My mid level health insurance is now $43 a week or just over $2,230 a year. It goes up every year with zero improvement to what I am offered or the service. I’m really starting to question whether I want to work for two week a year to pay health insurance on top of the Medicare levy I pay
@dropbear how much do you save on glasses, dentists and stuff ?
@dropbear interesting. I don't have any private medical. I pay about £4k national insurance a year which covers NHS and any benefits or pensions I'll claim in the future
@dropbear tell them if they want more money, they have to increase their productivity first

@dropbear

If you quit, I'll quit mine too!

Each year I think that if I'd just put the premiums in a bank account, I'd have enough to cover my miniscule health expenses, and make a massive profit, which I could spend on preventatively healthy things like a gym membership, or a bicycle.
Buuuut, I end up paying the lazy tax 😤

This year feels different, somehow…

@dropbear I used to have private health insurance ~20 years ago, until one year I literally couldn't afford it, at which case Howard's insane "punish people over 30 with a two percent loading per year" policy kicked in, which made it increasingly unaffordable.