I would change the health care system to a more EU system over our single payer. More people are in debt over healthcare than anything else I believe. I live in the USA. I replied before watching the video.

Socialized medicine is so great because everything is free! So naive. Socialized stuff costs more every time. When the people spend other people’s confiscated earnings on people who didn’t earn them, the choices are guaranteed to be less efficient and more wasteful compared to when people spend their own hard earned money. Refusing to acknowledge and accept this fact of human nature eventually leads to misery and poverty.

Left a comment and it was deleted so I unsubscribed to you! Alls I said was we spend more money on our military to keep the world safe more than the top ten countries combined! And that’s the reason why things are expensive! So delete my comment again.

Take your socialist butt back to Germany, please. Unsubbed.

Honestly, I agree with your opinions, and I'd definitely be on board with better public transportation (bullet trains, buses and light rails, etc), tighter gun restrictions (there were tighter restrictions in the Wild West than what we have now), nationalized healthcare, and free university. Taxes will be a little higher, but if everyone is paying their share, it wouldn't be a big issue. Life is better when we work together

Yes exactly. We don't hate America because we want to change stuff. It's in fact a sign that we care about it

Yup and even at that people watched for the gun thing ignoring that, like healthcare and walkable cities with public transit, the reason it was obvious is that the US is an embarrassment and laughing stock because of how ridiculous we are

As a 'FOREIGNER', you are in the PERFECT position to judge this country. Looking into the fish tank is a perspective shift that needs to be made.

Reminds me of what Jim Jefferies said on his comedy-style news show, with the following quotes being some good examples of this: “What could be more patriotic than questioning your government?” “America is literally a protest that became a country. The events that have shaped this nation’s history have always sprung from rebellion. Events like, the civil rights movement, women’s suffrage, gay rights…protesting is patriotism. And we seem to have forgotten that.” “For some reason, protesting racial injustice is considered unpatriotic, but stockpiling guns so you can shoot up a government gone mental, that makes you a patriot. Wrapping yourself in a flag that represents a time when half the country literally tried to leave America…that makes you a patriot. And when you have a President who lets this slide (white nationalists bitching about the removal of a Confederate statue), but won’t tolerate this (black athletes protesting police brutality towards others of their own ethnicity)…that just proves their point.”

The saddest parts of this video is the reluctance of America to change (I understand the history and cultural differences - they are excuses not reasons) and the objectionable attitudes when the failings of the systems hear are pointed out (yes, I have been told to leave the country - a Christian friend (yes, a fellow church member) emailed my circle of friends and the pastor telling them I should get out of the country). My sister retired to Australia where her family live - after ten years, the Australian government provided her with Medicare and gives her a pension. I retired to America at a similar age for the same reason - my wife and I pay $19000 per year for Medicare and we get no pension. Our savings are disappearing! This video left me close to tears and praying that my family would move back to Europe so my wife and I can enjoy retirement not just try to survive it.

Thank you for that information. I went to look that up after you clarified it… the actual quote was: “Our country-In her intercourse with foreign nations may she always be in the right, and always successful, right or wrong." In this context, Decatur's toast is not a call for undying, blind patriotic devotion to one's country as the expression is often used in modern political discourse. It is rather a prayer for guidance, wisdom, and temperance in foreign relations. This was spoken by Commodore Stephen Decatur after the war of 1812 in reference to fighting the Barbary Coast pirates. (hamptonroadsnavalmuseum.blogspot.com/2012/04/my-country-right-or-wrong-what-decatur.html) Honestly, I prefer your version.

A fellow persona 5 player? 😂

Nice, that Betterhelp worked for you Feli, but I have heard enough negative stuff about it that I have a bad feeling whenever someone promotes them…

The problem is and always has been who gets to define what is right when two people disagree? If I get to decide, I'm perfectly fine with this. 😀

and we would have presidents, not royalty.

She lives in Ohio, where any lawful individual can carry a concealed firearm. I've lived around the world as well, and even in a place like the Philippines, where people can buy and carry guns, people aren't being mowed down regularly. It's the crazy people pulling the triggers of the guns that's the problem!

It’s important to know the mindset. Some would argue that the mindset in Germany isn’t even German anymore. It is very leftist and godless, I will say that.

​@@Storytime2023xwhich is good

​@@Storytime2023xI mean I'm pretty happy that the German mindset changed after 1945, if that's what you call "not German anymore" 👀

This is spot on.

And that's due to the popularity of varmint hunting?

@@BrandonLeeBrown I guess that must be it

No, not always. A majority of the time it's fireworks but there are definitely times I've thought I heard fireworks and it turned out to be gun shots. Meanwhile my mom thinks everything is gunshots.

@brileeka ionno The number of pops and the pattern of the pops gives it away

Not to mention some of the more notable Universities are sitting on multi-million dollar if not billion dollar endowments.

And the universities started expanding their administrative/bureaucratic departments at the same time. There are a lot of reports covering "administrative bloat" in US higher education.

After my sophomore year in University I stopped tracking how many unnecessary administrative workers there were. It was too depressing.

Not quite accurate. In Michigan, at least, state government greatly reduced its financial support of state universities (as the state cut costs to pay for tax reductions). Result was tuition went way up to make up for some of the difference. Actual cost per student went down, as Universities also made cuts. But the biggest burden still came as higher tuition. It would cost government (taxpayer) far less to return to levels of state support for universities seen in the 1940s-1970s than to pay for guarantee of high student loans needed today.

What year was that?

*critiques (meaning criticism) critics = plural noun, meaning a person who criticizes or reviews something (perhaps as their profession)

Schopenhauer was a bitter old man who hated just about everything; he was also Adolf’s favorite philosopher.

@@Storytime2023x Cheap.

Sounds a little intellectually snobby, an educated poo poohing an uneducated one.

Our school system had huge reform around the early 2000s and it has only progressively gotten worse. Kids can't even stand at the bus pickup spot by themselves.

The schools are being dumbed down deliberately. Not to mention used for programming and indoctrination now. The same thing is going to happen in Germany. This is a global agenda.

