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Ahhh yes I remember those days.

Hahahaha no we suffered throughout it all. The healthcare system is a sham for real. They've known treatments that destroyed cancer without harmful side effects since before the 1950. And there are many many more effective treatments other than the medication they hand out like candy for a costly price on the pocket and health....

Research what medical benefits frequencies have. There are many . But cures don't suck profits . I'm a boomer and we hate it too.

I‘m telling you, the medical culture shock between GB and D is huge. Some negatives, yes, but omg how you can see a specialist in under a year is incredible!

Because MURICA FREEDUMB NUMBER ONE!!!🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲 HELTHCAREE IS COMMUNISM SOVIET UNION!!!

That's because they have the greatest education system as well ;)

If you can afford it, the US has excellent healthcare. However, healthcare is responsible for more bankruptcies in the US than any other country in the world. Its shameful.

Untill they move to European countries and realize there's (much) better because less expensive for the same or better quality

just like plp in Chinada also think that pffft

And did you pay 500k?

you added an additional 0. It should be US$ 50,000. But yeah, still expensive.

That's why only multimillionaires can afford healthcare in the US 😱

If you come to Argentina you can get it for free 😄

@@darthpapa696 how do you know its not 500k?

Then the desperate man shot the doctor and the judge gave him 30 years.

Or lost his kidney

@@shadymedic Exactly.

🤔 what would happen if you cant pay? I've seen before a website where you can have the whole cost written off. Also what if it's an emergency, like a shooting (which happens to often) or a getting run over? I doubt the hospital will just let you die, but most gang members don't have money.

@@sandrajones8245 I don't know how you could have the whole thing written off, and no, they won't let you die, but they'll still at least bill you for it. There probably is a lot that they just write off once they realize they aren't getting it, but then your credit takes a hit (not a concern for gang members, obviously), and if you do want to pay, you can appeal it within the hospital. They must settle a lot of the time with emergencies, but for non-emergency care, it's much harder, thus the large number of people asking for help on GoFundMe. Great system, isn't it?

"medical treatment for signs of depression", do they realise they have to treat her to even call it a treatment?

天呐！这也太扯了吧！大开眼界了

Yes, they treated here, by saying "have a nice day", it is a very expensive psychological treatment. (btw this explanation is also a treatment, if you read it you now own me 50$).

Was Mr. Crabs running the hospital.

that has to be a joke - like i would sue them in that case lol

When you think that your Murican doc has to make money to pay the loan for their medical studies 🤢 Sick and crazy system 🇺🇲

fast in and fast out again, minimal work for maximal benefit.

@@emcotec1463 Isn't that was capitalism is all about? Minimal efforts for the maximal gain is the creed of the greedy

@@Luziferne yes the raw form of capitalism, and US has it maxed in all aspects 😅

My husband just had a consultation with a hand doctor, three doctors show up and explain him the options they were only there for less than 15 minutes and one of the doctors didn’t even speak . He was bill for each doctor the insurance cover most of the consultation but without insurance the consultation alone would be around $600 per each doctor. He decided not to have surgery since they couldn’t guarantee him it would improve his condition plus the insurance was only willing to cover %35 of the surgery meaning it would cost us $35,000 thousand dollars out of pocket.

omg, the struggle is real 😅

@@RadicalLiving Yes it is! US healthcare has gone straight to hell, I should know, been working in it for 30 years.

OMG, I felt terrible reading what you've went through :(( I wish you never experience anything like that ever. What a terribly disgusting treatment you had!

That is inhumane.

Lies, they would've threw you in the room again

"Dying here will be very expensive" too 💀

🤣😂😅

They’ll just send the bill to your estate and suck it dry before your family sees any of it.

Nah more like concerned about getting a law suit. This is probably one of the factors that led to Americans being obsessed with suing people. They need to make some of that money back somehow. 🙄

Freedom and Democracy

@@koschmx I know Germany isn't perfect. I also know the US are worse

@@koschmx Yeah duh, but you get charged a lot of money for basic serious problems and for more than in Europe. USA just seems like a mess tbh.

The scenario in US it would be you take your child to the ER. Doc sees it, gives them lollipop and sends you home. The bill is sent to the insurance and two months later you pay whatever is left.( copay). People can bash uS healthcare all they want, but healthcare is not only nosebleeds and general check up. It is studies and research, which requires money. Most breakthroughs are in US for the very same reason. If you have allergies- you are better off in Canada( or Europe), if you have cancer( like I do),you are better off in US. Capisco?

