I have everything pretty much ready to launch full time. Time, skills, customers, support from family. But I’d leave my current job behind and with it my family’s health insurance for the foreseeable future. I can’t afford any of the options I’ve seen. It’s the one thing holding me back. Any ideas for affordable health insurance for startups? If you’ve been in the same situation, what did you end up doing?

  • LengAwaits@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Please forgive my ignorance on the topic. You seem to know a lot about it. Are you saying that they save more money than the insurance costs them?

    • ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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      1 month ago

      They don’t save more than the cost, but it’s cheaper to pay someone 50k salary + 30k benefits than 80k salary.

      • LengAwaits@lemmy.world
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        1 month ago

        Okay, thank you. I wasn’t sure. Why couldn’t they just pay them 50k and lobby for single payer to save money? It seems like you’re suggesting that they’d have to raise wages if single payer was implemented? Maybe I’m still confused, because it still seems like they’d save money in the long run?