You are so right. When we were in Europe we enjoyed not needing a car.😊

My kids and I all have degrees and no debt. Mo medical bills. It's mostly about choices. As far as languages, most languages aren't available everywhere. And languages aren't the only way to measure something.

​@@sharonlibbra7424I've never needed a car in my life. So there's that.

Yup and All the fatties that won't exercise or think smoking or vaping is a right...We re pretty fit in Denver with the bike paths and hiking

I think it's more so many Americans don't want to pre pay for health insurance (which is what countries like Germany do through very high tax rates) as most Americans go decades without life affecting medical problems and would be paying hundreds of thousands in taxes without truly needing expensive and important medical assistance until they're older and that's if they need it. There's also the fact many people are sketchy about leeches on the system and not enough people paying into it which places like the UK and Germany have plenty of (it's one of the many reasons the NHS is failing in the UK)

@@kevinprzy4539 Unfortunately, your statements show half-knowledge. Our health insurances are not financed by taxes but every employee pays 50% of his salary and the other 50% is paid by the employer. And our overall tax burden is no higher than in the USA. Only the deductions from the salary are higher, the so-called wage or income tax. There are other taxes, but these are collected elsewhere. In total, however, we really don't pay any more than citizens in the USA and you can research this in many places on the Internet. And these people you call leeches do exist, but there are nowhere near as many of them as you think. And if you are referring to refugees, that suggests a bad attitude, which I am not trying to impute to you. Most countries with a functioning healthcare system function as a community of solidarity. If my neighbor has lung cancer because he smoked, I will contribute to his treatment even if I don't like the fact that he smokes. That's how compassion and a community of solidarity work. Not every selfish person likes this and because the USA is a community of mostly self-centered, selfish people without much compassion, it won't work there. Especially among the rich

@@gerhardma4297 lmao this was a total assumption comment and literally everything you said has been proven false, this feels like a fever dream with how ridiculous and wrong your comment is.

@@gerhardma4297 That is patently false. The USA tax burden is 27.7% of GDP and Germany's is 39.3%. BTW, when an employer is forced to pay something the public at large STILL foots the bill for it.

If there's such a thing as "gun violence," then is there also such a thing as "gun benevolence?" If I talk to my gun, what questions should I ask her to find out which she is?

@@Soldierboy54b Considering your user name this is probably a moot point, but he was talking about violence that involved the usage of a firearm. If hiding behind semantics is your best defense your country (assuming you're a yank) should have gotten rid of the "right to bear arms" ages ago.

@@Llyd_ApDicta .... Semantics? This is serious. Think of all the potential car & swimming pool violence there might be out there as well!

@@Soldierboy54b Mayhaps but right now I am thinking about someone discussing generally accepted expressions in a language spoken by hundreds of millions of people and then producing something like this "...pool violence *there* might be out there as well!"

@@Llyd_ApDicta .... And I am thinking about the rediculous notion of assigning blame to inanimate objects.

People don't understand that insurance companies lose money when they provide healthcare.

Wha

@@anton1949 But they should also only able to earn money when they provide healthcare.

How can they make money providing healthcare when providing it costs them money? Not providing it is what makes them money. Just like any insurance.

@@anton1949 If an insurance doesn't pay out money every once in a while, everybody would stop being their customer. Being reliable is one important factor, how much they cover is another and their price is important, too. Shouldn't we see some healthcare providers that try to outcompete their competitors with lower average profits per person, but more customers?

Our health care problems are because of government intervention. We need to get government out of health care. It's just gotten worse with ObamaCare.

thats a feature of the US heath care 'system'

Get better insurance. I've never paid a medical bill.

@@johnclaybaugh9536it’s possible she has a high deductible health plan. The idea for having such a plan is to max your HSA if you do have such a plan. When I had HSA, we had a plan to pay at most 7K out of pocket (as a couple). Now when I have a PPO, I hardly spent a few hundred dollars in spite of visiting specialists and having a CPAP machine. That is the risk you take with a high deductible plan that you agree that it can be 6-7K out of pocket.

​@@johnclaybaugh9536BS...No insurance covers 100%

Similar here in Germany: My new GP did a full check, blood tests, ultrasound of the whole abdomen. Then, I got the info that I needed surgery. So, I went to a hospital of my choice for a first talk with the assistant medical director to check and decide, whether the surgery really should be done. He was all relaxed and dedicated more than sufficient time to me. I decided for it. So, two weeks later, I got another ultrasound check and blood test at the hospital to prepare for the surgery the next business day. They did a minimal invasive procedure by endoscopy to remove the culprit from my body (around 2.5 hours with two active surgeons). After that, I stayed in the hospital for a total of the days, food, medication, and care, plus two more blood tests included. Also, they gave me extra medication just in case I need it (I didn't) to take home - plus a prescription for more. After hospital, I have stayed off sick to recover for another 1.5 weeks (and should be getting back to work next week - even though my doctor votes for yet another week off me being off. I just don't think, that's really necessary. All this is being covered by my minimal compulsory insurance. No extra insurance involved. I just need to pay a fee of 30€ for the three days at the hospital. By the way: Before leaving the hospital, I enquired what I should tell my employer, by when they might expect me back. The reply was: "Well, in the US, this would have been an ambulant surgery and people would go back to work right the next day." ... I am soooo glad that that's not really the measure here! Couldn't have worked right the next day, plus it would have hindered the quick recovery. So sad, a well-developped and rich country such as the US calls for this.

It doesn't SEEM to cost anything, but you ARE paying for it via taxes. Albeit, it's probably still not as expensive as in the U.S. b/c organized crime doesn't inflate the cost of everything healthcare-related like it does in the U.S.

In Australia there is no profit in delivering healthcare. THAT'S the main difference.

​@@nathan2813Not a tax but a member fee(?) for one of the public healthcare services. That's paid as a share of your income. At 14,6 % but no more than a max of 8760€ per year. It's one of those solidarity based systems.

Tell that to the thousands on waiting list, and why are Australians taxed higher if they don't have private insurance? The Australian system is great for emergency and necessary situations. It's not for things less pressing, and I've had two instances where I was forced to go private. One was to repair an AC should joint because it was deemed I could live with a permanent restriction in movement, and the other was surgery for a broken wrist that was deemed would likely heal satisfactorily if in plaster for 4 months.