In highschool senior year i got this heart palpitations and had problems breathing. I live in a low income family. Anyway i was sent to the hospital by ambulance 3 times and i should say that they never figured it out and wouldn't say anything to me. I would ask and ask and ask and got nothing from the doctor's. The emergency response team told me the onlt thing i know. The middle of my heart was swollen and stressed. That was it. All this for a few thousand. We didnt eat much food after this. It has gotten better though

@@mylist0song wtf did you just say canada is in europe?? also even if its a bit better in the US, i would still go in a hospital here in germany so i can live my life if i beat cancer and dont have to sleep under a bridge and get foot stamps

WIE!! 😊 Ich weiß, dass es möglich ist, meine Schwester bekommt jede Woche immer 40.000, ich würde mich freuen, wenn du mir zeigst, wie man damit umgeht.

Nachdem ich bis zu 300.000 mit Frau Valerie Anne Yarvin gehandelt hatte. Ich habe ein neues Haus gekauft und kann jetzt meine Kinder dank Frau Angela Cole Carr auf eine bessere Schule in den Staaten schicken. Wenn jemand direkt mit dem ist, was er oder sie tut, werden die Leute immer für sie sprechen.

Ich habe viel über Handel und Investitionen mit Frau Valerie Anne Yarvin gehört, wie gut sie ist und wie sie Menschen durch Investitionen geholfen hat

True. But the worst part is that there is a live cap, usually at $2 Million. If you need medical assistance, that $2 Million can be reached before your 50s birthday and then it's 100% on you.

In Germany, there would be a co-payment (with statutory insurance) of 10€ per day in hospital ... for a maximum of 28 days in a year. So the maximum co-payment would be 280€, about 300$. With private insurance, the co-payments differs between the different companies and between different insurance plans from each company, but it will be probably capped to not more than some hundred or a few thousand Euros per year.

hahaha omg thanks for sharing 😂

They really thought it was probably $300 XD

Yes we Americans are terrified of someone calling an ambulance if we are dying in the street because we know we can never afford to pay off that ambulance ride to the hospital, and the bill (often several hundred thousand dollars) will kill us. So sometimes better to just die in the street. I worked in a “charity” hospital and even that place presented indigent patients with bills of several hundred dollars after very minor treatment. America is an insane place. We never got over the Cold War and I don’t know if we will ever be able to fix these problems.

OMG! That sounds horrible! They ran away while he was bleeding hard, after taking the glass from his head himself?! That's so crazy! I mean, his friend could have done that and they didn't need to go to the hospital in the first place. 😅 But I have to say that I'm also quite surprised the glass in your bus stops aren't the safe ones that crash into a million pieces that don't cut people. It seems quite dangerous for you to have those outside...😕

@@alva--._..l-._.-l.._.-- true, normally the foil should keep shards in, i dont know if they have it there?

How much do you pay in taxes though. Yes, I know said taxes probably go further than the amount most Americans pay for their insurance and that you probably get a better deal out of the Swedish system, but most high-income Americans pay a smaller percentage of their income on insurance than they would lose from the extra taxes the Swedish system requires. As such, in America the healthcare debate is spilt between the rich and poor, with the rich fearing high taxes while the poor support single payer healthcare because the extra taxes would likely be at or below the percentage of their income that they spend on insurance anyways. The middle class is split on the issue but generally supports the status quo, which is insure in this case. Personally, I think that a single payer healthcare system in the United States won't work, and that more effort should instead be directed at curtailing the worst excesses of the healthcare industry, specifically the high costs of medicine and bullshit charges the hospitals often give out, but nothing is really being done about it either way so the whole situation is just infuriating. Sorry for the rant, have a good day.

@@andrewlechner6343 valid points mate

@@andrewlechner6343 Nope. Cost of life here is made to be post-tax so it's as if we have not earned that tax in the first place. Sure, we pay tax but the prices are waaaay lower to compensate.

@@andrewlechner6343 wrong … changing your mind serves no purpose for anyone so don’t believe me i guess but just know you’re wrong as fuck. over 70% of americans want medicare for all while the rest seems to be republicans…. so you’re probably in that group of weirdos im guessing….

@@andrewlechner6343 The thing is that even if we ignored the ethical side of the issue (we shouldn't BTW), single-payer system is far more efficient on a strictly financial level, with only a minimal percentage of insurance money going to administrative, legal and marketing/PR costs. Also, American system encourages hospitals and pharmaceutical companies to drive up prices to an insane level. I mean sure, you can try to curtail the latter by regulations within the current system, but why not just switch to a tried and tested solution that largely eliminates this problem?

Unbelievable...

They or the estate?

When I first read an article of a US citizen fighting doctors who wanted to take him into an ambulance after a car-accident, I thought it was satire. Now I know he just didn´t want his next 3 generations to owe money to the hospital.

@@unnamed1613 No sir, it is common for Americans to avoid the ambulance and its 10k bill. My dad snapped his ankle at our house so we drove him ourselves. An ambulance prolly could arrive quicker and administer pain meds to make his ride more pleasant, but it wasn't worth the bill.

@@HawaiiDEEPS it was like 5 years ago that I found out driving to the hospital in your own car or a taxi instead of an ambulance, is *not* a movie thing and that's actually pretty common in the US, I was shocked. I'm still shocked to this day tbh. Still hoping that it will change.

i gueess you might want to fake having that sickness again , you know ; more money. just kidding.

