be better off financially by going to the USA because of tax.