A chat in her wrist? What did you mean to type?

@@alvallac2171 I meant cyst - thanks for the catch.

Are you on Obamcare? Because that is what caused deductibles and copays to go through the roof. Pre-Obamacare my insurance cost a similar amount to after, but the co-pays were much lower. Then Obamacare came and my deductible went up from $1000 to $8000. And coverages became much less. Obamacare ruined my health care and my finances.

@@stephenjensen5358 no, I had Priority for the wrist surgery and BCBS for my nose surgery.

I had a nose job in Germany and paid 20$ in total for the hospital stay. That is all.

you know the answer.

Like lack of social cohesion and economic disparity? That's a very commie comment from you!

...🙄....

Do you feel guilty for making the amount of money you made as a Dr? I doubt it.

@@heshy14 Tell me that you are an American without... Money rules America. Let other people die .. it´s all good as long you getting rich by it.

​@@heshy14 Why should he? He has skills that are far more important to a functioning society than those of many billionaires but earns a tiny fraction of the income

​@@wheeliebeast7679this!!!

@@heshy14 4 years of pre-med, 4 years of medical school, 3-4 years of residency. Thirty years-old before making a return on investment. Why feel guilty?

RFK Jr?

It's very hard to create a stable system of government which does not give out-sized leverage to fringe parties with a multiparty system. The problem with coalitions as in Europe is that little, sometimes crazy parties can easily become king-makers in a governing coalition. That's the flip side of the coin in terms of the alternative political system.

@@raymonddrake3675 Can, but do not nessecery become. And the best side is that also minorities get noted and representented.

*me. It (to fix your comma splice run-on)

@@mikkorenvall428 *necessarily *represented.

That may be true where you live,but the leading cause of death in children in the USA is guns.

And I'm willing to bet you have a alarmingly high suicide rate.

No it's not the middle class aka suburbanites, it's the poor who get screwed over the most

It's a conundrum, because in terms of the advanced leading edge treatments, the US is the best place. That's why people come here from all over the world including the UK and Canada for treatment. Especially for rare conditions.

No the middle class can lose everything with a bad diagnosis such as cancer. Most poor persons can qualify for medicaid as long as they don't live in a greedy state.

Unfortunately, the US ¨falls far short¨ when it comes to soooo very many things....

It’s written Mannheim (just FYI) 😊

@@cimareco3617 There is also a city in Germany called Manheim, with one M. 🙃

Look for an Amish community. You’ll find good bread 🥖

I'm not German, but I bake my own breads using German recipes. I'll never go back. German baked goods are the best on the planet.

@@cimareco3617 typo, I am from the 2 n's...

I have long wondered how German Jews would have faired in the .30's & 40's if they, or Germans generally, had been armed to the teeth under some Germanic 2nd amendment in 1900?

No, its not secondary. When you look at state constitutions at the time the explicitly state self defense as a motivation for their analogous (2A) rights.

@@pablolasha I doubt that one can rank order the utilities of a natural right, but the Federalist Papers are clearly concerned about being able to overthrow a tyrannical government, and those state constitutions often warn of the dangers of standing armies.

​@@markhoadley8678 But there is also the risk, that it goes the other way round: A legally elected government, that is later disliked by a majority, may be overtrown, or a president wants to fix his presidency by motivating people to make a storm at the White House. A good demagogue is possible to manipulate people as he likes. I'm German and know about the risks, also for the USA...

The original intent doesn't matter in a practical sense because the guns are here. It's like telling a guy with a broken arm he should have been more careful. The reality is that gun violence is caused by criminals. Making guns illegal doesn't mean the criminals would suddenly start obeying new laws and get rid of them. Those who follow laws, which is most people, would get rid of their guns. Then we would have armed criminals and defenseless citizens, so that's a worse scenario than the status quo. If there were an easy solution to the problem, it would have been implemented already.

@@coldcubanlink So I'm not allowed to share my personal experience with the german education and health care system, unless I study the american system? No experience sharing allowed?

Perfect , I totally agree! Thank you 💯👏

How can these other countries afford such things for their citizens? Its almost like there's a whole other country contributing the lion-share of funding for things like the United Nations, aid to war torn areas like Ukraine, and things of that nature. So I wonder if that large contributor would be able to do so much more for its own citizens if these other countries paid their "fair share" of the costs... 😜

I love the "Didn't cost me anything" mantra. SOMEONE pays for EVERYTHING. It is socialism and government's main business is protecting it's citizens, not "investing" in anything. Private business does most anything better and cheaper than government can. Farmers don't come to your door and give away their food, doctors don't beg you to allow them to operate on or treat you for free, no company just loves to pay you not to work because you tore something playing volleyball. If you don't pay, SOMEONE does, either through higher product prices, higher taxes or higher bills that they have to pay to compensate for you not paying. It's simple economics. People complain about the cost of drugs but it's the drug companies that cover the huge cost of research, raw materials, the time and expense of the approval process, etc. And when they get sick and there is a drug to cure them they thank God for the drug. SOMEONE pays for EVERYTHING. "It didn't cost me anything" may be true but the cost is passed on to someone else. Pure communist manifesto: 'From each according to ability; to each according to need'.

@Paul-ju5px You put it better than I ever could. Thank you

Cool story bro. 😎

Well good for you.

as for gun violence, come live in a big city in germany. No experience with gun violence at all and not hearing about it on TV (or these days, online).

Really? You have apparently never lived in some of the small USA-towns my friends and relatives spent time in or are still living in. The statistics are actually blasting this nonsensical FOXNews talking point, as rural America is more violent and sees more drug use per person than big cities now! In a place with 1000 people, it may be less likely to witness violence, than in a city of 2 million. HOWEVER, if the big city has 100 murders/year, and the small town has 1, or maybe just 3 bar fights a year, that is actually more than the big city has at 2000 times the population! Do the math! 1 murder in a town of 1000, which is NOT uncommon, translates to 2000 in that city of 2million!