😅

Are you American?

So cool, true care of people!!!

50 euros that's robbing you

Move out, Man!

Get a passport and go to Mexico/Thailand/Turkey/some eastern European country

​@Robbi GrimmFellow It would probably be cheaper to taka few days off and fly to another country to get checked out than go to an american hospital. And as for "liking" americans there's a big industry in many countries around foreigners coming in for cheap healthcare.

@Robbi GrimmFellow what are ya talking about ya wanker,since when Muricans are not welcomed in Europe?you are welcome in EU.Sell out,move out to somewhere in EU,buy a house,find a job,and voila :D

@Robbi GrimmFellow You are being too pessimistic. No one hates a common man just because u are from US.

“American healthcare sucks” That is a more basic fact than “Dead people are dead”

Maybe move out of the country before the system sues you?

@@MITHRIL_GOD I'm sorry my comment didn't live up to your expectations.

​@Smiling Shadow Well you'd be wrong. No I didn't end up in an ER. It was pre-approved well before the surgery. The denial came 2 weeks after the surgery. Now it's at the hospital system's legal department (or farmed out law firm) to collect from me. Yes I will be hiring an attorney....which is a complete f'king waste of my time and money. It's also perfectly designed to ensure the health insurance corporation passes as much of the cost of healthcare right back on their policy holders. In US healthcare shareholders matter not policy holders.

@@RuleofFive I recommend you to find a job in Europe and move here, even without anything, just you paying everything out flat, it will still be much cheaper here, since governments here keep the prices cheap so they don't get bankrupt paying the public healthcare.

That's messed up on a whole other level.

Freedom and Democracy.

I'm pretty sure even in the US that's still fraud

Wtf I thought they were democratic

It's a regular mafia. Don't people in usa have enough guts to oppose to that?

Damn

And the situation would be the same today

Fortunatly M*rica doesn't exist

@@_eyevis it's not us had some of the worst health care and I mean how much they actually care for patients they care more about money

Of course they would. How do they know if he could afford the expendive medical cost.

In Romania it's worse. We pay a lot of taxes for healthcare when adjusted to our incomes, then the doctor of the state funded hospital says "I can't do anything for you here, you have to come to my private hospital.". And our best doctors go West anyway when they are thirty years old.

I'm German and often think our healthcare system is horrible compared to other countries...

@@brinkiTOgo Sadly it's not. It can't compete with filthy rich smaller states such as Switzerland or Norway, but it's the best system I know for a state of 50 Million people +. France, Brits, Italy, USA, all worse.

@@Cloney1337 But why forcing the hospitals to make profit? That's a horrible idea in my opinion. And having a private insurance system isn't really sensible either. I lived in Japan for a year and was in hospital there (just one day though) and needed to visit a doctor several times. There were people standing around just to help you immediately. Everything seemed new and modern. They had one insurance for everyone (richer people had to pay more). I paid less in Japan for a full insurance than I do in Germany as a student and here the student's insurance is just a light version without some basic social benefits that are mandatory for everyone else. Of course there are worse systems. But that doesn't mean ours is the best we could have

@@peter130476 Well Romania it's a big exception to it. That's why it's ranked the lowest in EU Healthcare

Part of the problem is, America is super saturated by far-right think tanks which influence mass opinion through literal propaganda. Paired with pretty bad educational standards, especially in right-wing states, the people who actively oppose universal healthcare (which is a large number) have never actually read the data or research demonstrating its social and financial benefits. They just call it "socialism", and that is enough to dissuade them from thinking any further about the benefits.

Sorry to say, but. Whole health care system in Germany is private. Is just under strict gov regulation :)

@@hirondelle8734 because they are naive and brainwashed by propaganda lobbies.

@@Aesandar The insurance system is primarily socialized. Socialized healthcare does not mean that private hospitals and medical locations cannot be privitized. It means that the method of paying for these services is funded through taxes and distributed by the government.

@@jennosyde709 and this is nothing more then I wrote. But still. Health care in Germany is looong Privatized. Sozialized aspects of it are nothing more then strict gov regulations of basic healt insurance and direct Subsidies to it. Even USA have part of healt system done this way. There are quite a few of states owned hospitals and quite few of Socialized healt insurance programs ;) every one do this. Most of Europe use this form as a primary policy, USA need to work on it yet.

omg that's so crazy 🤯

Or people that stay in unhappy marriages because they can’t afford to lose coverage from their spouse’s insurance

How is healthcare in Canada?

