[adventured]

That's incorrect. Essentially all decent paying jobs in the US take care of most or all of the healthcare cost you're referring to. That is especially true for eg software developers who earn six figures at the median.

To balance a proper comparison if you're going to include the EU taxes re healthcare, you would have to inflate US wages even higher to account for the benefit that employees receive (money that otherwise would be available for labor competition in the form of salary), which is often a large sum of money given the cost of US healthcare.

US healthcare per capita is typically 100% (double) more expensive than in Western Europe. It's about 130% more expensive versus Britain. It's 200%+ more expensive versus Italy.

A software developer earning $125,000 - $150,000 per year is receiving a minimum of an additional 10% equivalent of their salary in the form of healthcare coverage. More likely 15-20% these days. The cost to put a small family on a good health plan will easily run you $20,000+ per year.

[mtnGoat]

you might want to check the stats for the claims in your first paragraph, unless "decent job" in this case is top 5%. Only 49% of Americans have employer sponsored health plans and most of those are not entirely paid for by the employer. and only 91% of Americans are insured.

[totalrobe]

My family healthcare coverage at my "decent paying job" at a software company in the US cost me about $13,000 out of pocket in 2018 including employee premium and medical cost before reaching deductible. I would certainly consider that to be an additional tax when comparing against the EU tax rates that include healthcare.