Shattered my knee in an accident, ambulance takes me to hospital then transported to another hospital because that’s where the specialist is, had two surgeries and it didn’t cost me anything, now I receive 80% of my salary until I’m able to return to work. This is right of every New Zealand citizen
@@barack_mobamba4873 Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control." Medical care IS A RIGHT. You have the right to adequate medical care, and denying that is denying a person of their human rights.
I had my first severe panic attack and thought I was severely sick so I drove myself to the hospital in Miami, I sat on the ER bed for 30 minutes and started to feel better, I left without treatment and was charged 1,200$. Without. Treatment.
Get a humifider and lavender and rub it around your neck take a cold shower and try to calm down with soft music I had my 2 panic attack didn’t even go to the dr cause I knew they weren’t gonna do nothing don’t have insurance either.
Olku ain’t nothing good here unless your poor and have multiple kids and the government takes care of you middle class here is like a sin cause we have it the hardest .
Are you kidding???? in sweden you would have paid at the most 350kronor wich is like 35$ And id you needed a heart surgery 35$ doesnt matter the issue 35$ is the most we pay
I met an american he told me he had planned to undergo a teeth surgery to take out 2 teeth for about 3500$ but instead he bought a ticket trough a college he knew and came to Turkey to undergo that same surgery + had a vacation in an 5 star hotel for 5 days for less then 1500$
Heath Blasted ~ No, that's an accurate statement. Most anyone can quickly make a reasonable guess at what a loaf of bread will cost. Without looking it up, how many do you think can accurately guess what an MRI costs? A liter of AB Neg blood? A liver biopsy? And exactly how do you go about comparison shopping those "consumer items"? The weekly ads in the paper and monthly mailers? Maybe a Groupon? I would say that it is your offhand dismissal of Mr Dhar's metaphor that is glib, sir.
Yes that’s true. If we need any major surgery or even to have wisdom teeth removed we go to Thailand. The plane ticket is about 1300$ US the whole procedure with medicine is about 50$. To do that here and pay cash I got quoted anywhere from 7,000-15,000$ we save a fortune by going to Thailand for stuff like that. My family member had to get a liver transplant it cost $10,000 American cash in Thailand here it would have cost $200,000. What’s funny too is the hospitals there are nicer than the ones here I’ve been to. This place is a company not a country
@@ibrahimatraore061 what’s your monthly premium? Even if it’s only $20 a month that’s still $240 a year plus you paid $3500 out of pocket. A round trip ticket with hotel food everything is still a fraction of the price going to Thailand you’ll pay maximum 2k for everything the other $500 you can live like a king for a month take an awesome vacation ride elephants take private boat tours and still come home with an extra $500 In your pocket. Now if we had universal healthcare you could just go and get anything done medically at no cost. The problem is with the private healthcare here
What’s worse is people can’t afford doctor visits and hold off going to the doctor until their health is so far gone. At that point your pretty much handed a death sentence.
Jose David 1507 Yep. There are tons of stories where someone is having a medical emergency and they don’t want to call an ambulance out of fear that they won’t be able to afford it.
When I was new to America, I was involved in an accident. My friends called an ambulance and I was taken to hospital. I was discharged a day later and I had to pay $5000.03 ($1000 being ambulance cost). I still don't understand the 3 cents after they ripped me off. Now I know better, I have saved others from calling for an ambulance. Never go hospital in America unless your condition is critical
America's healthcare genuinely terrifies me. I live in Europe and I once broke my leg. I was driven into the hospital, and my leg was casted and I was let go for free (it was paid for by the NHS). I can't imagine being on holiday in America and breaking my leg by accident and paying thousands for just that
It’s embarrassing to me as an American. Backwards uneducated rural country people would say that “it’s not free because you pay so much more taxes” or that government involvement “takes away freedoms”, because apparently being American means not paying taxes LOL. I live in a country of so many ignorant people.