@@bearhapps3245 not perfect but i doubt anything would be anyways, depending on what is needed we can have really long wait times for a specialist (which can even hit years !) usually its not for life saving issues but that doesnt mean that you will always be caught on time and that what was not lethal wont become it later down the road. Mental health care is also on the "very long" side in the "public" . they will usually give priority to people in state of emergency... You have the opportunity of going to the private for both physical and mental health but in this case, it will cost you. On other times things can move pretty fast and i do appreciate not having to mortgage anything in order to get a cast for a broken arm or getting surgery. Had an inguinal hernia back in 2013 or 14 and from the first call to get to see my doc for "something off on my lower abdomen" to being done with surgery, it took 2 months and that was during the Xmass holidays. For medication (i am in Quebec) you can get on the public regime if you dont work which pays a portion of your medication. You have to pay up to a certain point and the rest is at no cost. People on welfare dont pay for most of them (or minimally). As for dental and optometrist, if i remember well they arent on the public healthcare for most adults (i THINK elderlies are covered, but its not free) so you have to pay out of pocket for them. If you have insurance with your job (which in my case i pay around 50$ every 2 weeks and that GREATLY varies from a place to another) you can have additional perks (example, i got X amount for optometrist and 80% covered at the dentist up to a certain amount) and a percentage off paramedical treatments (like chiropractors, massotherapies) up to a certain amount. Obviously the pandemic has put a huge strain on the medical field both in staff being overworked and "dropping left and right" and in increasing the wait time by putting aside things that were "less important" to focus on the shitshow that has been happening for the past two years. The system is far from being perfect with too many problems. But as i said above, i value not having to sell one of my kidney to treat the other. People will say "yeah but you pay a LOT in taxes" . Yup, i am in the 30% bracket but when i see what people south of the border pay in taxes and in their own insurance.... and ABOVE that are STILL hit with thousands in bills??? yeah i'll sit on my 30% ....

In germany you often overwrite your property years before actual inheritance because elderly care is poorly covered and the state demands you liquidate most assets before he steps in. You know why?Because in a very unsmart move german state chose to privatise it's elderly homes. Care quality dropped and prices went wild since then,but in return investors profit on elder care now. Health Care truly is one of the markets where more regulation is better regulation.

Or C: you just don't go to the hospital and die

I’ll take C: go to Europe for the same price and staying

or start to cook some blue meth

Let's be real here tho. When is the last time you have seen an healthy american.

@@jofloch9955 The fat American is actually a stereotype, where I am anyways, as there are other countries becoming just as fat.

I got into a snowboarding accident some years back and after I was healed and the ordeal was over I kept having recurring nightmares about unexpected injuries and having to visit an E.R. (American btw)

I grow frustrated with listening to all this. Everyone thinks if u get sick in the US you go to debtors prison. The US probably spends and wastes more money on healthcare in 4 weeks than the NHS budget for a year. Most workers in the US can and do get healthcare through their employer. There are holes in the US system that u can fall through if you're the working poor or u fail to get health insurance. Here it's ur responsibility to get it. Most healthcare plans in the US have a maximum amount the individual pays out in the event of some catastrophic event. So people with insurance rarely find themselves millions in debt. What u read about are the exceptions. The US is just too big and diverse for a UK type system. From a personal perspective I do not want the level of socialism present in many european countries here in the US it would be costly and cumbersome having the government manage all those projects. In addition to governmental intrusion in our lives.

@@ShenandoahTim You see, in Europe we don't have those exceptions in the first place.

@@diablo.the.cheater Neither do I because I have a job and health insurance.

@@ShenandoahTim Healthcare is for everyone, not just people who can afford it or get it through their job. Everyone has a right to access healthcare. The US is the only developed country without free or universal healthcare in the world, so is not accessible to everyone. Maybe a system like we have in the UK wouldn't work, but surely something could be organized, many other countries have different systems which may be more suitable. The US by far has the largest military spending budget in the world, maybe instead it could put some of that money into creating affordable healthcare that is more accessible. What the US spends on its military is over six times what we spend on the NHS. For me I don't really feel that the government is intruding into my life by funding our healthcare, but I guess that's more of a personal issue. If you're that worried about the government intruding into your life I'm surprised you're on the internet at all.

taking a flight to Europe, even with 1 accompagning parent, would probably still worth it in comparison...

Shite! Unbelievable...

I had the exact same fracture when I was 8. My mom had to leave work to pick me up in school and drive to me to the ER. Not only we didn’t have to pay anything, my mom even got compensated by the insurance company for missed hours in work

@@thekestrel4836 :,) wow ig the medical system makes childhood a lot more interesting

@@kolerick a 12+ hour flight with both forearm bones completely broken through and dislocated sounds like I won't make it through security, but at least the x-ray is free

Wait you pay for college?

@@heitorpedrodegodoi5646 not directly for college, but for the apartment, the food, the train etc

@@mathilderondel8124 oH

Vitale card is very good though. I love it

free education in my country too, but u also get around 800 dollars each month from the goverment while u in collage, so u can pay for food and a small appartement.