@@owenlaprath4135 That's pretty much the case in most small or even largish towns, lots of guns but gun violence is almost non existent. Yeah a lot more drugs than there used to be unfortunately but little to no gun violence.

I’m from a small town and gun and other violent crimes are very rare, we also have very pro self defense laws.

​@@parryhotter3138I live in a big city in the US and don't have any direct experience. So there's that.

Wow that's seriously Fd, do that in Australia would have cost only a couple hundred dollars as our Govt medicare system would have paid for the rest.

@@seegee7728 Try about $20 US for the visit to the ER, and you could probably get a taxi fair paid for of course.

CA is now a 2nd world society headed for 3rd. When people think of LA now they think of homeless camps everywhere

U.S. physician here (Pennsylvania). There are no metatarsals in the hand. There are metacarpals…five to be exact (including the thumb, which is typically not injured by the same mechanism as that which involves the other four MCs). In the 35 years I’ve been practicing, most of them at level 1 trauma centers, I’ve never seen any hand with 14 fractures involving the 5 metacarpals. Even in industrial crush injuries, MVCs, falls from heights, never. That’s just not how MC fractures work. Also, in patients with such a massive hand injury, I’ve never seen a patient splinted and sent home. There is invariably nerve and vascular injury. Such patients are always admitted to a trauma or hand surgery service with surgery performed no more than 24 hours after presentation. If there is no hand surgeon coverage at the hospital where the patient presents, they are transferred to one that has a hand surgeon available. I also seriously doubt (no offense) you would not have been given heavy-duty pain medication. Last, upon arriving at the triage desk, you would have been whisked to an exam room, stat, and an admission receptionist would have met you there, to get your info…if you were stable enough to do so. (When we receive a Level A or Level B trauma, patient care is so paramount, no clerical people even get to see the patient, let alone ask for insurance info; it’s common for them to be admitted as a "John Doe" with a temporary ID medical record number). You’re either misremembering, telling a tall-tale, or…California hospital ED care is so horrific, you need to move.

​@@mattp422Sorry for the mistype and the breaks weren't from a fall from hight, but rather from being tackled by a dog knocking me free of the electric scooter sending me in the opposite direction of the initial inertia of the scooter. More importantly the hospital in my town lost their trauma certifications more than 10 years ago. Normally any and all trauma cases are lifeflighted or receive ambulance support after stabilization. And as a Dr you should know better than to assume you've seen everything. I wish KZfaq comments allowed pictures so you could see the x-rays and updates and read the summery reports including the determination made by my current orthopedic surgeon who is treating me now. I hope that clarifies the situation for you. And in all my years of riding bikes motorcycles and scooters this was the first time I was tackled by a dog while riding thank you for correcting my errors

I have family with crappy practically free state insurance (my dads triple bypass) only ended up leaving him with a $4000 bill they broke down to $15 a month for him to pay.

$50k out of pocket... bonkers ... Should be free? paid by publicly funded health care

@@TicatHockey yeah I'm part of the public and I dont want my tax money going to some random persons health bill I'd rather have it benefit me and my local community.

@@TicatHockey Paid by tax dollars. Charge me more tax, I pay into the pool, people who need the assistance use the pooled money. Plus, the cost of healthcare managed at cost and not at cost plus profit.

​@@kevinprzy4539I just love the US that most Christian nation of them all! Love your next, brother!

As always, you can explain it well and understandably, but in the end you in the USA have surrendered to the industry and the lobbyists who bribe your politicians to maintain the status quo. Whether it's healthcare policy, gun policy or any other area that affects society as a whole. Profit and greed have taken over in the USA

Pretty sure it’s stress.

Yes, and we have less of a "monoculture" than other places on Feli's list, the US is a huge place with lots of different kinds of people.

The lower life expectancy comes from many causes: sedentary lifestyles from a car-centric culture, poor nutrition as well as over eating, lack of accessible health care, high maternal and child mortality, racial health care disparities and a highly individualistic culture which equates to lack of family anf social support.

@@irmapersoff5385 racial healthcare disparities? They don't exist. Its a talking point with no solid data to support it. Car centric is because we are a large country. Many Europeans come here thinking they can see everything in a couple of weeks not realizing how spread out this country is. The USA defines infant mortality differently than most countries and how the WHO defines it. Its broader here than in Europe.

St. Louis consistently ranks as the most dangerous city in the US. Cleveland consistently rates as more dangerous than Cincinnati, btw.

If what you say is true, about Cincinnati being the most violent, I am shocked! I would have guessed the most violent to be Baltimore, St Lou MO, NOLA, or Memphis. I would have guessed Cincinnati to be in with less violent cities like Chicago, New York. Detroit, Cleveland and Philadelphia.

The point is to actually check state gun laws. A lot of these federal problems are mitigated in some states. Should they be better at a federal level? Yes. But there's no denying the effects of state laws.

Yeah, I went to visit by cousin in Cincinnati when she was there for college and it was over new years and within a few days there had already been several homicides in the news. Many places that I've lived, the first homicide of the year was maybe sometime in the spring or summer. Not several in the first few days of the year! I was shocked. I had no idea it was such a dangerous city.

I'm in Yonkers next to the Bronx. I don't know anyone who'd ever been shot. I don't know why people live in fear. I'm more scared of knives, honestly.

Agreed. Some people will find something to complain about no matter what.

I'm with you dude !

As long as you haven't died, you should care about what others have to live with. Haven't you heard of "leaving a legacy" before ?

Ahem., if you come here and miss something like your wonderful bread, cheeses, and quark (especially quark) please open a business with the real thing. We want that stuff. We sneak it home in our luggage. So please open a cheese and bakery shop in my town, I guarantee you will be busy. Meanwhile, not about you, but when I was in Germany I missed our humor and laughter. Bring yourself to our country, be yourself, share the pleasures you find in your homeland.

Healthcare and insurance are two of the most regulated industries. This is why it’s so expensive.

More rules than in Germany? I sincerely doubt that.

