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I'm British and we LOVE the NHS
Some of you do.
I'd say we love that we have it as a safety net but I'd stop short of loving it. It can all get a bit cultish but it always needs improving. Saying this on a personal level ive always found it efficient. My sister found a lump and got a doctors appointment in an hour and hospital for scans the next day, cant get much quicker than that(was nothing btw) but there is no doubt that a lot of money is wasted. There is always a private system if people dont like the public one...
@@dib000yes we do
The NHS is crumbling faster than Apple crumble
@OtagesBringthemhome_NOW because of underfunding...but the principle is what I love....I've worked in the NHS, as soon as you iinstall private profit as a motive, standards decrease.
I live in the UK, I don't drive to work because I have the option to get the train. Now the total drive to work is around 1hr 20mins, the train to work is more or less the same. The main point is I've got the option to go to work by train. The main benefits being I can just sit there, watch a film, your reactions, have a cup of tea from the trolley etc etc. Having the choice, it's great. Carry on your reactions. Cheers
Tell me you are Hungarian without saying you are Hungarian... That video is far off reality here in Europe. Anyway, love Americans trying to get some view from Europe reality ❤
I think the guy is from Bulgaria...but yes, with a very "Hungarian" mindset ;)
@@nth_to_see_here No, he is a hungarian for sure.
@@nth_to_see_here He is from Serbia.
I just checked his channel. He is Romanian or at least he lives in Romania (although his name is János).
think he's from Erdély :D
This video is pretty much nonsense. None of this applies to the UK or the rest of western Europe for sure.
Not mentioning European countries aiming to join EU will have to reach the point where their transportation systems is similar to the west. With just the aim of low pollution alone.
In Norway you pay up to 330 USD - for necessary medication (prescriptions), doctor, - after that you get a free card for the rest of the year. Necessary medication for example for diabetes, heart conditions etc - the prices are regulated and you do not pay more than 50 USD within a certain time. Hospital is free - also the medication you need there.
The NHS is brilliant, I find when we complain about wait times etc it's a complaint against our own standards which is still better than the the majority of the world
NHS Scottland is brilliant. The England one is a slow car crash.
Much of what this guys says may apply to Eastern Europe, I don't know that much about what's going on there, but relating to Western Europe, he says a lot of BS.
Eastern Europe is still Europe. So he is not wrong.
pretty much anything he said about Poland in his vids was various kind of incorrect - from misrepresented to outright false
He literally specified every example in the video mentioning European countries. The only BS said here are from people who can't focus on a video lasting more than 1 minute.
@@damyr It can be BS even if he mentions the countries.
@@damyrEven if he specifies every example his video is misleading. If I knew nothing about Europe, I would get a very biased picture of it from this video.
Well, it takes a bit (some days to some weeks, depends on area and field of medicine) to get a „real“ normal in advance booked appointment (like for the 6month check up at your gyn, or normal checkup at the dentist, etc.) but if you go because you‘re in pain they are not allowed to turn you away, you just might have to wait a little while that day but you will be seen. And if it is urgent there are Hospitals you can go to and you will be seen at the same day, no additional costs. (From German Perspective)
Americans already pay more taxes for healthcare then EU does.
US federal government spent nearly $1.5 trillion on health care in 2022. In addition, income tax expenditures for health care totalled $300 billion, making it altogether $5400 per capita.
Same year, EU social protection sickness and healthcare expenditure, stood at $2911 per capita (8.1% of EU's GDP or €1.3 trillion )
Dunno what is considered a long waiting time for surgery. In Germany, if its nothing super urgent, you may wait 2-3 months but if it is, you may wait 1-2 weeks (and if its life threatening you get it immidiatly ofcs). Is that long? Rly not that dramatic imo.
That tax map shows the highest tax rate. For the Netherlands 49.5% is only on income above 75,000 euros. Below that it is 36.9%. In addition there are lots and lots of deductions and we have a system of subsidies for lower incomes. This may not be true for all of Europe, but we definitely do have a progressive tax system.
In Germany if you have private health insurance you do not pay tax fee for universal healthcare. Healthcare is different from country to country in europe.
Haha, eastern European making video about Europe is like Mexican making video about America.
Mexico is in America... the continent where you also find USA, Canada, Brazil, etc. Kind of like Eastern Europe is a part of Europe.
