[pflenker]

1) I doubt that you pay as much. I pay less than half of that and have a comfortable salary. Did you include the "Arbeitgeberanteil" (which is not part of what you are paying)? 2) You can't easily extrapolate that number to a whole family. Kids are usually insured for free if the higher-earning parent is not privately insured.

[greenavocado]

No, this is on par with what my friends in Germany pay for their family. The difference is Germans have nearly no deductible and there is little worry about in-network vs out-of-network treatments.

[shasts]

This is quite possible, right?

For eg: if you work for a Swiss or US employer and make more than 69k(?), say 100k, as a freelancer, and have a family, you have to pay around 14%(upper limit somewhere around 1000) of the income as health insurance contribution.

I think it is costly. It is difficult to digest for me that the health insurance costs more than housing.