I'm flabbergasted about the fact that if you don't have insurance the bill is less. So the health care is scamming the insurance company and therefore they bill the citizens. How is it that I as a Dutchie get all the bills paid by my insurance company if I get ill or in an accident in America. No question asked.

@@prutteltje1300 it was a response to insurance companies flatly denying all claims, then saying "ok, we'll pay you 75% go away" the hospital has to hire people to fight for those claims, it takes time away from the doctors and nurses to file endless paperwork to fight for the claims. imho you would have to be a complete sociopath to sit between a person and their health care provider to demand your cut of the transaction. for-profit health care should be outlawed again.

And for some reason there seem to be more people that think they benefit from the current system than people that actually do.

And they are a slim minority, but that does not matter to them since they will tell you that the U.S. is not a democracy, but a constitutional republic. When you ask them what they mean by a constitutional republic, they will tell you that a constitutional republic is a system in which they get everything their way regardless of how few of them there may be.

except that isnt true is it

​@@kosmokritikos9299 The U.S.A. is a democratic constitutional republic. The 2022-Jan-6 attempted coup d' etát was to sever the constitutionally mandated Congressional process to delegate the people's power resulting from the democratic votes of the electorate of the various states to the U.S.A. federal government.

Type Ashton is an idiot or, worse, a liar. She doesn't understand that the problems with US healthcare are due to government involvement, and that just got worse with ObamaCare. Moreover, she actually insists that something in the Bill of Rights, and referred to as a right in the 2nd Amendment itself, is actually a privilege contingent on membership in a militia.

Indeed. We are WAY too lax with the wantonly violent and infringe the rights of those of us who are never violent which just further emboldens the criminals. My state is particularly bad about this, almost every murder ends with the reporter saying and the suspect has a long history of violent crime. The 6 safest states all have permitless carry, and Ohio recently went to permitless carry and saw a decrease in the homicide rate in 6 of the 8 biggest cities.

Milk that hasn't been pasteurized can transmit deadly diseases such as tuberculosis. If you are the producer and consumer of unpasteurized milk on your farm, the FDA probably won't know unless you squawk about it. FDA regulation prevents massive outbreak of diseases via the drinking of milk.

The US already has the highest incarceration rate of any western country. It's obviousely not working. And US prisons would be considered human rights violations in any civilised country. And don't get me started in the prison industrial complex. As long as your only answer to reoffenders is to cry for longer prison sentences, nothing will change. Many european countries have great success with rehabilitation programs. The US could easily take a leaf out of their book. If only that weren't such an un-american thing to do...

Didn’t she have Medicare?

She should have had Medicare and medicaid. What makes you feel that it's shameful for Bill collectors to require payment from the estate of the deceased? That happens everywhere. It doesn't matter how they acquired the asset. They still have to pay their debt. I'm not opposed to a better Healthcare system in the US, but payment of debt is still the law.

The obvious solution is to TAX everyone to do that. Lets do what Germany does and tax EVERYONE, 14% to pay for it. No Expections.

Correction. Mom was living off dads gov pension not off SSC which is requirement to get medicare

@@kenkaufman9998 the first 10,000 is untaxed no exceptions you left that part out

the last thing drug dealers want is gunmen lurking round. gangs? living in USA gangs serve a purpose of protection... There are far too many people for police protect.

And what is that supposed to tell us? That these dead are therefore not relevant? That these people don't count? Second-class people? Criminals, scum? And what about other crimes carried out with armed force, such as robberies? Surely that's only ever black people and drug addicts or gangs, isn't it? And the statistics alone with the categorization of 16 - 35 year olds already show how broken the USA is! 16-year-olds are included? In the rest of the world, 16 to 18 year olds are busy with the opposite sex and are not part of the statistics for murders. It doesn't help to always talk yourself up. The USA is very close to the abyss... but not just because of the guns but because of its politicians and the rift through society.

I live in rural Brown County Ohio. Our violent crime rate is very low, possibly because almost every house has a gun and children are taught gun safety. I am 71 and know of no one who has been shot outside of military service. I am friends withe retired and active cops, none who have been shot. Several have been involved in shootings. When I was in college, I was a part time armed guard in East. St. Louis which was a very high crime area and was never required to use a weapon. If you are aware of the area you are in and avoid situations that could be dangerous you will not have any problems. By the way, I have a concealed handgun license and have carried a gun every day for the last 20 years.

I'd like to offer a different view on the topic, based on statistics: About 1000 persons are shot do death by US police per year on average over the last years, and the number is slowly rising. At the same time here in Germany, at about one quarter the population, and higher overall population density the number of shots fired by police on human targets is at about 50 to 60 per year over the last two decades, and the number of actual kills per year is around ten on average. Whether you blame that on the quasi omnipresence of guns in the US of A, or the usually much shorter education time of police officers is up to you. I'd say it's a combination of both ...

@@karlstreed3698 drugs are everywhere but in your county,

In Italy too.

But how good is that free care? I've heard where it takes months to get needed surgery and procedures in the UK and other places. The UK also has private medical care for those that can afford it.

How are your taxes? Have there been protests about the govt trying to change anything about the benefits received? How does it feel to have to pay almost 1/5 (18 percent) of your income just to healthcare?

@@user-xx2hj7xb6b waiting lists being high is a relatively new phenomenon. The current conservative government have driven the health service into the ground. The NHS was one of the best health services in the world 14 years ago under the labour government. The way they've dealt with the health service is one of the main reasons the conservatives are over 20% behind the labour party in the opinion polls and are facing oblivion at the next election. It's not the system that's wrong, it's the people that have ran it.

@@SpidermanandJeny actually per person Britain spends far less than America when you factor in government spending in both countries on healthcare. And no there are no protests over taxes. The most unpopular prime minister in my life time only lasted for less than 50 days because people didn't like how she was going to cut taxes.

Let a french bread loaf sit out for a day and it turns crusty...or buy a baguette that is already crusty...I can go to my local grocery store in Indiana and get one whenever I want

​@@johng5710tell me you haven't had decent bread in your lifetime without actually telling me you haven't.