Well, paying for amputation actually makes sense - it's not like the guilotine the arm off and that's that. It's just that everything else around it is crazy. 25 k? Let's say a staff of 8 people (doctors, nurses, technicians) works five hours on that (bone, muscles etc. would have to be cut cleanly and sutured, everything has to be sterile ...) and let's count another 2 wages for the room, machinery, tools and so on. Then you'd still end up with 500$ /hour wages. I don't even believe that the doctors would earn that much, much less the nurses.

@@Julia-lk8jn Please, tell me that you are being sarcastic...

@@Julia-lk8jn or maybe just get something to disinfect it, like a small surgery for a cleaning and disinfecting then cover up with bandages? What the person said above better be true. That or your dumb, crazy or a troll. Well maybe a kid as well

- Doc, left hand amputation! - Wzzz! Done. Next patient! - Doc, right hand amputation! - Wzzz! Done. Next patient! - Doc, left leg amputation! - Wzzz! Done. - Doc, I said LEG! - Wzzz! Done. - Doc, I said LEFT!

25k is a lot yes. And cutting off the arm is probably WAY over board for what was going on yes. But it's not as simple as chopping off the arm. It's a VERY intense procedure where they go in and have to close off every single blood vessel individually. Then they sew the outside skin together nicely etc etc etc etc etc. It's at least 4 people in the room doing various things.

Dutch healthcare too.

Nothing is free. It is paid in advanced with your taxes.

Me too, in my office a sneeze is enough to get you two weeks off. 😆

Sie ist großartig, perfekt und ein Genie. Ich habe T0 162.050 $ Handel erfunden.

Ich habe viel über Handel und Investitionen mit Frau Valerie Anne Yarvin gehört, wie gut sie ist und wie sie Menschen durch Investitionen geholfen hat

Boxes full of free medication? Nope. Ten years ago maybe, but it's out-dated. I've been to plenty of doctors in the last couple of years, and I once got two pills of pain killer at the dentist. Not sure why they felt a need to exaggerate that bit; it's not like the contrast wasn't strong enough as is.

Ditto. As an american, the absolute support of the germans for their social services, where they're all in solidarity, seems so foreign to me. The other thing I've noticed is the anti-patriotic movement that has been prevalent in the US for about the last 20 years doesn't exist here. People can profess support for their country without getting crucified. Where many in the US see their country as deeply flawed.

The german healthcare system compared to others in Europe isn’t even that good. I think its crazy how Americans view any kind of healthcare system that doesn’t put you in debt for the rest of your life as the best thing in the world… America is literally a third world country imo

Don't worry, we Germans also see our country as deeply flawed.

And if the stars don't align it's 230x

@@rkan2 jumping from a cliff seems a better at this point

Your issues weren't profitable enough for hum

Oh, no. Door knob manners instead of bed site manners.

Hello there, how are you doing?

same issue in Germany. Doctors in personal clinics get paid for each patient, so they are incetivized to work quickly

It’s more like “paid in advance”

You believe that the hospital did _not_ know that? that was just a knee-jerk "nobody comes in here without paying, we don't care what". If somebody walked in there just to ask for a way to the next bus stop, I would not take a bet on it that someone wouldn't charge him for that.

I got charged 500$ to be talked out of killing myself. Literally the man said "are you feeling better?“ “yeah" "okay, let me go grab the invoice. Sign here please."

It took me a minute to understand in the first episodes.

I wonder how popular the show is abroad in countries where they have universal healthcare 🤣😂🤣🤣

That show would not make sense if America had free healthcare

@@calebreese2311 the viewers would be totally confused 😂😂🤣

@@anaz5918 I guess if there’s one single plus about the American healthcare system, it’s that it gave us a phenomenal show

I was brought by ambulance to a hospital about 5PM for appendicitis ultimately as it turns out, there was a major accident with known fatality (probably someone important or rich) they held up the emergency room for hours trying to revive the deceased.. I was finally seen, given an epidural, doctors couldn't tell if it was diverticulitis or appendicitis, sent me for a cat scan, within the hour I was admitted to a room without knowing what it was, 5:00 comes and a surgeon wakes me up and said I won't be getting breakfast as he will need me to have a empty stomach for a appendectomy. I still had employers coverage months before Medicare was to kick in, thankfully our plan at that time was no charge for ER with admission, no charge for the hospital either, ambulance covered too. The VA cross-honored my prescriptions and issued them instantly. Now it's a different story on Medicare, the disability plan I was on with that employer changed my Medicare to something different since they were self insured at the time. Now with the VA I have to go to the VA to not get charged for a ER visit and that's 50 miles away, if I use ambulance I get stuck with the bill. Towns about 25 miles away have band-aid quality hospitals, enough to stabilize you and transfer you

also private insurance in Germany is pretty nice especially once you’re old it makes more sense if you can afford it.

