Australians Guess American Medical Costs
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- Опубликовано: 9 янв 2020
- I ask random Australians to guess the American price of an MRI, inhaler, a day in hospital and other medical costs that are ridiculously expensive in the United States of America. Sources below.
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I did a really bad job at clarifying this, but the "Australian prices" in this video are what it would cost if you went to a private hospital in Australia without private insurance. Many of these costs are completely free in public hospitals in Australia, no insurance needed. The purpose of this video was to highlight how much the base/true medical costs differs between USA and Australia.
I spent 5 weeks in hospital and didn't have to pay a cent for anything. Not meals, not the bed, not the medications, not the care from the nursing staff or doctors, not the blood tests, not the scans. However, when I exited the hospital they gave me a range of medications, needles, antibiotics, anti-inflammatories, pain killers, you name it, I was walking pharmacy, had to take them all home with me or they wouldn't release me. Seriously, a big brown bag full of that shit. Cost me ~ $60 through medicare. Wasn't covered by the hospital because I was no longer a patient *in* the hospital.
Edit: Yes, I'm Australian, not American, if that wasn't obvious. ;P
@mod72cfw Unfortunately mod72, it seems that a good portion of your population doesn't understand this, which is why I took the time to spell it out . :)
Hopefully in the future your country will have the benefit of a similar system to ours.
Nothing's free it's taxes payers (working people) money, remember it's not government money.
@@epicbeardface2981 yeah, free healthcare just means we don't pay out of pocket. We pay through taxes but because if that we don't go bankrupt. I wouldn't replace the NHS for American healthcare any day
Not FREE given you pay taxes to cover the costs. It’s just a different funding model. You still pay.
I'm Australian, about 10 years ago I got an aggressive cancer, I ended up saying in hospital over over 3 months, MRI's, X-rays, 2 weeks in intensive care, 2.5 months in acute care, a 14 hour surgery by the leading specialist in the country for this type of operation, not to mention about a week of daily visits to another hospital prior to the operation, and many weeks of follow ups.
All at no cost. I have been cancer free since then.
Glad you recovered mate. Enjoy your new life
To think in the US you'd be homeless or dead. Truly the land of the free
@@jacobbeal8033 You would probably also get charged interest on the debt for everyday you don’t pay it off, so unless you’re rich you will never pay off your debt.
Makes me laugh that guy saying "best health care In the world" it's shit pretty shit too expensive and hospital life is miserable and yaaaa
@@craigbaker593 land of the fee, home of the grave
but thry have half a trillion bucks in their yearly military spending so hoo-hah for that
The fact that people will ask you NOT to call an ambulance in the states because they can't afford it speaks volumes. (about $2,500 if you were curious)
People who have epilepsy have bands to tell people not to call the ambulance if they have a seizure
I read somewhere that it was around $3.000, but idk
Just get a Uber, wayyy cheaper and take some ibuprofen. 👌
As an anerican I'm not suprised...
The national average is 5k
Fun fact, in the U.S. people also don't know costs Once you're in a hospital nobody will tell you until the bill comes in your mail
Scam. What other service runs like that? Scam
They think it was cheap before and trump came into office and made everything expensive. Totally not true. The US government spent 1.2 trillion on healthcare in 2019.
@@noahremnek3615 The only reason the U.S. spent that much is because prices are kept artificially high by private hospitals to get the most money out of insurance companies. Most politicians don’t want to fix this issue because they are against “regulation” and/or love lobbyist money (lobbying would be seen as form of corruption in other first world countries, but not the U.S.). A lot of them believe the “free market” should be able to do whatever it wants.
LOL right
@@icebergrose8955 Student loans work like that too. You have the amount you borrow, but then the interest compounds DAILY so you pay your entire life and can't discharge them.
You're not a patient. You're a customer.
Edit: Spelling
Best comment ever for this situation!
You're not a customer. You're the product.
a costumer is someone making/managing costumes
no, the product is what they charge you thousands or more for despite it being free in most countries
Your not much of a customer when insurance is involved.
I am a American and I once suffered a major mountain bike accident. I was riding my bike around Tucson AZ and I hit a patch of gravel and I lost control of my bike. I fell 40ft into some rocks. I had to get helicoptered out and got sent to the hospital. I brokey left leg, shattered my hand, fractured my spine and suffered a concussion. I was in the hospital for 11 days 2 of which were unconscious. By the time I left I had over $78,000 in medical bills with insurance. If it was not for my family helping with the bills it could have gone a lot worse. So I admire some actually good health care.