You say that like an opinion is a privilege tolerated begrudgingly. In the actual free world that isn’t the case. We have the freedom not to live under the yolk of relentless and brutal capitalism. We live in a fair and decent world which, by any reasonable definition, the USA is not.

@@jonathanfinan722 you must not have read my comment at all.

German is changing to communist state.

Of course, it's perfectly fine! It's called having an opinion. Especially as Feli actually lives in the US and experiences firsthand all the issues she is talking about. She is entitled to a different opinion and if you think that is criticising, we definitely have different ideas of the concept.

@@pepita46 that is not what I was saying at all. Please read what I said without trying to make it into something it isn't. My post was to support her in her right to voice her opinion, even though some may disagree with some things she said.

But then we can exercise our second amendment right and take care of our own "surgery".

@@Dosbomber But is that a good way to do things? ie, Have private militias paid for by private insurance instead of police paid for by taxes, and that people rely primarily on privately owned firearms to protect themselves?

@@EASYTIGER10 Splitting this into two different paragraphs because the analogy is stretching too far... Anything the government gets involved in ends up corrupted, inefficient, wildly overpriced (taxed), and dysfunctional. Nationalized (socialist) health care is all of those things. I've known two people who were given a 10-month waiting period to see an NHS oncologist for a cancer that would, without immediate treatment, kill them in 3. Their solution? Come to America and get the medical problem actually treated by medical professionals. There's a reason Canada has endorsed "assisted suicide" as a medical treatment. Their tax-funded NHS can't afford actual timely health care, and the government is taking a lion's share of that money for "administration" expenses. As for the analogy of police vs private firearms, having a working local police department who are doing their jobs and incarcerating actual criminals, reducing the chance of a home invasion in the first place, would be great. Unfortunately, government involvement (and increasing "diversity") has also led to this being way too expensive and corrupt, and so is being "regional"-ized so now it takes hours for someone to show up to help you. Having a means of defending your own family when the crisis is "in your face" is literally of life-and-death importance. The government doesn't care about you. Why would you trust them as the only source of either protection OR medical treatment?

@@EASYTIGER10 Cool:) That's the plot of "Mad Max"? Isn't it? Hehehehe Greetings from Germany where Healthcare isn't free, but a community driven insurance and cheap and good as sliced bread!:) I wish you all good health! (Or a speedy recovery of your system to something actually human ... because that lies in the hand of the voters. You;) )

That was how the fire departments were at one time.

What state do you live in? We have wide access to excellent cheese of all kinds.

That’s because you but Kraft American singles 🤮

@@carrdoug99 I think they were specifically referring to "American Cheese". Of course other real cheeses are available.

I see many grocery stores offering many types of premium cheese, imported and domestic.

I'm pretty sure "American cheese" is actually just dried latex paint.

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The way to fix this is to have every district's vote count as it was cast. California, for instance, has been basically throwing away 1/3 of its votes every election as one party has a lock on the state. Same with Texas. So in both states, the other side's agenda is never even brought up and often explicitly targeted. Resulting in two extremes in how the state is run - one is basically a free-for-all, and the other wants to return to 1950. With anyone in the middle or on the other side being simply ignored. Where I live now ( I used to live in California, my son in Texas - so I've seen both sides of this extreme ), it's a 50/50 state and we all have to (often begrudgingly - lol) cooperate to get anything done.

@@plektosgaming In Norway we have a storting (similar to congress) with 169 members. Currently 10 political parties are represented there, some big and some small. If a country with 5.5 million people can have 10 political parties (plus several that didn't get into the storting), USA could easily have 20 or more if the election system was different. Then the sane parties could make alliances with other sane parties and let the maniacs scream in the corners without having much influence. I'm not saying our political system is perfect, but it does make it harder for outlayers to block decisions, and people can find political parties they mostly agree with.

@@torejorgensen5344 No, I agree. Our system here is completely broken and designed to keep the two parties in power. The thing most people don't realize is that it's all fake. That is, that these same people eat lunch together, their kids go to the same schools, they go to the same social events. They basically choose which "party" to be part of based on their state but in the end, it's two sides of the same group of people who play the "politics" game. 95% of it is fake to keep the normal people thinking there are huge differences. In the end, it's all about maintaining power. Say the right things, play the game and act a lot for the press and life goes on as normal in the easiest job in the country that also makes you a millionaire in the end.

Road trips are great, and cars offer a freedom to go where one wants that mass transit does not. Jacksonville area is great for a history buff like me, Saint Augustine is a place I really enjoyed.

@@Anon54387 absolutely agree, but mass transit would be nice for frequent trips between cities.

Don’t go to Asia then 😅

Absolutely!! 😍

Maybe American houses should be built from something other than cardboard!

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Facts

I need my screens but yes 😂

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They are delusional. They've convinced themselves they are right when they are not. Reading German history and they have immense capacity to fool themselves. That's the deeper lesson of the Third Reich that they still have not learned.

*problems *its (possessive pronoun) it's = contraction of "it is" or "it has" All contractions have apostrophes. Possessive pronouns never do.

Yup the healthcare system here in the US is terrible. I got charged 4000 dollars for 10 stitches and a tetanus shot.

I would agree until I lived in the UK for 6 years, 6 years worth of extremely high taxes when the only thing I did was a yearly checkup every year (which would cost me $4 in the states with crappy free state provided health insurance)

@@kevinprzy4539 Here we have another typical case of someone who has not understood the principle of socialized healthcare. The people in it are part of a community of solidarity. I pay my share for the treatment of other people I don't even know and that's a good thing. Because I am doing something good for society as a whole. Americans don't know and understand this principle. A country full of egomaniacs, intolerance and a lack of compassion. And you show this once again in your statement, and also that education has failed you because otherwise you would have understood the principle

True i never did also

That's just crazy! You should be able to ID what kind of gun was fired by the smell alone (like a .22 caliber vs a black powder .45 cal). Of course, the sounds can be very different. Even between black powder guns, a revolver has a sharper more modern sound vs. the low, boomier sound of a muzzle loader.