@@Sungamton Uhuh, and his experiences are not about Europe, but about the countries he's lived in. Literally everything he said was wrong about the Netherlands for example.
@@Sungamton Do you think people from the west coast of Canada know how Quebec's social security, health care and education systems work, yet they're all part of the same country. And you'd think the Portuguese would be familiar with Luxembourg's culture, means of transport, healthcare and education system.
You can always make funny videos about serious subjects, but they're still jokes and nothing else.
Now eastern Europeans aren't considered Europeans anymore?Or perhaps since the east isn't as rich as the west they can't make content about the continent where they live?
@@rekhytdemon6884Being European, or American, or earthling, doesn't turn idiocy into truth.
A Nepalese can talk about Japanese culture and life if he wants to (both are Asians anyway). We'd applaud him if what he says is true and good, or laugh at him if he's talking crap.
If you really want to make “content”; work on it, inform yourself, do research, check the facts, put in some effort. After that, we could call it “content”.
hes eastern european as far as im aware they dont have the best healthcare funding so i question the validity of his argument. i really dont get his point on taxes i know how my coutnry does taxes using brackets perhaps his country doesnt do taxes well.
11:29 No, it's not. The US like most European countries are members of the OECD - an international organization that promotes liberal democracy & free market capitalism. Higher taxes & more generous welfare systems do not equal socialism. Furthermore, the origin of the welfare systems lay in the German Empire in the 1880s & the German conservative party.
I live in Poland. I commute 76 km to work by public transport every day (1 hour and 20 minutes, 20 minutes on foot, 44 minutes by train, 10 minutes by tram, 6 minutes waiting for a transfer). During rush hour I have a train every 25 minutes, a tram every 3 minutes. A monthly ticket for the train and all public transport in Poznań (a city with a population of 540,000) costs me the same price as the petrol I would burn commuting to work for 10 days.
I pay 32% in income tax and that includes healthcare fees. if it is not a serious illness, you may have to wait, but if it is urgent, you will come in immediately, exceptions may be if you need a transplant, it may take time to find a donor. I don't know what counts as emergency in the US, they will surely take you in straight away even for the smallest ailment, why?. they make money from it.
Whoever made this video here must be drunk! Those in the USA pay almost as much tax as many countries in Europe. The richest people in Norway pay less tax than the richest people in the USA.🤣🤣🤣
The richest people in Norway pay about as much as in California which is a state with one of the highest taxes, but then they pay 15% on food, 25% on everything else they spend, 50-150% on cars that are not EVs, tolls to use the road, estate tax and more, so no rich Norwegians don't pay less than rich Americans
Hello ! I'm French and I lived most of my live in the countryside (different regions of France), so, with 0 train, bus or anything like that. Car was just the only option.
Public transport works very well in the big cities (where the tourists come), but as soon as you move away a little to buy a house or just to have an affordable rent, the car quickly becomes indispensable.
Even in the suburbs of Paris, which have access to trains, it's hard to do without a car. To get from city A to city B, with a train, you often have to do A to Paris and Paris to B.
There was lot of things off... One thing is what you get for you (high)taxes, how to h*** health care in USA can cost twice than in Finland per capita and it is not even free? Ill pay now 9,5% tax from my income, i hapily pay that and get free education, health care etc.
Business taxes are low and internationally competitve in the EU and the Nordic countries....so what on Earth is he talking about when it comes to business taxes??? (the are a huge amount of different taxes,..huh!!)
You cannot make a video about all of Europe like this. Every country should be mentioned separately. This guy in the video obviously not been to The Netherlands where things are different. As said every country is different. There is no such thing as all of Europe being the same.
(Sweden)
The Public transport system varies a lot, in large cities the busses/trams/subway comes so often that they often stack up behind each other, and the bus where noone is getting off overtakes the first one when passing a bus stop.
In the countryside, there may only be two or three busses a day, and nothing at night.
Most important is that Europe is very, very different, depending on which country, or part of the country you're in.
Like, in Germany you often cannot pay with your card while in Sweden you often cannot pay with cash. And that's countries very close to each other.
I feel like things like drinking and smoking varies a lot too, Sweden banned smoking in Pubs around 2000 while I'm pretty sure other countries still allows it.
This guy is full of BS,..maybe 89% of it....
This is a east European view on Europe as a whole.
It should be mentioned that he is a Serbian living in Romania. Him talking about Western Europe is a bit like if someone who moved from Mississippi to Alabama makes some grand statements about New England.