Dominic Innecken I’m sorry! Hope you’re better now! And you mean the US, because Canada (which is also in america) and most countries have free healthcare (and what isn’t free is spare change)
@@Cassxowary yes I do men the USA but unfortunately here it can be hard because most people have healthcare though there job and that usually means you might be accepted in only one hospital is the city. And I am doing better still hurt from time to time but mostly just fine. Mentally I do have some serious brain issues like occasional seizures and severe vision problems. But I am alright. Just added a new injury to my ever growing list I cut my hand open by slipping on a power saw so.....yeah.🙄
@@dominicinnecken935 oh heck I hope you are allright with both of the accidents. Insurance through work...wow...how about having a permanent care and scared of loosing your job at the same time...thats no life. You constantly live in fear then.
@Lulu Jones that is so scary. I hope the USA dont see programs like the obamacare like a socialist program. Because we all see the US got that word pretty much stigmatized as evil. I pray for them.
@StanislavyeungHK den u fuk
Once upon a time I was crossing the street and someone wasn't looking where he was driving and hit me. I suffered torn ligaments and a brain injury. All said and done after my insurance paid out, I was still on the hook for $250,000 worth of medical bills. I had to hire a lawyer to negotiate with the insurance companies and in the end only ended up on the hook for $17,000. Did I mention I couldn't work for almost a year due to the brain injury and wasn't eligible to go on any disability or social security so my elderly parents had to take a second mortgage out to help me? America is the flashiest third world country you'll ever see!
I am so sorry you had to go through that. I do my share of whinging about our system, but at least I'll never have to go into debt due to an accident that wasn't my fault. I hope you are well now
Wtf how'd the government get out of paying you disability??? That's absolutely insane it's exactly what it's for!
Damn, that's sad.
I’m so sorry that happened.
Hope you’re doing better now! Sending care!
and this is exactly why i try my hardest not to break any bones😂😂
Don’t leave the house without bubble wrap! 😜
I am in Australia, major accident and multiple fractures. Cost me nothing.
@@mareebrown2163 your country blessed
Kaleena Mae or move to Canada😂
Also, nice name!
Did he just ask the dude that dress like steve irwin if he’s australian 😂
Josephu Star-lin he’s literally like a stereotypical/cartoon/Steve Irwin
and to be fair, it/ what a US american would do 😂
anyone who calls someone a dude surely isn't Australian
He looks like an American going to a fancy-dress party as an Australian.
As a lifelong U.S. citizen it was ground into our minds that we were the BEST at EVERYTHING. We ARE the best, we HAVE the best healthcare, the best human rights, civil rights, the best wages, the best homes, the best quality of life, we are the heroes of every conflict, every war, we are the peacemaker's to the world. NONE of this has EVER been true, and especially now our country is a global joke, an embarrassment on the world stage. Living in the U.S. today is like being tied to a chair while watching a toddler play with a loaded gun....I'm getting the hell out of here.
At least some Americans are conscious of their situation.
Hope you make it out safely, for real
@@nathenbosher1067 Yeah same, If they weren’t then god pray for the people there
After hearing how America is the worlds greatest country for 19 years, I’m finally realizing that’s not true. I still see on the news how the rest of the world wishes they were like us and almost every image the media has shown of other countries is poverty and war. I honestly didn’t even realize that other countries had free healthcare (and I’m still not even sure how that works). And whenever the argument of a program other countries have had for years is brought up, media here says its a failure in that country or that the system is communist. It’s still so hard to think another way than the US system.
@@romancorey6796 Look, I have my eyes open but some of you don't seem have yours open. It's far from perfect in the USA, but the reason we don't have free healthcare is that our budget goes into the massive war machine! Europe doesn't have to do that because they have us. Same for Australia more or less. I know the Aussies are tough and have a military but we are their allies so they don't have to beef up, not like we do. If Europe didn't have the USA protecting them then they would have to put 120% of their budget into beefing up their military and wouldn't have any money for free healthcare or other social programs. I don't know what the answer is. I want to protect smaller countries, but I also would like healthcare and other programs like some European countries or Australia, but if we didn't have the sizeable military that the USA has then China and Russia would run amok and nobody would be safer for it.
You guys don't get it.. you're supposed to rob a bank to cover your medical bills. With how bad the police is there, you have good chance of walking free and having no debt.
cops in the us are a military that would be almost impossible
aamgdp if you’re white you’re fine too...
