• Peddlephile@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    I’m not American, and just wondering if it’s a requirement to have the $600/m taken from your pay, which I’m assuming is for health insurance? That’s a crazy amount to throw away every year, especially if you still have to pay extra for treatments that you need for functioning.

    • LifeOfChance@lemmy.world
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      11 months ago

      I’m not sure the laws and such but I only have the insurance because I have a 6y/o who does need medications and regular visits. Though we got a letter letting us know they will no longer be covering them. We have insurance through my wife who has to have it in order to cover our daughter and to add me isn’t much more so that’s the only reason I even have it.