We have a National insurance over here that all Tax payers have to pay. Works out at around 10% of your taxable income so someone on say £30,000 a year will pay 10% of their taxable income (About £24,000) so they pay say £2,400. On top of this the employer pays around the same amount so Just under £5,000 paid for that salary. This is for Health insurance-Dental- certain amount for Optician and the joke that is called the Graduated Pension. Of course you do not only pay for your treatment as a good proportion of that will pay the Doctors- Nurses- and for the structure of the N.H.S.
There is an upper limit on which you do not pay any more- (£55,000?) and those not employed pay nothing. We do not pay for Much- except a proportion of Dental and Optician- but I often wonder if we do get a Good Value Service out of it.
But additional Accident insurance- Unless you require better immediate Medical service- Not many have it over here.
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