Let me correct something here.
March 30th, 2010 | by admin |This is what 1 reader had to say about a story we did called “Is Costa Rica Right?“
As a hotel owner let me explain to the readers how Costa Ricans” pay” for their health care.
The employer draws 9% off the Ticos salary for the CAJA, Social Security. The employer pays about 23% of the employee’s salary to the Caja. A Heavy hit.
That gives the Tico his 100% health care. PLUS. YES PLUS.
More than 3 days off work due to illness, I pay the first 3 at 50% and the Caja pays him 50% of his salary for any time off after 3 days. Even if it’s a year. There is a disability included if it’s permanent…..cancer, stroke etc.
PLUS. The employer is required to have a separate policy with INS, the governments insurance company, so if the employee gets hurt on the job, it pays 75% of his salary for time off. Even if it’s a year.
This is what they get for the 9% withdrawn. And you, dear reader?
PLUS. The employer is required to pay aguinaldo, a one month salaries bonus at the beginning of Dec every year so the Tico has some extra cashola for the holidays .Every employed tico is entitled, by law.
12 vacation days are paid and the worker is off. Non negotiable. They take the days off.
The Ticos that earn over 15K, I think, must pay 10% of their salary to the govt as an income tax. Earners, or companies, making more than 25K pay 15% flat.
There’s your retirement program.
Yep. Costa Rica, unlike the fallen empire, has things figured out. Of course when you’re not busy spreading DemoNcracy and FreeDumb…..bombing “evil” into the stone age to steal natural resources……..many, many, things are possible.
When the great Don Pepe # http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Figueres_Ferrer # re wrote the constitution in 1949, he had decided that Costa Rica was big enough and didn’t need to overtake the world and therefore abolished the military.
Imagine. No Ticos, nor their family members, under about 75 or 80 years, old have ever experienced, or financed war or aggression in any form.
They don’t call it Pura Vida ! for nothin’ !
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