1000000000 views unless you’re white...
I'm instantly reminded of the middle aged man who "robbed" a bank of a single dollar so he would get arrested so he could get the medical care he needed.
In Malaysia, the cost of consultancy by a specialist at a government hospital is about RM50 (USD15). The cost of staying in the hospital is about RM5 a day. That's less than two dollars. Malaysian healthcare is not the best in the world. But at least it wouldn't bankrupt you or your family.
Not RM50, but RM5. And the medicines are FREE
same with canadian.
Lol my birth in the US was $70k if I didn't have insurance. This was without an epidural, c-section or NICU stay. I paid $3k after my monthly insurance. I'm originally from Australia, so this was a huge shock.
There's a video going around that they charge you if you want to hold your own baby once its born? Is this true?
Goodness me, that's a deposit for a house, shocking
@@rtsharlotte I think that's only if you have a c-section. It's like $40 to hold the baby after a c-section. I went to the hospital one time for a broken arm. They gave me an ice pack in the waiting room. I thought it was just a nice gesture by the nurse, but they charged me a few hundred dollars for it on my bill lol. It was only a piece of crap ice pack, not like it was anything fancy.
@@Engineer_Heathen You seriously got charge a couple of hundred dollars for an ice pack while waiting to see a doctor? That's disgraceful. You make it sound like it's acceptable to charge to hold your own baby?
@@rtsharlotte yup, it was just one of those ice packs you get in a crappy first aid kit. And no I don't think it's okay to charge somebody to hold their baby, but that's just how it is. I hate our medical system.
I’m American and I had a crash in January of this year. In the accident I broke my neck and had to go to the hospital and stay for a day and a half. I think so far it ended up costing $30,000 for just a hospital stay, but luckily insurance exists
In Australia, in your situation the patient will pay nothing as in 000. The ambulance will pick you up from the scene of accidents, then take you to the nearest govt hospital emergency hospital and charge you nothing. In the govt hospital all tests MRI, surgical operations, medications etc. are free. If you have no transport to go home, ambulance will take you home free charge.
@@pinayladyoz8044 All true except there is an Ambulance free of around $800 in Australia ( costs you nothing with a $60 a year ambulance insurance )
@@iggyblitz8739 I'm from QLD we don't pay QAS.
I have a Doctor friend who is employed by an Australian health insurance company, he basically has to fly to the U.S. to bring Aussies home to be treated as the U.S. would cripple them.
Land of free as long as you’re rich
Which is not hard to be rich here 😂
Lulu Jones u just a bit too dumb 🤣
@@TsunamicBug we have 13 percent of our population the world average is 18 percent in poverty per country
America land of the fee
and white. and a man.
I called an ambulance to take me to the nearest emergency hospital, when I arrived in emergency department I had CT scan, X-ray, blood tests, surgical operation for ruptured acute appendicitis, had several days intravenous antibiotics and pain relief. I stayed 4 days in the hospital in Brisbane Australia - I was discharged in the hospital and bill was 00000 as in zero. I was offered free oxycodone tablets to go home I refused. I am forever grateful to Australian Medicare system and PBS.
I've asked my American friends about this too, it's so ridiculous. I made a list of all the medications, procedures, and surgeries I had over the past 5 years and asked them how much it would cost in the States and the total ranged from $10,000-$25,000. When I told them I spent no money on this list in my country they were in disbelief. 2 of them literally didn't believe me, like they refused to listen and thought I was joking.
Honestly I don’t even know how a free healthcare care system works. Anytime someone tries to explain it I get so confused that you don’t pay for anything.
@@romancorey6796 in the UK you pay a type of tax (in some countries it is just included in income tax) called national insurance, which pays for our health service (the NHS) and social care programs like maternity pay. It works the same way as an insurance company would, except everyone earning above the threshold pays into it. Because of this the fund is much larger than that of a private insurance company, which means when we go to hospital or doctors, our healthcare is payed for out of this government fund. In simple terms it's a large savings account which everyone paying tax in the UK contributes to. In england the only thing we have to pay out of pocket is prescriptions, which are I think £9 each.
We are bloody lucky 🇦🇺💛
Your not wrong mate 🇦🇺🇦🇺
an we American are blood unlucky
Even as an indian I got no free health care but our costs rounds maximum upto 300$ like everything , the inhalers come in like 13$ lmao
wtf...
this is so sad, when i got hit in the head a while back, the doctor told me i should get an MRI
when i told him its fine i dont need it, he literally said:
''just get it, what do you have to lose, better safe than sorry''.
i ended up getting the MRI a week later and all i paid is 5$ for the parking... im still mad about the 5$...
i cant even imagine how americans feel.
