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Car or health insurance?
Car insurance is relatively cheap IIRC, health, not so much.
Also, one is mandatory and the other is an optional luxury for far too many people.
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Also, one is mandatory and the other is an optional luxury for far too many people.
Especially factoring in the elite tiers:
Entry level- Health Insurance
Yuppie level- Health and dental
Gentry level- Unlimited health, dental and vision
0.1% package- all the above plus mental healthEdit- in some rural places (deepest Appalachia, Alaska, New Mexico...) teeth are still considered luxury bones.
Adhiero
But you've also got to factor in insurance.
While I'm not up on the tax rates in different states, when I was there I was quite surprised by how high tax was for lower and middle income brackets.
Very anecdotal by overall my takeaway vs the UK was; 1. Wages are generally higher, 2. Tax for the majority of people is the same, 3. Cost of housing is cheaper and bigger, 4. Cost of groceries (assuming not pure junk and meat) is much higher. 5. Other than clothes, cost of goods is higher (obviously some exceptions with US products/Apple/etc.)
If you're a an upper-middle or higher earner I think you probably end up with a better deal because you both get paid more gross and pay less tax. For everyone else, I'm not so sure.
If course the USA is huge there's as much variation as you'd get in Europe.