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[–] GissaMittJobb@lemmy.ml 2 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

You can't opt out of government-provided health insurance. It's not even really referred to as health insurance, it's really just referred to as health care.

I get my additional private health insurance paid for by my employer, so I never actually pay myself, but the same one seems to be going for about €110 a month.

I don't know that I would buy it if I had to pay myself, but I'm quite happy to get it for the small amount of additional taxes I have to pay on the benefit from the employer.

[–] lucg@lemmy.world 1 points 20 hours ago* (last edited 20 hours ago)

Thanks! Good system that you can't opt out imo, everyone needs to at least fund it even if (perhaps not good but idk) not everyone needs to also use it (thinking of rich people in power)