Compulsory health insurance in Poland is 9% of monthly salary. For children up to 18 years (26 years if they are students) you do not pay anything, you just register them. If your spouse does not work you do not pay extra for him, you just register him. And all treatments, visits and tests are fully paid for.
I´m a 55y-old austrian and i never ever heard of (or know) anyone who has waited for an operation or didn´t get an appointment at a doctor when needed. But, that´s just me.
In Sydney I go to a walk-in clinic. The most I’ve ever waited (without appointment) was two hours. I usually see the same doctor but they offer ‘first available’ which can be quicker and also consultations by phone. That’s good if you just want a renewed prescription.
I take pills for high blood pressure and a months worth is $6. Although it might have gone up to $7, it’s been $6 for years.
Yes, “free” healthcare isn’t really free but do you ever object to paying for someone else’s drinks in a restaurant with “free” refills? They’re not really free either. You ARE paying for refills for yourself and others. Indirectly.
Here’s the thing: Sydney is really clean, almost no litter or spilled garbage. How? Because WE do it, not the government, we the citizens do it. First, we don’t litter. Second, there are clubs, organisations and individuals who regularly get together to clean up a beach or a park or somewhere in their area.
The point is, the citizens have to do it.
Wanna change the world? Stop buying cheap goods made in China. Pay a little more for American goods. Bang! Instant change in the balance of trade. No tariffs needed.
It seems peculiar to us that Americans expect their governments to do so much while hampering what the government can do.
The US is just as much socialist as European countries. How does US Postal work? Do car owners pay the cost of roads?
"A political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole."
The public pays for roads, but the means of production are in private hands. Roads are built by companies. That applies to Europe and the US.
@@jbird4478 Exactly my point.
yeah, mostly far right hungarian biased bs - wouldnt be suprised if janoz visits his haircutter twice a month
He is Serbian.
We don't have socialism in Europe. It's a free market economy with social programmes. That is something completely different. As a Pole, I remember when every business was owned by the state (except for very small businesses like greengrocers, flower shops and small shops and small services). The centrally planned economy was a disaster, it was very inefficient.
Healthcare times depends alot on how urgent it is needed. I broke my collarbone and waited three days for my surgery, not really a big deal. And I paid about 15$ for the inital diagnosis, but the cap in Norway for about everything healthcare related including medicine for a year is about 300$
Europe is certainly more progressive than the US, but so is 80+% of the world. This is because the US is backwards to put it mildly, your laws are really lacking when it comes to a bunch of stuff including labor, education, healthcare etc.
Americans pay more than Europeans on average if you factor in everything our taxes pay for..
Healthcare in Getmany: I had an accident and I had to have 3 operations. The first within days I stayed in the hospital, I paid zero and I got free gymnastics for after op. Perfect probably no but be more thankful for what we have.
My experience from living in Warsaw, Poland:
- You can definitely make it without owning a car and using public transport, but it may cost you time, depending on where you want to go. For example: when I worked in the office my commute by car was 40-60 minutes, while by public transport it would easily be twice that, but it was reversed for my previous job.
If you wanted to get around with single use tickets it would cost a lot in the long run, but you can also get a very reasonably priced long-term ticket and just ride whatever you want within city limits and also some lines outside of it.
- The public health system is not a miracle, but it works. Yes, you wait in line and we pay higher taxes, but we still pay way less than Americans do for for their insurance, deductibles don't exist and you won't be denied coverage by some shithead in a suit.
- Food regularions mean that you can eat healthy without paying through the nose for it. If someone chooses McDonalds over buying and preparing groceries it's their choice.
Sorry, but this is far right B.S.
NOONE think Europe with or without the EU is a "single country" (is fella who made this piece dumb?) ...that is the whole point with the stenght of Europe...we got loads of different cultures, languages and so and so forth which is what Europeans and the EU are trying to elevate always....that said, some lawas and rules must be in place for cooperation and e.g. trade etc.....gosh!
So much BS in that vid I had to turn it off haha
Same
i dont understand, what was bs
That must be the worst video i have ever seen 😮😮😮
wdym it was pretty good
Yeah what he's trying to say is dont go to corrupted Hungary.
If I compare to Sweden: In America you pay lower taxes, but you pay insurances and all sorts of fees instead. And if you get sick (particularly) you will end up paying more. You just call it something different. But for you, the money goes back to the companies, while taxes goes back to the people.