I broke my leg once as a teen, but I did not go to the doctor because of the cost. My mom created a makeshift cast, fed me lots of calcium, and I took it easy for a few months. I also gave birth to my son at home. When healthcare is so expensive, you really have to become your own doctor.
I️ fell ill around 3 years ago in England, had heart palpitations, a fever of 104 and severe chest pain. As an American, I️ was horrified because I️ didn’t have the money to pay to go to the ER and avoided going for three days until I️ almost passed out after eating some food. I️ went to the A&E (aka the ER) and they took me in, gave me chest x rays, antibiotics and a room with air conditioning (which apparently what I️ heard from my English friends is a rarity since air conditioners aren’t very common) When alone with a nurse I️ started crying because I️ literally used up so much of their resources and wondered how much I️ would have to pay. She calmed me down and told me “this was a serious emergency, you won’t be charged don’t worry” And at that moment I️ realized the American medical system has conditioned so many people to suffer and live in pain and even perhaps DIE because of the fear of debt. I’m alive today because of the NHS, a medical system that is not mine, in a country foreign to me. I was lucky, I️ could only imagine what would have happened to me in the states.
You should die if you want to steal from others or force others to work for a certain price, both at gunpoint, to keep you alive. If you want better/cheaper healthcare in the US, get the government and its monopolization practices out of the way.
I am a US Citizen living in Japan. After seeing how Japanese healthcare works, I am afraid to return to the US and risk ruining my comfortable retirement.
You sound FIRE or at least working towards that goal. Can you tell me more about the healthcare differences in Japan vs the US? I'm researching the topic extensively for a project I'm considering to write about. Thanks
You're very lucky and on top of that the Japanese people are so fortunate to have shops and all kinds of night markets as well as being such a clean and safe country, how I envy them.
And they charge me again for having another heart attack. This totally is the best healthcare system in the world, and I’m totally not making a sarcastic comment.
I was nearly dying and had to call before to health insurance to try and see which hospitals were within network because if I lived, I would soon be in critical condition again once I saw the hospital fees
I grew up in America and I currently live in West Africa. Just had a tumor removed and it cost me around $500. The same procedure would have cost me at least $15,000 or more in America. Being poor in America is a death sentence.
About 16 months ago my wife had a new cutting edge surge to fix her hart. The surge worked fine. Unfortunately it caused a flare of her two autoimmune disorders. She was in the hospital for almost two months. She got around the clock care with consulting from world-class doctors. We had no insurance at the time. They didn't hesitate to have her the best care available on the planet. We are not rich or famous but we had access to this kind of care because we are in the U.S. Yes it was expensive but you get what you pay for.
The government takes care of the poor families in America. It would have been covered by government insurance if one was actually poor. I'm not saying things are not to expensive here in the medical field, just that If your an actual poor family the government takes care of you. We would know.
@@rameses1979 I can understand that. Middle class suffers here of high cost in many areas and medical is one of them. It goes with housing as well. You basically feel poor many times in America as a middle class person because of all the bills and Dept.
finland: haha best press freedom go BBBBRRRRT Yeah we have free healthcare, even though we pay it back in taxes. It is very much worth it, since we dont have to worry if we dont have a job or if we break our arm. The govermeant pays for all of it. But that also doesn't mean that we dont have money, we do have money its just that we are wise about how we use it.
not even close to reality if your work for an employer you probably have a majority of your healthcare payed an covered. When I work in the pvt sector my healthcare is about 50 USD a month with my employer covering a bulk of the cost. Along with that many should have investments that they can pull from. If you have a "life savings" or a savings account beyond 90 days of rationing support, your not using money well. I forgo a traditional savings and have a money market account, that way my money at least stays and makes more than inflation.
thank you america, now i appreciate living in southern germany even more than before. ive seen 150k bills for 1 week in an american hospital, thats basically ruining your and your families life in 7 days.
yes, and bills like this are common in America. also they dont tell you how much the treatment cost until after... so you never get to see the price l until you are told you have to pay. alot of times people will just not go to the hospital out of fear of this
@@adityaraj2001 so do American government workers. Also every job has insurance. Also america isn't homogeneous like these other countries.the only reason they can have "free" healthcare is because American pays for their military and their country is a tenth the size. 90% of new meds come from the US. Like Norway. Free healthcare but they don't pay for their military, we do, and they are 99% white people and have a 70% tax rate for all.
