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~~I think you may have read that backwards.~~ (didn't see edit till I finished posting so I'm keeping the rest)
If the plan is 'good', then the part the employee 'pays' each month is low and could be in the hundreds each year before paying for any care they actually receive. But the employer is shouldering the rest of the costs behind the scene as part of the cost to employ. That means whatever they spend on insurance is money not going to your income so it really doesn't matter if it is paid directly by the employer or employee, that is all smoke an mirrors.
As an example for state employee plans from 2020:
This means the insurance company is collecting $959 dollars per state employee per month just to have them on the plan ($11,508 /yr) -The state is paying $808 per month ($9,696 /yr) -The employee is paying $154 per month ($1848 /yr)
This is all before office copays, medicine, emergency room copays, hospital bills, care clinic visits, and any service where you pay something to access service. This is generally decent to good insurance in the US and we pay well over the cost per person in other countries just to be insured.
To drive home that this is not an outlier, this is the cost that each country spends on health care per person United States $12,555 Switzerland $8,049 Germany $8,011 Norway $7,898 Netherlands $7,358 Austria $7,275 Belgium $6,600 Australia $6,597 France $6,517 Sweden $6,438
Everyone in Sweden is covered for healthcare, they don't need to pay at the point of service, and they spend about half of what the US does on average including the uninsured.