I pay 10$ a month for an insurance that covers everything (basically).
Healthcare has a payment ladder: hospital/doctor/shrink/physical rehab visits are capped at roughly at 100-200$ per year: first a doctor visit costs 30$, then it will be cheaper and cheaper, and if it exceeds the cap of roughly 100-200$ it will be free for the rest of the year.
Same thing goes for medicine.
For example:
I got sick with blod clots in my legs and lungs and got hospitlized. I hadnt reached the cap and had to pay for the visit.
I saw the local doctor, I got a taxi ride to the hospital (which is called sick-travel and only costs 10$ no matter the distance).
I had doctors doing rounds for two days on me, I took more tests then I could count, I got breakfast and lunch and coffee etc to my bed, I got some scan-thing on my leg to discover the blod clots, and I got an x-ray on my lungs. I took a taxi home. I got other symptoms and visited the emergency again, and got diagnosed with some kind of fever. Took a taxi home. I thought my pulse was off the roof, so I called an ambulance (free), but they did some tests on me in my home and decided I was ok (turns out I was just stoned and almost had a panic attack and called the ambulance for nothing). I got several re-visists to my local doctor to check up on me, I had a rehab trainer coming home to me giving me exercises so I would get back in shape.
Total cost for everything: 80$
Only thing I didnt include was the medicine. The blood thining medz are expensive though and costed 170$ - but that means on the other hand that all of my prescripted meds are free for the rest of the year.
What (many) Americans fail to understand is: being social is not the same as being socialist.
I'm (mostly) conservative, consider myself right-wing, but would never want to change our social health care system (other then imrpoving it) or change our social security system or to take away someone's right to have an abortion (with due observance of what the current law provides for in this respect). I would e.g. even plea for making traffic fines income-related.
What seems to be a recurring point in every country is that the richest you are, the less taxes you pay.
And it's a big problem which is not enough taken care of.
The healthcare thing is very different all over Europe, but what he says about long waiting times is nonsense. It depends on the doctor/hospital/clinic/field of expertise of course, but the only time I had to wait more than 2 months was an adhd diagnosis. I had to wait 6 months for that. And that was mainly because I had checked the box for the nearest office, if I had travelled more than an hour I would have waited 2 months.
Every normal appointment I've ever had to make for my regular GP was max 2 days after I called. More specialised things, like removing moles, is done in batches, usually once a week or once every other week, so I had to wait a few days for things like that. More specialised care like seeing a gynecologist or making an appointment for surgery took a bit longer, but still it has always been a matter of a few weeks, not months.
Taxes is also nonsense. There are very definitely tax brackets with higher levels at higher incomes etc. The way it's organised depends on country obviously, but he says it like there are no different tax brackets at all.
Taxes are simpler in the sense that it's easy to fill out, because I only have to enter the equivalent to a social security number, and the tax office has filled out everything it needs via my employer.
If you have your own company (which I also do) you typically just send everything to an accountant, but I've done it myself as well, and it's really not that complicated to fill out yourself, you do need to know what kind of things you can deduct, but that is still just a matter of keeping track of purchases and counting them up. But for most people it's really just logging in, checking if the income the tax office entered for you is correct by holding your yearly income next to it (which your employer is legally required to send you) and then click agree or not. This is the case for many countries.
Car traffic, also wrong. Sure, it's busy sometimes, but even in extremely busy moments, with a lot of road work and obstructions and even completely closed roads I was still able to get from one end of the city to the other in time. Cars are used, but you can't go every route you like. The reason the closed road was so annoying is that it's a main road. You can't just go through a smaller road next to it, because that road will divert you back to the main road, or end in dead ends for cars that cyclists, pedestrians and sometimes buses (in which case emergency vehicles too) can pass through. So there aren't really any places you can take a short cut or diversion.
Public transport is busy in peak times, but even when I took the bus and train daily I never had much trouble getting where I needed to be on time. Was the bus too full sometimes? Yes, in which case I had to wait a whopping 2 minutes for the next one. Or 10 minutes if it was outside peak hours or less popular lines. Was the train busy sometimes? Yes, but never so full that people had to stay behind.
Is Europe progressive? Not as a whole I guess. Especially Eastern Europe and the very religious countries/regions are not LGBTQ+ friendly, some are actively hostile. I mean, I live in the Netherlands which legalised same sex marriage as the first country. Is there still discrimination based on sex, gender, sexuality, skin colour, birth place, culture, religion, etc? Yes. It's not a Utopia.
