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?

  • @GiddyGap@lemm.eeOP
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    107 months ago

    I can, but it’s still outrageously expensive compared to my current situation. It would put a lot of financial stress on us in a situation that’s already stressful in every way possible.

    • @tonyn@lemmy.ml
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      137 months ago

      I have my own business and buy my health insurance from the marketplace. Yes it’s expensive, but at a job that’s just part of your salary you never see.

          • @LengAwaits@lemmy.world
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            47 months ago

            Wow! Companies could sure save a lot of money if they lobbied for single-payer! I wonder why they don’t! 🤔

            • Maeve
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              27 months ago

              Don’t you go givin folks ideas, now, whippersnapper!

            • @ryathal@sh.itjust.works
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              37 months ago

              Paying for Healthcare for employees is a way to increase effective compensation while reducing tax burden. By paying for health insurance the company doesn’t have to pay payroll taxes for that amount, and it’s a business expense that can reduce income tax burdens.

              • @LengAwaits@lemmy.world
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                17 months 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?

                  • @LengAwaits@lemmy.world
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                    17 months 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?

          • Maeve
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            17 months ago

            So you’re paying through the nose. Ouch.