They think it was cheap before and trump came into office and made everything expensive. Totally not true. The US government spent 1.2 trillion on healthcare in 2019.
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Me: * on the brink of death *
Also me: “nobody call an ambulance!”
I am an American, when my son was born, he was born prematurely, had to spend one month in the NICU, and the total coast was $250,000, luckily we were on medicad so it was covered, but if we weren't, I would've just filed for bankruptcy
All together across the 5 surgeries I had when I was younger the total cost for them is approximately $1,800,000 for all of my care I’m very thankful that my parents had an absurdly good insurance plan.
Actually, England has one of the best healthcare systems in the world, and it's free. We have a national health service. You see these Australians asking prices? In the UK, you don't have to pay at all!!
You only have to pay in Australia if you elect to be treated privately
Woah that’s so good!
That’s a bullshit part of this video. A day in Australian hospital costs exactly zero. If you choose to go into a fancy private hospital with chef cooked meals and pay tv then you pay around a grand a night if you don’t have private insurance. Pretty much exactly the same as the UK.
As well, if you choose to be referred to a specialist at your local public outpatient clinic, it costs zero, but you have to wait anywhere from a couple of weeks to a couple of months, depending on how serious it is. If you want an appointment tomorrow, you pay a couple hundred bucks and go tomorrow at a private clinic.
WhoDarestheMAN gamer one of the best . Australia’s Medicare gives the NHS a good run for the money, of course, it’s brilliant to argue over who has the best free universal healthcare and may we continue to compete in that area.
Before healthcare was slightly changed in the US with Obamacare. My mother was paying $993 per month for insurance. Which did not cover a lot of things like surgery among other things.
Also, when she was pregnant with me it was a complicated birth and ended up costing $42,000, in 1992.
That's criminal. I use to work in insurance. They make money by denying the claims. I quit.
@@icebergrose8955 Yeah, I definitely agree with you!
If I injured myself whilst visiting USA.. I would be the guy skipping towards either the canadian border or the airport.
yah or mexico. Mexico still costs but not much/reasonably, and it's really good quality, so it's like canada but the reasonable amount of money is worth it. Canada is basically US one but free.
I was Covid patient in India and was quaratined for around 14 days ..
My Bill was 0.00 rupees in Government Hospital ..
In a Private Hospital it may go around 10000 rupees ( 150 160 Dollars)
As an Australian listening to those girls saying "Don't vote Trump 2020" makes me cringe. It's like they don't understand that the Democrats wouldn't campaign for free healthcare either.
I love that very Australian looking Australian guy
I preferred the UK reaction video since the Brits were far more shocked at the US prices.
get a job, a hobby, instead of wasting it on being a karen
Probably because Aussies have to pay something up front like yanks so expect there to be a cost at use.
@@Gambit771 only for private hospitals, public are free.
They basically just estimated how much it would cost here if they were paying out of pocket (which we usually don’t) and then doubling or tripling it.
I guess Brits are just less aware of how much is being subsidised by the government whereas a lot of people here will pay out of pocket to be seen faster and then get most or all of it back from Medicare later. We have what’s called “bulk billing” where the fee goes straight to Medicare and you pay nothing. But not everywhere does it. Fewer and fewer now because successive conservative governments have frozen the rebates and healthcare providers are losing out on money so we have to make up the shortfall with excesses.
@@geministargazer9830 I'm not sure what you are saying in your first paragraph, but these prices seem in line with those talked about in many many other videos. And the British government subsidises nothing. They pay for it completely. Other countries have systems that give large subsidies.
There are other videos explaining the insane prices in US healthcare, how the prices were pretty similar to other developed countries in the era of Blue Cross, and how with the growth of private insurance, the prices rose faster and faster to the point where people in any other country in the world are aghast.
But yeah, the conservatives have already changed our free university educations to costing more that the US ones and they seem to be wanting to get rid of the NHS and have a for profit health business replace it. They should freeze private consultants out of the NHS completely.
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US hospital
Patient : take a deep breath
Doctor : that's $250 for the oxygen
I wish doctors can’t tell you the price
They actually do charge for breathing treatments or if they do CPR.
"The USA has the best healthcare in the world" NO
Mr Chicken Nugget it doesn’t have any healthcare period. Unless you’re rich.
