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For my family it's about £2800, or $3900. My wife doesn't pay tax, but I earn in the top decile. Probably a little more due to spending on vat and other indirect taxes (petrol tax etc), call it $4200.

However my parents, gran, and my mother in law combined pay under $1000 a year between them.

On the other hand a premiership footballer pays about $250,000 a year for health. Plus their own private health care costs of whatever. That's the price they pay for living in our society though, a society where people aren't afraid to go to the doctors to check out that mole, or rush to give birth because they can't afford an extra day in hospital.



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