Exactly

Still pretty close to US amounts when all is said and done. I'm a US/German citizen, but I work for a large US corporation (80k+ employees) and this is how it breaks down for one of the most "cost effective" (CDHP) policies. Strap in for this one: 5% to 10% Gross are typical insurance premiums Minimum $3500 out of pocket annually for an individual, $7500 for family. This means I pay the first $3500 of my medical care, dollar for dollar at a "discounted" insurance negotiated rate. Hint: It's still bullshit. Because of this minimum out of pocket, many opt for an HSA. In this case, assume you're contributing at least the minimum $3500 annually to the HSA. Your new total out of pocket likely well exceeds the 7.3% of Germany if you have a median US income of ~$68,000/year. What's worse is the older plans which didn't have high out of pocket expenses have even higher premiums. You would pay almost 15% of your gross for these plans... and you still have to pay a "copay", or small fee each time you go to the doctor. And this doesn't even get into the quality of care or cost of care... America is just flat out fucked when it comes to healthcare, and the system is broken. I think its something everyone in this country can agree about. Insurance companies are scams, doctors are scams, the entire thing is a scam to fleece you out of your money.

To give a quick example of the costs / quality of care: I had my appendix removed earlier this year. The hospital and doctors combined charged ~$49,000 for the procedure. I was in the hospital for a total of 9 hours from when I stepped into the ER, to when I left the building. I blew through my entire out of pocket in 9 hours. POOF, ~10% of your gross gone. Why only 9 hours? It was more cost effective to insurance to have me do it outpatient then get admitted for a few days afterwards. My family in Germany was shocked how quick they let me leave. I'd argue most could blow through their minimum out of pocket + premiums every year without even blinking an eye. That money is just gone, and the care that goes with it is trash for the most part.

Out of curiosity, do German state insurance plans tend to cover all medical procedures a person might need, or are they selective in which procedures they offer?

That's the kind of insurance you have. I'm guessing if you paid the bill and turned it in you would be reimbursed. I had this kind of insurance. My daughter's doctors visits were free for the 4 years. What they didn't tell you (my daughter's doctor told me) they expect you to pay for the bill on your own and then send the insurance proof the bill and proof you paid for it. I was basically doing the insurance companies paperwork.

Here in India, the doctor takes no more than 150 rupees (2$) and gives half of the medicine himself for free. Can go to any generic medical and buy the prescription medicine for cheap. And this is not even the governmental healthcare, which is a bit slow, but absolutely free. Also have some major companies running their own hospitals for cancer which are also free of cost to the public. Never have to go to a private hospital unless you are dying and the other hospitals do not have the resources to treat you.

funny, because us citizens pay one of the most if not the highest taxes percentage, in the whole world. and they have this system, where if you live and work abroad, they will still charge you for taxes. they call it the american dram lol

@@vidyasagardaud8518 maybe where you live...it's hideously expensive in Mumbai. Rs 500 for a consult by a GP, Rs 800 - 1000 for an average specialist. This does not include costs of procedures, testing or medicines. And even consultation fees can be more for the more noted docs. Considering the disparity in incomes in the US and here, treatment costs here are quite high as well. And the thing is that they didn't used to be. This has started with the corporatisation of healthcare, a copy of the US model. We seriously need more government and municipal hospitals. There is a scheme to have one in every district, with a medical college attached. I hope it happens soon.

Living in Switzerland and can agree with this. We have good medical institutions and insurance is mandatory, but it's super expensive and doesn't cover everything at all. When you don't want to go to the doctor because you know it'll cost you too much, there is clearly a problem.

That's the price for a delivery without surgery... if you are lucky.

@@frankgdproducer4413 Warnung: crypto scam.

@@jamewilliams7660 crypto scam, the second.

Ihr guter Ruf spricht bereits für sie im letzten Monat, ich habe über 100.000 Dollar mit ihr investiert und ich habe bereits über 250.000 Dollar Gewinn gemacht.

@@patronjustice9710 and another account pushing a crypto scammer.

It’s pretty much like that in all of Europe, Italy, France, Spain…

Americans would love almost any other countries' systems in comparison!

@@MrHarumakiSensei well no, it really depends on the system for me. I want a system that provides the poor but allows business to prosper, that’s where Germany does extremely well.

Goverment for the people, not the few.

​@@Sebman1113 well europe or almost every country that is member of the european union allows business to prosper and has got a good health care system. america would be a way better country if you would not be afraid of getting a serious illness and and being homeless afterwards cuz you can´t pay the bills for the treatment. but system means that the taxes increases a lot and we in germnay paying arround 45% of our income to the state and for the social secure system. if you don´t need that it sucks but if you need it it´s a treasure.

And that's WITH insurance.... -_-

My husband came down with a neurological condition three years ago the amount of medical bills insurance refused to pay is ridiculous. Including physical therapy and occupational therapy the only think it save us from being bankrupt was our savings and the fact my husband was a high earner but the majority of people don’t have those options and can easily bankrupt them. It makes me sick to my stomach that a country so wealthy refuses to help their own citizens. My “poor” “third world country “ even offers universal healthcare for all citizens with inexpensive life savings medications even if you opt for private care system still affordable compared to the USA.