Mr Chicken Nugget and considering your name and photo, it’s fitting considering how bad animal products are and how they cause and increase all the problems
Are you a vegan?
Hes talking about how its the most advanced but it’s expensive
Emiliano Rodriguez you mean it’s only for rich people... and it’s ridiculously expensive and not advanced at all...
Have you all met Americans here, who literally ran away from the US to Australia, to escape from medical bills. I met a dude who had a great high paying job. one day he moved job, before his new insurance kicks in, he had to do a dental surgery. The surgery wasn't covered -> suddenly he's on the whole for like $400k.
My insurance deductible is $5,000. That means I have to pay $5k in order for my insurance to actually do what's its supposed to do.
In order for me to get insurance id have to pay $300 a month plus on top of a $6000 deductible. I make less than 25k a year. Not enough to pay for insurance but too much to get govt healthcare. So I pray every day that I dont have an issue
My sister once paid $3K for an ambulance ride she didn’t need or want and paid another $8K for the hospital visit that lasted 4 hours.
Is this the reason why I keep seeing people from USA in the hospital where my dad works (I am from India)?
Other countries: patient gets covid, some have no bill, others have a small bill.
The U.S: A man is charged with $1,000,000 as their hospital bill.
Honestly I’ve seen some people get charged wayyy more.
" Crikey! That's a bit of a RORT!"
After a checkup, for some reason my doctor told me I needed another blood test at a separate facility...even they had blood tests at that office and had already took 2 vials of my blood at that appointment. At that separate hospital I had to pay $430 for a blood test and a 10 minute conversation on how that I was perfectly fine, I just needed to take more iron for the mild anemia I already knew I had. And that was the price was with "good" insurance.
That's a weeks wage for some people where I live!
That's crazy! That costs NOTHING here.
I was bit by a brown recluse spider didn’t have health insurance at the time went in they lanced it and put a band aid on it. They charged me 300$ for the band aid 😂
Ouch, a brown recluse?
$300? What for?
Nurse : Band-aid.. oh and here's another $250 for the oxygen you've been inhaling, plus another $150 for the sake of charging our customer-- I mean patient.
Ask them about the cost of skin to skin contact with a newborn baby
Imagine if Breaking Bad was set in the UK.
Episode 1: diagnosed with cancer.
Epsiode 2: treated for free and cured.
*roll credits*
I went to the ER, got a IV and some anti acids- $9,000 in debt because health insurance ran out day before👏🏼👏🏼 18 and was there for 2 hrs btw- America😁😁😁
I had an asthma attack when I was 11 and my parents were charged $2K for three breathing treatments . That was literally just at an urgent care and AFTER the insurance helped us. 😁😁
@@romancorey6796 “This is America” lol
Interesting that Aussies are pretty aware of how messed up the US healthcare system is. I wish this video emphasised more that Australians actually pay nothing for things like hospital stays. From the comments, a lot of people seem to be missing that important fact.
I mean with the price differentials it might as well be $0 that they pay to an American. Asthmatics without insurance pay $300 a month for the ability to breath in America vs $50. $50 isn't nothing but it sure seems like it since that level of affordability is so out of reach.
Also I was under the impression that these costs were only for people that were in Australia and didn't have the national insurance.
The strangest thing is that so many people think that the Americans have the best healthcare when they die younger, have higher infant and maternal mortality rates and worse outcomes than every other developed country, they pay between 50% and 100% more than everyone else and are ranked by the WHO as the 37th best system, below every Western European country, Australia, Japan, Canada and even below Colombia, Morocco, Chile and Dominica.
1. In India inhaler cost from 2$ to 6$
2. A day in hospital costs average 134 $.
3. Child birth C-sec in decent hospital with total expances is less then 1000 $.
4. If you get into accident and taken to government hospital it will cost you nothing.
I freaking love everyone of them their vibe...especially rhe one in hat n glasses
Can you believe that we pay 5aud to see a doctor and get a prescription inSouth korea?
longing for your new videos ,mate
U.S. have the best private health industry, it is not health care system. There is no care in their system.
When my daughters were born about ten years ago, our bill for three days (here in the USA) was about $12,000, but insurance picked up all but about 800 of it, so it's not too bad if you have insurance.
WHAT I FOUND ONLINE??? 🤣🤣🤣 Great investigative reporting! Ridiculous...!!!
