Aww poor baby try being a public sector worker who has no heslthcare has to work three jobs to make rent and hasn't seen a cost of living wage increase in a decade

Same here - my company has had two years of record profits. I will get a shit raise and the cost of my benefits will increase. And then fake inflation will reappear.

That math doesn't work unless your health insurance is equal to your salary. Algebra.

Insurance 600/month Pay 8000/month 8000-600 = 7400/month After raise 8160/month (+2%) 630/month (+5%) 7530/month Doesn’t work when insurance isn’t equal to your pay

Only if health insurance is 100% of what you make. If you make $80,000 a 2% raise is $1600. If your health insurance premium is $10,000 and goes up by 5%, that’s a $500 increase. You’re still ahead by $1100.

That’s not how math works. Your insurance is part of what you spend you salary on. So if you made 40k, you will now make 40,800, you insurance was 3k a year and now will be 3,150. So you made 650 more when factoring them together.

That’s not how it works unless your health insurance is 100% of your pay.

Your ability to do math is a pretty obvious indicator of why you’re a government employee.

Your math is not correct. Plug the numbers into a calculator.

The physician medicare fee schedule will be cut for the fifth yr in a row