Be American. Pay $400/month for health insurance when healthy. Go broke when sick. Tips fedora.

I know people who have refused to taken to the hospital by ambulance when they were injured and called an Uber instead.

@@MrSloika 🥲

In most locations in the Us, ambulances are private companies. It would be nice if they were turned into municipal services in the US. When I lived in Germany, my Porsche caught on fire while driving. The fire department put out the fire, The fire department sent me a bill.

@@Leucoandro How much was the bill?

@@gwarlow I think it was about 475€. It was about 17 years ago.

But it’s payed via Taxes

@@Mgameing123 actually taxes and health care are separate. Both are paid for automatically out of your salary tho. Unless you are in between jobs then you have to pay the health insurance people whatever the fuck they want. This one time my friend was put of a job for 3 months and they demanded more than my friend had ever made by working all for those 3 months.

@@salinora0 Ok but the healthcare funded by Taxes is more cheaper as its not for profit!

Yeah but in Germany and in most european states , the costs are not overinflated. The same thing that cost 50 000 $ in US is just 10 or sometimes 20 time less. Whoever pays it , taxes or patient or insurance do not matter. The core problem in the US is the astonomical costs of basic stuff. Not the "you pay everything yourself". If the procedures were at a reasonnable price , a lot more US citizens would be able to afford it. And not get addicted to opioids and die at 45 because surgery is not affordable.

In germany the insurance is also not bound to your job. If you wish you can stay in one and the same your entire life and during the times you have no job, it will get paid by the social system.

"Breaking Bad" TV series was only possible in the U.S. 🤔

or die faster care.. if you can‘t pay or save anything

@@scofield321 I had to sell my house and empty my 401k. Total cost to live to date 930,000. It’s NUTS.

Do you have some documentation/blog/vlog about this? I would be very interested in reading!

@@rkan2 in the US, the NIH has published a few case studies citing mitigation of symptoms in two pediatric patients . These patients were hospitalized with hereditary Alpha tryptasemia and reaching end of life. They were there to “try anything” to not due . Both patients received transplants and both recovered . This was 20 years ago . I have pots /veds( Marfans ) and mast cell . Was told I had less than 5 years to live after I awoke from a coma post arrhythmia dvt and sepsis. I tried ivig and chemotherapeutics but didn’t work . Decided to use adipose lipoaspirate homologous stem cell transplants based on what I read about these two case studies . I had nothing left . It was this or hospice . I went to a drs office and did the procedure under local. They took the stem cells and sent to lab ,replicated in vitro ,and froze . After several transplants, about a year later , the Supreme Court of the state of Florida adjudicated the use of cryopreservation with homologous adipose based stem cells to be illegal as the stem cells were classified as a drug due to a stabilizer . A sugar stabilizer was added to the blood product to stabilize it, and henceforth , just like ivig , it is now classified as a drug . The fda dragged the stem cell company to court and bankruptcy by claiming the owner of the company was not using doctors that were up to par educationally with the use of the product. This was based on one case where the patient was using stem cells for retinopathy and went blind after use … BUT she was going blind anyway. (Sometimes disease has proliferated past the point of mitigation ) Further investigation of the financials shows the company only paid medical payments on the claim . This means there was no liability on the stem cell companies end . Per our tissue bank agreements all stem cells could be seized and used for clinical trial if they can or are no longer being used . We all lost ours, and the case went to appeal . In communicating with the stem cell company ( they were fantastic and ethical on my end ) the owner of the company suggested a hyperbaric chamber to increase circulating stem cells . That was all I could do next . I started @ 1.3 ata over 90 minutes with 10l of 02 via cannula 3 years ago . Use an oxyhealth vitaeris. Rx through regenerative medicine . I use this modality almost daily with the superhuman protocol (EWOT PEMF infrared light . I’m walking again , my ckd is improved and my heart failure is on the line between failure and” pretty bad” I also gained 40 delightful pounds… Yaay ! I should be dead . I’m better than I was 10 years ago . Dr Neil Riordian wrote a book called Stem Cells : The Rising Tide. (Purchase on Amazon ) Currently the procedure can be done in Panama over a weekend . Joe Rogan Mel Gibson and more use him . Joes podcast has him on for a full interview if you want to hear him speak . Dr Rs book is loaded with citations. For hyperbarics, you will only see studies as they relate to traumatic brain injury , not mixed connective tissue or vascular issues . The studies have not been done due to cost and institutional limitations . If you need more info let me know

7k for amoxicillin?!!!, in Argentina you can get premium quality amoxicillin for $5 USD in the drug store, if you go to the public hospital it's free. if you go to a fancy state of the art private hospital, it cost you less than a $40 USD, if you don't have insurance. You yanks have a serious national threat there, for what all the stories I read, about your healthcare system, you could be more safe in Ukraine right now than in a US hospital...