When he says socialism he means something very different than Bernie Sanders means. And many policies that Denmark has (or many other European countries) are considered extremely socialist in the US. A majority of Americans are in favour of a lot of "socialist" policies when they are explained, so long as you don't use the word socialism. Socialism as a political movement is different from individual policies, and not all those policies are based on political views that align with socialism.
BS when it comes to Northenr Europe when it comes to smoke and drink.....basically none of the younger and middle age population, e.g. in Sweden smoke and less than average when it comes to drinking...
Was going to make a coment on that but you started on it so i follow up. There is 5% of the Swedish population that smoke on a daily bases. That is not alot. I feel over all this guy are not really on spot with most of the things that he talks about. It is not all wrong but most of it is not right either and also depends on what country you live in, in Europe.
Not surprising, considering that alcohol in Sweden costs a small fortune. It is true overall though. In fact, Europeans don't just drink more than Americans. Europeans drink by far the most worldwide. Out of the top 25 countries by alcohol consumption, 22 are in Europe.
@@jbird4478 Well Europe is not a country and this video was about the Nordic countries and why the video is more of a hit and miss. All though not meaning that the nordic countries do not drink anything they certainly do, just the way it is described is a bit out of touch.
Biased BS.
Well, healthcare systems differs country to country even within EU (EU is part of Europe). Sometimes you have to wait, sometimes you can pay more for better care or private. ONE thing AMERICANS DONT GET is that government has to pay to med corporations so that is huge hole for corruption, ineffeciency and overpayments. Big problem, cost of health system is discussed every elections as one of the topics ...
It's just a matter of slightly higher percentages... that's all it's down to... a simple matter of single digit percentages.
First of, it depends how or why you compare specific things. Public Transit in Europe is better, yes, but why ?? Is it because of cost ?? I would say no. But the infrastructure is better in regard to public transport. 1 example of this is, we don't need a 40 minute car ride to get to a trainstation, and the railroad network crosses the entire continent. Walkable/bikeable cities ?? Yes, but this has to do with the fact that ZONING is important, no matter where you are in Europe, shopping and living are not divided by housing laws, thus shops are closer to where one lives, making it easier to walk, if we talk about distance. Healthcare, taxes pay a lot, that does not take away queues and waitinglists.
And when talking about taxes, not taking into account how taxation works, it is also in part at least seeing how your tax is being used. One clear example here is, potholes and roads. Most European countries have much more decent roads as the US. (See Most not all) Why, because tax money is used for the upkeep.
Just some examples of, the how and why compare certain things. Work life balance is often used as an argument, but that I think depends on the individual, what are your needs and wants in life ?? Does mandatory PTO, maternity / paternity leave etc are things you need or want for example.
People have cars but we dont use it all the time ;and it depends where you live , i didnt use a car in my everyday life for 20 year but if i want to make a party with friend or eating near a river or going somewhere i still can with a car .
or someone pick me up because i sold my last one 15 years ago ^^
About lgbtq+ in Europe. It really depends on where you are. I'm from Denmark and here the first same se marriage occured back in 1989. So in northern Europe we are way further than America.
Positive: Europe is not only Western Europe, but most Europe related content is from a Western European perspective and does not do all of Europe justice. So generally I appreciate content from a not so Western European perspective.
Negative: Europe is not only Hungary either, and this guy also seems to have a far right perspective on everything.
If you take this video as one facet of the huge diamond called Europe, it sure can help to get a better picture. But please keep in mind that most of this video does not really apply to all of Europe.
Europe is not one country; it’s similar to saying Asia or Africa. There are many different cultures and languages, even within individual countries, which are simply smaller on this continent.
15:30 - I life in the Netherlands and I use alot of medicines, but I never pay anything for it. So no, that is not universal.
When you see the video and how quickly he talks...you can already tell that it's a hodgepodge and the information is just plucked out of thin air...then you better look for a decent video that takes each country separately.
- car topic: true, european countries have bazillions of cars. but the rest of that topic is true as well. so nothing to discuss here
- the whole thing like "waiting for surgery" does not apply on mandatory surgery. if theres something that can wait, because you dont need immediate help your surgery could be pushed back a while due to hospital capacities etc.