But, thats where most people get their information
I live in the US. We have 9 kids. We do not have insurance. We have paid out of pocket for each. It usually has been about $30,000 all in by the end of it if all natural and no unforeseens and only staying 1 night. 😒
You had nine children damn I didn't think woman had that many children outside the third world
While we have relatively good health care and to some degree healthcare cost it is approaching that of the US and with the LNP they wanting make it the same as the US.
Unfortunately, judging by your comment - where we do well in healthcare, we fail in education.
I had one surgery in my life and I stayed in the hospital for a week and it cost me 10€
Love the audio ''listening' icon you placed on the copper that walked past at 4:57
Wait it's $1000 a day for an Aussie hospital , r u sure it's not a private hospital? Cos I'm sure public hospitals are free minus the parking
It's free on Medicare.
Hospital visits in Australia cost $0 if you go to a public hospital. It can cost 3k to 6k AUD in private hospitals and if you have private insurance, your out of pocket cost is about $300 - $500
They don’t have the best medical care in the world, most of Europe, Japan, Australia, are all much higher rated by both the WHO and the Commonwealth Fund, Americans die younger and have much higher infant and mortality rates, they also have a much higher incidence of medical errors.
An American organization called the Commonwealth Fund publishes a report comparing health care in 11 different wealthy countries. The USA consistently ranks last.
The Report
Issue: The United States health care system spends far more than other high-income countries, yet has previously documented gaps in the quality of care.
Goal: This report compares health care system performance in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
Methods: Seventy-two indicators were selected in five domains: Care Process, Access, Administrative Efficiency, Equity, and Health Care Outcomes. Data sources included Commonwealth Fund international surveys of patients and physicians and selected measures from OECD, WHO, and the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies. We calculated performance scores for each domain, as well as an overall score for each country.
Key findings: The U.S. ranked last on performance overall, and ranked last or near last on the Access, Administrative Efficiency, Equity, and Health Care Outcomes domains. The top-ranked countries overall were the U.K., Australia, and the Netherlands. Based on a broad range of indicators, the U.S. health system is an outlier, spending far more but falling short of the performance achieved by other high-income countries. The results suggest the U.S. health care system should look at other countries’ approaches if it wants to achieve an affordable high-performing health care system that serves all Americans.
Read the full report.
www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2017/jul/mirror-mirror-2017-international-comparison-reflects-flaws-and
That's why I try to avoid going to the emergency room and the hospital at all costs
A day in public hospital in Australia is free. My Mum had a stroke with no medical insurance. A brand new public university hospital for 4 months with scans galore and a private room - cost $0. The ambulance even transported her to the nursing home free.
I was gonna say something about the chick that said we put too much money into our army, but I'm not even gonna touch it.
PSlayer well there’s nothing to say other than she’s right, end of story.
@@Cassxowary perhaps consider the facts that the US protects many countries that would not be able to defend from larger countries just up and taking them, we also supply NATO with much of it's equipment such as aircraft and ground vehicles. Maybe then you can see why the US puts so much money into the military. I think it should get even more, I hear soldiers do not get alot of pay. I do however think that the US medical system could go through some sort of reform to help more people, but I don't know how that would work as I'm not an expert in that area.
@@pslayer5802 @PSlayer the US is the cause of all the wars in the world. you still believe in the BS that your army is protecting you? you still believe that? man you are so brainwashed its unbelievable. your army is the biggest terrorist organization in the world. literally all the wars in the middle east have been created by YOUR government. why? well zionists who control your government want them to do so. then your government also meddles in other countries affairs. installing a CIA puppet as president. at least they try. with every coupe they tried to do they actually failed at it. they spend over 7 trillion dollars alone on the wars in the middle east. and for what? just to follow the demands of the zionists in israel. you want to know how much americans you can help with 7 trillion dollars? ALOT. but nope your country decides to bomb the living sh*t about innocent people. seriously learn some facts. you are actually believing in the lies that they have actually pushed down your throat. you are a typical brainwashed american. and nato is a nother thing. NATO is a big american puppet. controlled by the zionists as well. you really have no clue about literally anything.
If you have an emergency - call the fire department for immediate help, and then call an Uber for transport to the hospital.
Mri in private in india $100 max for any kind of mri scan
Antivenom is free in indi
Could someone explain how someone wouldn’t have Medicare in Australia? Because they keep saying “if you have no insurance or Medicare” but I thought their system was like the British one in which private insurance is only optional and the state will provide all care otherwise. Regardless... the US costs are ridiculous. For an inhaler here it’s about £9.50
Interesting. Here in Italy the prices for private healthcare are pretty much the same as Australia's.