@@quantumshadow4218 Same in Brazil. We even have "Farmácia Popular" to give insuline, heart medicine, etc for free for people who can't afford it.

@@fabricioazevedo2361 verdade? Wow, aqui o insulin é $200

@@shadowsinmymind9 Even if you wish some thing better (like a insuline pump) you would pay around US$30 or 40. The monster in our presidence - Bolsonora, the Brazilian Trump- tried to cut down The Farmácia Popular program. Our Supreme Court didn't allowed it.

I agree about unnecessary ops.

As someone whose wife works as neurologist in a hospital and also recently gave birth to our baby boy (natural way, pregnancy without complications) I cannot agree with you. I guess that might be the case in some clinics but let's not generalize and say it is like that everywhere.

Same in France, with less and less hospitals, with fewer and fewer healthcare workers 😱 The reason why they were on strike yesterday

C-section are unnecessary you say??? It's less painful. Are you a Dr.? No, your an dummy on YT. What's with you crazy men trying to force your male hysteria on women? Stop forcing yourself on women and let the Dr. handle it. Pregnancy is painful but also a very delicate situation that can be dangerous, even fatal, to women without modern medicine. My god are they trying to police women's treatments in your Europe also??!! I'm so disappointed about this comment from an "educated" European.

@@LaureninGermany Lauren! 😃

And not to mentions therapists that can be up to a year if your unlucky

It is not uncommon for Canadians to go to the US for cancer treatment. They often have to wait 6 month in Canada just to get seen by a specialist. If they fly down to US, they can start treatment within a week.

@@matthewpaine6908 and go bankrupt in the same week

@@zerozertr555 that was good

@@Algenhirn Oh yeah, them too

So glad!

Hope for you it will get better someday! Love from Germany

@@EvaLieblich If I move to Germany it would get better...

42 grand for stitches and one night in hospital!!?? You could have flown to Thailand first class, spent a night in a top private hospital, then 3 more months partying hard at a beach resort, then flown back, all for less money.

So... Did you paid 4.200 Usd? How much was you monthly fee? 5000? Sorry I'm not native so I'm not sure if I understood right. And I hope you are better now.

With that $42,000 USD you could have flown a random European/Asian country, get a job and insurance, and get stitches for free 💀

@@zerozertr555 well, they didn’t pay 42,000

You had to pay 10% of the $42,000, which totals it to 4,200. Then, considering the fact you had to pay the $5000 deductible, it should be $9,200 in total. No, Sir Galahad did not have to pay the entire $42,000 hospital bill.

its still better

There is a cap in the public health insurance. The max is currently 770 EUR per month. The employee pays 50% of it (deducted from salary), the other half is paid by the employer. So, it is 4620 max for an employee. And if you have kids and a wife/husband that do not earn their own money, then they are also included in the insurance.

Happy I saw this comment

Till it's their turn to pay huge medical bills and go bankrupt

to be honest though, the German part isn't entirely true. the doctor wouldn't give you the medication but write you a prescription. In this case you have to pay a 5 euro fee at the pharmacy. And it would be very much illegal to write a sick note if the patient isn't sick.

@@chrstiania Fun fact: The prescription system dates back to the Holy Roman Empire where the emperor at the time (I don't quite remember which one it was) prohibited doctors from selling medicine to prevent quackery. Instead, they had to write a prescription for the apothecary and the patient collected their medication there. Just like we do nowadays. Some sources even suggest that ancient Romans used a similar system as well.

@@UserJWR interesting

@@chrstiania It’s supposed to be funny so you need to be overdramatic

I've heard that Obama Care has been cut down a lot from the original idea and now all that's left is an empty shell. This was on purpose to deter Americans from proper health care.

I remember seeing a case where an Amish girl who did not have insurance was billed 1 million dollars to receive a lung transplant to save her life. It was actually insane.

@@jennosyde709 oh gosh, that is so insane!

Correction 10k dollars more

@@Monkejjj Haha man - resucitating someone I bet starts at 10k$ for maybe one hit on the defib!! Bet it would end up way past 100k$ when you actually get out of the door.

@@rkan2 cpr at 25k minimum every mouth to mouth 30k extra

I'd kill that pet and call it a day

Parvo is pretty much a death sentence. Whenever buying a puppy, the first thing you should do is take them to the vet for the vaccine. Last I checked it cost less than $35 to vaccinate against Parvo. That was years ago though.

Thats great to hear, Greetings from Osnabrück👍

@@maik5750 Omg I'm in Münster!

@@sophiapriest That's really cool 😄also a nice City

welcome Greetings from Lake Constance🙋‍♂️

@@arnodobler1096 Ah hello! Lake Constance seems like a nice place!

Hello there, how are you doing?