- overweight topic: only facts too, nothing to debate here as well
For Norway watch this: "Rich&Equal" - Norwegian TV show "This Is Norway" s01e04 w/English subtitles
It might look like Americans pay less tax that’s because they have the most millionaires and billionaires on the planet and they definitely don’t pay their fair share of tax. I give this guy 71/2out of 10 for his opinions.
90% BS 👏 👏 you have to manage that first! (original video)
West europe : france ,spain ,italy ,germany , switzerland ... rich everything is very fine and best healthcare .
Eastern europe is poor in many country so of course not .
if you say europe its mixing rich country with poor can be missleading .
The UK is the exception to these points
You should listen to the ending song until the final, "hey hey why are you living in the USA" :))
The NHS is great , was treated recently , could not have been better.
Most of the things the guy in the video is describing may apply to Eastern Europe but for sure not the rest of Europe.
we don't pay that many taxes for health care in Europe, in US is more expensive to pay insurance and than to find out that some services are not even covered so with insurance you still pay from.pocket, and medicine is more expensive ,not sure what that guy it's talking, just talk facts not what you think without checking or experience. And US doesn't drink 😂, and they don't smoke as much ..nooo they just vape, drugs etc 😂😂
What a bunch of nonsences. Greetings from Central Europe
Why are most of the images from the traffic in Russia shown in this film, which is supposed to be about the whole of Europe? I know western Russia belongs to Europe, but still. This is just one man's view of Europe and not much of what he says matches reality.
This is a very narrow and hyperbolic view of Europe by a very specific social group. And I think this guy is from Bulgaria which also is one of the least developed countries in the EU so it might also add to the skewed view.
He is from Serbia, so even worse.
Absolute nonsense
he's exagerating all the downsides to make his point.he's wrong about the tax's . he's wtong about the nhs and all the other universal systems of healthcare.i've never heard any european even mention the health of americans and bmi is not an accurate measure of health.there are no socialist countries in europe most governments are social democratic. europe is on the whole more progressive but that changes the further east you go.
Everywhere needs fixing ,sometimes I feel we are holding progress up , if you hear someone criticise your system and you defend it rather than point out they are almost right and point out what is factually wrong , then those who should be fixing it say look it's not that bad .this is in the USA as well as the rest of the world , lgbtq half of America want them too get surgery too fix them Europe have a are you sure your that way maybe you haven't met the right person , it's still bigotry but not on the same scale as in here it's a personal opinion in the US I found it more political.
I love Nyíregyháza❤
He is not that wrong, but at the same I feel like he also has wrong picture of the US due to lack of knowledge similar to Americans being kinda wrong about Europe.
PS: Europe is still better than the US, but the US with all its money could be so much better than Europe and create what we cant, because even tho we are objectively rich compared to the rest of the world (even in poorer European countries) we are not rich enough to actually elevate our way of life to the level the US could with its resources.
Problem is 1% of US population owns 95% of the money in the country. And they couldn't care less about the remaining 99%.
According to the latest official statistics on the health care system in my country of Sweden, the government spends 10,5% of BNP just on health care alone. Despite this it's in a perpetual state of never having enough funding.
There's always a lack of nurses and doctors, there's never enough space for the amount of patients, there's a massive queue for most of the health care system (the longest waiting times in all of Europe and half a million people (~5% of the population) waiting for care in 2020, many of them for 1-2 years), modern technology is most often reserved for health care research and not general health care (general health care has to make due with what's just about good enough because it's publicly funded), etc. and so on.
Social democrasie. Its nothing to do with socialisme
This video is very wrong
i dunno if it is a good idea to let a person from the soviet block speaking about europe.
Sorry can't watch this nonsense, I'm off NOW
LONERS IS ALL YOU YOU TWO WILL EVER BE.
Im British we have a 2nd class health system
Due to serious bad management and underfunding
Virtually no mental health treatment
Its far from Great
Everything British is nowadays second class...Brexit is a symptom of that....
Nonsence.
Double nonsense
@@MrB-vj1vg ok
@@MrB-vj1vg 2 year waiting list for children experiencing mental health issues Service men and women living on the streets with PTSD massive shortages of Dentists GPs nurses ect ect ect Nonsense !😂😂😂
Nothing is free, half of your salary goes to health care for simulants who have doctor friends and are ill every friday and monday. Also, you still pay for a lot of things and doctors and dentists are not even available, you are waiting months for everything, so a lot of people pay health care (because they have to) and then they go to private clinic and pay again because state doctor will take them after 2 years or something. This system is completely broken. Some people even go to Poland to visit their dentists, it's ridiculous.