As a German I can say that appointment in the USA would cost you $5000. That is sad. I agree that privately insured in Germany are better off, but there are obviously also some disadvantages. On average the cost of healthcare is about 15 to 20% of American healthcare I had to pay $18,000 at Miami hospital for one night

@@etopsch369 Yes I know that but I have that fear, many hospitals are in really bad condition… I hope this changes but I fear it won’t… some private investors will be at hand and statutory health insurance wont be accepted in this new private hospitals. Maybe there are differences from Bundesland to Bundesland but in Bremen its bad.

Yes the German system has it's flaws too, but it is still a lot better than in the US. Unfortunately most of this flaws were introduced because of some really dumb political decisions that were supposed to improve the system but actually made it worse. Like not paying the doctor if he already treated a certain amount of publicly insured patients. Of cause doctors now try to make patients wait till they get paid again. I also don't understand how any politician could really believe that privatizing hospitals could make them cheaper. Before hospitals just had to cover their expenses. Now they have to cover their expenses and have to make profit. How could this be cheaper?

Yet in the USA we don't have to wait. BTW, my dad had to have a shoulder surgery. No waiting unlike our Canadian counter parts, and my dad was able to set up a (as is standard) a payment plan on the co-pay portion of the surgery at no interest.

@@Anon54387 Well if I decided to get private insurance or pay myself in Germany I usually wouldn't have to wait much either. But the treatment and especially the hospital care would be a LOT cheaper than in the US. And it is not only the treatment that is cheaper but also important medicine. In 2018 the insulin price in Germany was $11 (not the copay, the actual price) in the US it was $98.70 !

guns is your average Americans fault not the law, teaching your kids the importance and how to safely use a gun and teaching them it's not a toy is very important and would lower gun violence not to mention majority (70%) of gun related crimes are committed with an illegally obtained gun.

@@kevinprzy4539 You're the dad of a family in the US. You own guns, because you believe in "protecting" your family. You teach your kids everything the right way. But just the fact that you own guns, guns that you, your wife and your growing up kids can get their hands on at any time, always remains. There are so many instances that happen to human beings over the course of a human life, that can trigger somebody doing something really bad and stupid. Just to name a few: Your wife might start cheating on you - you freak out, anger starts growing and you might use that thing on your wife. Or you cheat your wife and your wife does it. Your finances might collapse and mental health issues occur - your health insurance doesn't pay for all of this and you might choose to do something stupid. Your son gets bullied and has issues in school. Your son has mental problems during his teenager period. Or a failed love that breaks his heart. You develop serious family issues with other parts of your family - oncles, aunts, fathers, mothers, cousins. There are various problems, that might pop up over the course of a human life. You can not prepare your kids to never ever make a stupid error involving a gun. That's not possible. We're human beings with emotions and subject to sicknesses and reflex reactions that we later regret. We aren't robots. And your kids won't be any different, even if you're the best mom or dad on the planet. I'm sorry to say that, but it is true.

Bologna, because nobody is going to use it, and it is a complete waste of taxpayer money.

If I was working at a German news station I would apologize for my country for starting a world war.

@coldcubanlink Both of them? 🤔

"a world war" 😂 can you read?

@@coldcubanlink 1914 - 1918, 1939 - 1945

In America we never had nazis so

people are getting 2 weeks????? everyone i know gets a week at most

Maternity leave must be nice for the people who get it, but the people still working while they are on leave get screwed. I had two ladies leave on maternity leave and a bunch of their work got dumped on me for 8-12 weeks. Did I get extra pay for all that extra work? Nope. Did I get 8-12 weeks of vacation when they returned and my work got dumped on them? Nope. And the irony is, if I asked for a raise to compensate for all this extra responsibility, when the ladies returned they would probably shout my getting paid more than them amounted to the gender pay gap... "we're working the same job but he's getting paid more than me! SEXISM!!" 🙄

​@@user-cj7ii5xf5gthe business should be prepared and, anyhow, they could hire a substitute. After all, maternity and paternity leaves are paid by taxes, not on business money (at least, here, so business don't have ridiculous excuses to overload coworkers).

@@inigogarcia4336 Hiring a temp (or substitute, as you put it) would cost the company money - if they won't pay extra for me to do the work, they're not going to pay extra to hire someone temporarily either. And here, maternity leave is paid for either by the company or by short-term disability insurance (which is also paid for by the company, which is why not every company offers it). Also, not all jobs can be trained in a day or even a couple weeks. At the technical level at my work, it takes up to six months to get someone properly trained to do the job...these are high level accounting positions, not entry-level data entry type jobs. You don't want to spend the time and effort to train someone for those positions just for a few months - and even finding someone who would want to only work them for a few months would also be difficult. This is where the reality of business meets the fantasy of people who don't know how businesses work.

Agree with all of mwoods8988, and live in East Cinci, safely without guns. They are owned, not used. But I would change the healthcare system by making it like Germany’s, where (correct me if I err) the private drug manufacturers must transparently negotiate drug prices with the private insurance companies and doctors/clinics.