@NotRllyJoey not my first language, i'm better at talking than writing, you know what I meant 🙄
@NotRllyJoey I'm sorry, I got a 7.5 Ielts but I'm still not following you... I said they are the same? Can you explain where I went wrong here? I'm losing my mind 😂
@NotRllyJoey Ok, I'm sorry I ruined your joke 😂 Sometimes when I don't understand something I get frustrated
4:03 they charge you to get bitten by a snake? I've never heard of that.
Treatment for snake bite, now that could be expensive.
And this is why you need to make 100 to 150k a year in the US, trying to save most of it.
I really like this hat 0:02 anyone happens to know which brand? Thanks in advance
The healthy industry is a place of business, as i was told in EPWORTH!
I see a lot of people in the comments sharing their stories, so I guess I’ll share mine. Thankfully mine has a fairly happy ending. When I was still in my mother’s womb (being horrible to her poor organs), I was diagnosed with a congenital heart disorder. I won’t say the specific disorder (due to the risk of giving out identifiable information), but ket’s just say it wasn’t one of the easier ones to treat. My parents were ready to make sure I was able to have the best possible life and make sure I made it. My condition required surgeries to treat and they were gonna be fairly pricy. Thankfully, my parents had insurance. When I was born, I was taken off to be prepped for surgery. I ended up needing 3 open heart surgeries. I couldn’t figure out the actual amount of all my hospitals bills (or at least, the closest I could figure out without actually seeing them) but I’m pretty sure my parents said that they cost about $1,000,000 at the end of my journey (that’s probably including the therapies). Insurance, however, didn’t want to pay all this money. So they tried to weasel out in every way they could think of. My mom, however, was not having this. My parents did not have that amount of money. So, she started screaming at them on the phone, basically saying if they didn’t pay up, she’d take legal action. In the end, she scared them so much, and they were so worried about having a lawsuit or something happen, that they paid what they were supposed to all along. Pretty sure she had to do something similar for my brother (he’s intellectually disabled, autistic , and he has a seizure disorder.) If your wondering why my mom was almost always the one dealing with this, it’s because my dad had to work a lot, since he had the higher paying job. Oh, did I mention she had to do this all while dealing with her own chronic issues? We later found out that we have a genetic disorder that makes us predisposed to the types of conditions we have. We’re so lucky insurance provided in the end because if they hadn’t we probably would’ve gone into debt and and possibly gone bankrupt. My parents decided not to have any more biological kids, out of concern that if they had another, that child might have even worse conditions or might not even make it out alive. Basically, insurance sucks.
I've paid about $15,000 over the last 10 years at tax time in medicare levies. On top of that I've paid about $25,000 into healthcare and I 'm on a lower paying cover. I go for a check up once a year and the most I've had done is a few x-rays so no, it's not free in Australia, it's like the GST, just because it's not explicitly written on the product doesn't mean you're not paying for it. If I happen to have to go to hospital for a few nights then I better not get a bill, I've already paid for it.
LOL. "S**t = Australian Idol".
Btw US did not have the best health care in the world. And inhaler in Singapore Fluticasone cost SGD$34 and Saibutamol cost SGD$5 each before subsidy. After sub cost $5.50 and $1.25 respectively. Come to Singapore if you have chance.
Me paying $300 a month to breath like a sucker
"damn that's a bit of a raught!"
@5:49 - she's not going to go to the US anyway. I wish I had that option.
Being born 2 months early cost over 45,000 for no reason
Mate inhalers cost like 10 bucks now they went DOWN in price.
A few years back $6.95
I shudder to think
This video is so misleading . Medicare, which we pay for through our income tax system covers most health service, including hospital in Australia, even for elective surgery if you are prepared to wait. It definitely covers childbirth. You would only pay if you don't hold a Medicare card, or if you choose to go private, ( which is in fact usually covered by private health cover if you have it anyway). Interesting he didn't mention the other amazing thing we have in Australia, transport accident cover, which means if we are in an accident involving any form of road, tram or rail transport (whether as a pedestrian, a cyclist, a driver or a passenger) all our medical expenses, immediate and ongoing are covered and again we pay for this through car insurance and tax. We also all are pote ted by WorkSafe as well. If we have an accident at work, all ongoing meducal expenses are covered. Again this is part of our incomr tax. We really forget how lucky we are here, with our world leading medical research and exceptional standard of healthcare. There are only a few other countries are protected as much and where lives appear to a really matter.
