i'm guaranteed 30 days of paid leave at 100% of my normal wages which is outside of my pto. i accrue 7 weeks of pto per year which i could also use in conjunction with this. i have no need for 480 days of paid leave because i make enough money that my wife, who is a stay at home mom, doesn't have to work and therefore after staying home to help out for the first month or so there really is no need for me to be away from work for any longer than that. also, when she went to the hospital to give birth, the whole stay was $17,000. i could have taken photographs of the bill and posted it on the internet for rage porn, but the reality is that out of that $17,000 bill we paid something like $1,000 and that's because we hadn't hit an out of pocket maximum for the year. the one year where we had our baby but in addition to that i'd had surgery to repair a hernia i suffered while lifting weights, the hospital stay was "free" as they say elsewhere. nothing is free of course, but we didn't pay the mythical thousand upon thousands of dollars everyone assumes we pay. average wage earners in canada for example pay roughly 10% of the salary alone in taxes for medical services, or ~$6,500 canadian fun-bux or $4,600 us goy-shekels. this would be $383 per month. i pay $150/mo for my health insurance, and i don't have to get in a wait queue to be seen by my doctors or treated for conditions. but whatever, socialism hooray, etc.
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