Good catch, though any decent health insurance you can get on your own would be quite a lot higher than $7.5k/year. What I currently pay ~$500/month for via work used to be $2k+/month when I was self-employed. So in real-life it wouldn't always be a wash.
> Good catch, though any decent health insurance you can get on your own would be quite a lot higher than $7.5k/year.
I mean, my salary contribution to paying the company-sponsored health plan is ~$2K/month, so 14K/year. That's with my employer paying the other ~half of the cost!