They think it was cheap before and trump came into office and made everything expensive. Totally not true. The US government spent 1.2 trillion on healthcare in 2019.
Old mate was so excited to tell us he does parkour. No one cares
From a European's point of view Australia has an expensive health care system! So you can imagine what we think about the USA's
You pay nothing in australia public health sector for best evidence medical care. You can have chemo costing $ 10,000+ per cycle ongoing and have no out of pocket expenses. How lucky are we?...
@@le515 Of course you pay pay it. It comes out of your taxes some way or another. But what have they based the prices in the clip?
@@rtsharlotte private
@@rtsharlotte Private hospital fee if you want your chemo to start tomorrow rather than waiting a week to get it done publicly for example.(For things like hip replacements it can mean the difference between next week and in six months). Plus you get a nice room, a chef cooked meal and fresh flowers by your chair. The doctors and nurses are no better than in public. And yes we all pay our taxes gladly for a first class public system.
@@le515 A simple teeth cleaning service cost me $120 in 2010! Australia's health care is not cheap!
Fortunately, where I live there are no venomous snakes. No snakes at all, in fact. So no $40,000 charge for me.
Nuclear medicine costs $1000 here in Australia.
The problem with these videos, is that they never mention the cost of malpractice insurance which drives the cost up.
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but the bill is so much worse!
5:55 EXACTLY We Already have the best army by over billions of dollars. Giving a couple billion to healthcare would be fantastic. ( I don’t know how economically of its good or not to do that buuut)
We spent $730 billion on the military in 2019. We spend more money on the military than the next top 11 wealthiest nation's in the world including China, India, Russia, United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, Germany, France, Japan, South Korea, Italy, and Australia COMBINED. They spend a couple billion less than we do. And people still defend this shit? Cut the military and give us education and Healthcare. But the people in power know there's more money in war profiteering than caring for us commoners
Don’t forget the Aust Govt pays over AU$100 BILLION a year for health. This money comes from Aust tax payers so that’s about AU$8000 per tax payer per year. Given many tax payers also receive other federal benefits such as family payments etc. the burden actually falls to the fewer, net tax payers, so really comes at over AU$10,000 per net tax payer. If you were to remove private health funds from the Aust market than the govt contribution, and therefore tax take to fund it, would increase even further. While it’s fantastic we have access to social medicine, we need to be conscious of the cost of providing it. It ain’t free as some think.
Australia spends about half on a per capita basis than what the US does on healthcare
That's an incredible over-simplification. Our tax rates are MUCH lower than the US as are our taxable income thresholds. It practically is free with how little tax we pay for it.
In Germany it is even better. We have health insurance where there is like basic stuff. MRI s Don t cost anything you Dont even have to worry to call the ambulance. You can get better treatment if you pay extra.
Same in Australia. We have "basic" healthcare (Medicare, everything is free, public service). And "luxury" healthcare (Private providers/insurance, private hospitals/room in hospitals etc.).
Inhaler in India is 3 to 7 dollars and the best one.
Note to self, if i ever go to America, i need to have insurance.
Insurance doesn't do shit in the US, as they charge you paying thousands of dollars, it's not accepted in every hospital and they won't cover everything. You still have to pay alot of money and insurance won't help you.
It still costs in USA loads
Their citizen sounds like slaved by companies, companies which pretend to be country huh?
You mean the US. Canada it’s free (:
Gday mate they literally are.
That's why it's better to call an Uber than an ambulance
i like the bearded guy with the hat
All of these costs in Australia are completely free.. $0 friking dollars.
And the medicare taxquite cheap.. in average like $850 USD per year for a person with average income.
For people who earn below $15k USD, they dont even have to pay any medicare taxes.
Now, talk about healthcare for all.
Aussies are the best.
They think it was cheap before and trump came into office and made everything expensive. Totally not true. The US government spent 1.2 trillion on healthcare in 2019.
6:05 someone better break it to him that we dont
We have Goff Whitlam and the Labour Party to thank for the health system ..... the LNP has pulled it back a bit since
Wow I just worked out that if I lived in America my last hospital visit would’ve cost me $210,000! That’s not including everything on top like X-rays, morphine, surgery.
In the uk I paid nothing
They think it was cheap before and trump came into office and made everything expensive. Totally not true. The US government spent 1.2 trillion on healthcare in 2019.