@@stinla8844 Glad (but not surprised) to hear that East Cincy has safe suburbs too. I've lived in suburbs in its NE, SE, and SW. I agree that we need changes to the healthcare system. With all that I've read, I think what we need is at least something like either (A) a public option like the USA's current Medicare or Medicaid, but open to everyone, or (B) a single payer system (sometimes called "Medicare for all"). With a public option #A, the government offers insurance plans that compete with plans from insurance companies. Currently, Medicare and Medicaid have negotiated lower prices than insurance companies because of how many consumers Medicare and Medicaid represent. With a single payer system #B, the government basically replaces insurance companies. This would give the government even more negotiating power. It's antiquated that in the USA, healthcare insurance is usually through your job, because who chooses a job based on liking the job's particular healthcare insurance plan? I was never presented with an insurance plan until I was actually hired. And when someone loses their job, they're probably going to be uninsured. A step that's further than all of these is (C) the government running hospitals like the USA's current VA (Veterans' Administration) hospital system, but every hospital. Cincinnati's VA hospital is very good -- my dad went there several times. My dad even got his medicine from the VA, without a copay, for a lifelong prescription that otherwise (if he had gotten it through insurance copay) would have cost him over $1000 per month. One now not-so-secret secret is that prescription prices vary immensely both between which pharmacy you go to and between which insurance plan you use. The easiest way for me to price compare is through GoodRX.com, where I often see 10:1 or 50:1 price differences between pharmacies. You would be amazed. The reason for the huge difference in prescription and hospital prices is, many years ago, insurance companies wanted bigger discount percentages, so the pharmacies and hospitals raised their prices on everything, through many cycles over the years, and insurance got their bigger discount percentages. So, usually, if you have to pay out-of-pocket (i.e., the non-insurance price), you're paying an outrageous price. (An exception is sometimes for a prescription, where the non-insurance price is less than the insurance's copay price when there's a secret kickback in the copay, and their secret contract says the pharmacy can't voluntarily mention that the non-insurance price is lower.) Fortunately, dentists have largely been spared from these insurance negotiation cycles, so their non-insurance prices are pretty reasonable. If the USA had a single payer system #B or ran hospitals #C, there wouldn't be surprise bills from out-of-network doctors who might check on you for a minute during recovery. With single payer, the per capita spending on healthcare would drastically decline from the USA's current double of what other developed countries spend. Of all of these options, I like #C or #B. Everyone would be covered and no surprise bills. With C#, stockholders and outrageously paid executives wouldn't be siphoning money out of the system. A lot smaller share of America's GDP would be spent on healthcare, and healthcare outcomes would remain about the same as currently in America and other developed countries. The obstacle to healthcare reform is the lobbyists, because there's so much money being made currently. So, public funding of elections is another thing I would change about the USA. It would greatly reduce the impact of lobbyists. Ranked choice voting is another thing I would change about the USA. It would make it much more likely that political moderates would be elected, even if gerrymandering continued. I think Feli hasn't considered how impactful public funding of elections and ranked choice voting would have on what she would change about the USA, because they'd be my first changes.

how old r you? you'll have home insurance if you own a house..

@@jjboyd01 56. I worked in the medical industry for 17 yrs and watched how insurance works. Its not that different for vehicles, homes etc. The difference being the amount and levels of corruption. I dont own, but I do have renter’s insurance.

In fact; your 'out of pocket ' pays for the actual costs. The rest goes to profits and investors.

Yep, tort law is brutal in the USA and should be reformed.

@@buzzbomb67 I've been lucky.... I'm a vet qualify for VA healthcare. A big reason to serve.

Real butter and crème fraiche are the backbone of any kitchen, just like good olive oil, nice tomatoes, and onions.

I found it in Kroger (Vermont brand for $5.99 and Bellwether Farms for $6.99), I think she should take another look there.

You can substitute creme fraiche with sour(ed) cream in most recipes.

@@phoebus007 it is not the same, for me it is like substituting milk with soy or oat milk.

I keep preaching to her that she needs to consider a bluer state. I have family in OH; I've visited. I'd never move there.

Wegman's is the best!!!

@@christineherrmann205 Well, Indiana is practically next door, so it's an option.

As a data analyst, you should know that correlation does not necessarily equal causation.

@@Anon54387 How does that apply to my comment?

@@Pork-Chop-Express Ignore the redneck botnik. It is paid rubbles per character.

The fact that in the US spending is higher, yet outcomes are worse--that's a convincing argument for considering the systems elsewhere.

also safety, education and a general accepting of those different from yourself.

I think Feli is primarily concerned with easy access to firearms in the US. This is much more difficult in both Switzerland and the Czech Republic. With almost 28 privately owned guns per 100 inhabitants, Switzerland ranks fourth in Western Europe (after Finland, Austria and Norway) and 14th worldwide. The record is held by far by the USA - with more than 120 weapons per 100 inhabitants.

@@gerhardma4297yeah the ownership rate is lower but getting a gun in Switzerland is just as easy as in the US and even easier in some aspects. Canada is also pretty high as well as Serbia. But again it’s not about how easy it is to buy a gun. It’s about what people do with them. Also those numbers only count the overall number of guns and not how many people have at least one.

The main difference is demographics

@@Oda__Nobunaga yeah I meant the difference in the laws. The US has too many unstable people.

Actually she moved to the US in 2016 as she states at the start of every blog. However like many people in Europe ,they learn English in their schools. The learning is generally taught to US ENGLISH . I have cousins living in Europe and they all speak with the American accent. It sounds weird.As a frequent visitor there, I always found it unsettling to hear locals speak with an American accent.I live in Australia now and was always asked by the younger generation to say something in “Australian” as it sounds so different to the way they speak English. It’s a funny world we live in.

In most parts of Germany (everywhere except in areas next to the french border) English is a mandatory first foreign language we have to learn in school (For the french border areas it is/was English or French). I'm old and therefore (in the 1970s) english starts at 5th Grade (4 hours a week) until end of school (in my case 13th Grade - 9 years of english lessons). Nowadays they start with the "Second Language" earlier (3th Grade or even at first Grade in some states). When I was in school French was the second foreign language starting at 7th Grade but could be "de-selected" at 9th Grade (Realschule/Hauptschule - the Schools for more practical education like Craftmansship, Salesmen,...) and 4 Years of a second foreign language was only mandatory for Gymnasium (the school to prepare for University). Therefore my french is non existent anymore (except maybe "J'ai ne parle pas fraincais", "Merci" and "Pardon" and some word meanings that are common on french streets (Peage - Forgot where the accent was, interdit, Rappel, tout le directions, l'autre directions - very helpfull 🙂when you reach a T-Crossing and the sign says "Right all directions" and "Left the other directions" ). At my time the English we learned was the so called (BBC-English) - The English-Standard used by the BBC. But because of high american influence (Movies, Songs...) later the ones that still needed their school-english commonly got more and more americanized speaking. The ones that after school more or less never needed english anymore (Internet, streaming etc. cames 10 to 20 years after) forgot most of it. And yes most Germans have a problem with the "th" because we do not have such a sound in the german language (like many english speaking people have trouble with the hard german "R" or the German "sch" (it is not sk or sc it is more sh like in engliSH)).

@@DSP16569 Thanks for the info. That was very informative.