@Pidalin: As a German I can´t agree. True is: nothing is "free" in the meaning you have to pay "nothing at all". But in a case of any health problems you get treatment and medication without extra cost (depends on country and insurance options). In imergency cases you get almost immediate treatment. They don´t let you die. And because the costs are controlled we don´t have that crazy prizes. Dentist: We are quite spoiled. Many people expect luxury treatment. I mean when I think back to my youth ... men in my age (now) only had half of their teeth then. Still they did not die. Not saying I wish these times back .. but nowadays you may have all your teeth or replacements up to your death. Shiny porcelaine over gold ...
You don't know what you are talking about, really. Even private clinics have to obey laws in Europe. That's why in an European private clinic you will pay $100 for a procedure and in a US clinic you will pay $10.000 for the same procedure. Yeah, you pay twice if you choose private clinics in Europe, but still pay much less than in the US.
@@klaus2t703 I am Czech, so situation here may be different, but there are no doctors, no dentists, nobody wants to do that work, nobody studies it, nobody wants to have such crazy shifts and mandatory service in hospitals. Now they are thinking about forcing basic district doctors to have service in hospitals, which will make problem with personal doctors even worse. Some people don't have doctor for 10 years and can't find any doctor, so they go to emergency to hospital and then they wait for hours and have to listen angry nurses and doctors yelling at them that they are supposed to visit their doctor and don't bother them in hospital....that's the situation here. When you go to private clinic and pay, they will accept you immediatelly.
Some people are that desperate that they call an ambulance for absolute nonsenses because it's the easiest way how to get to the hospital, but it won't really help you because they do pacient filtering and they will throw you to the waiting room anyway if you are not dying. 😀
Politicians thought that Ukrainian doctors will save us, but after few years, it looks like it will not work because of language barrier and because of not recognizing their education, because we all know that ukrainian or russian university is like Czech or German high school. Nothing egainst them, but immigrants from the east won't solve the problem with missing doctors.
We have massive problem with simulants and other people who exploit system, we have to get rid of them somehow and there will be enough doctors. They tried it by making rule that first 3 days of sickness are not paid, that kind of solved that problem, but more left wing government later removed it again, which will happen always because of changing governments, so you can't solve this problem permanently.
And dentists.....even when you pay insurance for decades, you need to fix few teeth and you pay like 500 eur and braces are that expensive that you literally have to take them on mortage, it's ridiculous. Dentist care is not available for ordinary people anymore, that's why people go to Poland, so people are that desperate that they go to Turkey or something to have braces or new teeth. Even when you are old and you already need teeth replacement and you want something slightly better than classic removable teeth, you will pay like 5000 eur. I don't want to pay insurancy in such situation, it's robbery.
@@RaduRadonys I think it's more like market difference than laws. People in Europe wouldn't pay such money for healthcare.
What really bothers me that even when I pay insurancy (because nobody asked me, they steal it from my salary), I have to pay for almost everything, especially at dentist, you need some injection before they will start drilling your teeth? You will pay 25 eur for every single stab, it's ridiculous. And when you need braces....that's only for very rich people in these day. When I was kid, everyone had them, even poor kids, now you can't afford it even when you have higher than average salary, but you still have to pay insurancy.
Yes, ofcourse, when you are dying and they have to transport you to the hospital, that's covered, but when you need some pills later, you will pay for everything!!! Pensioners who need a lot of pills pay even like 200 eur monthly just for pills. This bussines with olderness is terrible.
And when you need to put pensioner to retirement home, it's literally more expensive than 5 star hotel, but that pensioner paid insurancy for whole life.
We earn like 1400 eur after tax here in Czechia and retirement home for one pensioner for month can cost even like 2000 eur, can you believe it?
I am not some leftist nor even commie, but this is really getting bad and we have to return to the correct way or we are getting back to 19th century.
If there is one thing you really can't consider Europe as a whole, it is healthcare. Systems vary wildly per country. Here in the Netherlands every clinic, doctor, or hospital is private. There is no public healthcare, and there is no public insurance. Everything is nonetheless practically free - except unfortunately the dentist. Some healthcare you have to pay yourself, but at most 350 euros per year.