But you lied when you said you paid for your own health insurance. Your employer pays the majority of it just like my husband's and we contribute a very small portion.
You need to wake up and realize WHEN you get fired, you'll be up the creek. Good luck paying $1200 per month on your salary when you depend on overtime to survive.
rollingrock .. re your "If I didn't work you would pay for my healthcare."
sheezzz .. don't you understand at all that MOST people WANT to work ..
Re healthcare .. MOST people in countries, as Australia et al .. virtually all (think it's all) .. developed industrial countries except seemingly more in the USA, appreciate the sheezzz above, and so have a universal healthcare system .. most don't mind paying the Medicare levy, the great majority don't dwell, or make any big deal about paying for less fortunate people, as you do .. there would be some, though i know anyone who does.
Understand this .. there is no one-upmanship, no 'we are better', none of that bs in this post .. do yourself a favor and spend just a little time on this .. you should have seen all the info, but i think it's a new link for you .. excerpt ..
Program funding
The original Medibank program proposed a 1.35% levy (with low income exemptions) but these bills were rejected by the Senate, and so Medibank was originally funded from general revenue. In October 1976, the Fraser Government introduced a 2.5% levy.
NOTE: Fraser was of the Liberal party (in coalition see Howard also below with the National party (country) .. your Republican .. conservative ..
The program is now nominally funded by an income tax surcharge known as the Medicare levy, which is currently set at 1.5%. An exemption applies to low income earners.
There is an additional levy of 1.0%, known as the Medicare Levy Surcharge, for individuals on high annual incomes (which increased to $70,000 in the 2008 federal budget) who do not have adequate levels of private hospital coverage. This was part of an effort by the former Howard Coalition Federal Government to encourage people towards private health insurance.
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