It's cheaper to go to another country to treat diabetes AND enroll in lifestyle programme to fight diabetes, then travel the world, 6 continents while buying a house with a pool and a car in each continent, eating best delicacies, going to tourist spot, and all that with return flight... than having a diabetes treatment in the US that often only look at symptoms.
My teacher told me a year ago, that one of her cousins I think had gotten cancer. Now, they live in the US, where Healthcare isn't free unlike where I live. The first time, they had to sell their car and some other things to pay for the hospital bill. Then, the cancer came back and that time, her cousin and her husband had to sell their house and move into an apartment just to pay again! They should really fix their Healthcare system
I knew a RICH guy who had an AWESOME speedboat that probably costed hundreds of thousands of $. Despite being rich, he STILL had to sell that boat in order to afford the hospital bill.
@@falkyraizu3063 The point is if enough americans thought it was unfair today the taxes would be gone, but back then no matter how many people disliked the taxes it didn't matter.
@@duback1209 The point is that the original post is accurate. America revolted because of taxes, and the fact that many of the taxes were unfair. It is very hypocritical to do the exact thing years later
You know something's wrong with your country when your citizens go to the doctor less than other countries, but then still pay the most out of all of them.
I get what you mean, but it's not like we Americans don't go to the doctor less because we don't get into accidents or injuries less than other countries. We don't go to the doctor BECAUSE the cost is high. Because we have to pay the most, we are hesitant to ever go unless its for an actually serious injury
Yeah, if only Americans weren't in such poor health and as obese as compared to other first world countries, causing health care costs to go up...apples to oranges comparison for U.S. citizens to Euros.
In the netherlands you have insurance and you also pay health taxes. Basically, you pay healthcare for others via taxes but when you need healthcare its free for you too
Same in Lithuania, you get insurance when you are employed and pay taxes, if you are unemployed, you may enter "labour exchange service" in your city and then they pay your tax and you get insurance until you find a job, if for some reason you get kicked out, you are obligated to pay 30+ euros a month (the tax) by yourself, in order to get the insurance and then you get "free healthcare". You can visit anyone you want and get any procedure you want, but the bad thing is, sometimes you have to wait months in line to get to a doctor or to get a surgery, not always, but it happens a lot
+Eonkuja That is truly dreadful that you have to pay such high taxes in the Netherlands and then have to pay for insurance by force of the law. Median income in the US is $65,000 which would be taxed at 12% in the Netherlands that same income would be taxed at 38% which is three times higher. That is just truly terrible and I do feel sorry for you.
Eonkuja, so it's really not free. Because you paid for your healthcare by paying for others via taxes. They do the same, pay their healthcare by paying yours cause you paid theirs....you're still paying for healthcare....it's just a way to "make it feel less bad". Essentially it's manipulation.
Breaking Bad in basically any other country. "You have cancer" - *Walter White looks shocked* - "Treatment begins next tuesday, be at this adress at 8:45 AM on empty stomach, have someone drive for you or get a taxi back"
@@justinsimons3122 in the UK cancer treatment comes under what's called the "2 week rule" that means your treatment or assessment must happen within 2 weeks of any referral marked as such. Cancer treatment is very quick over here.
My dad is an American and had an intermittent generalized weakness. He went to his doctor in LA and had him to run some tests, but they couldn't diagnose him. He just kept sending my dad home for observation, gave him vitamins. He even went to ER because things were getting worse. Each visit to the GP cost him 200 USD. 3 weeks went by and the weakness was still there they just kept on running tests, CT scans etc. I'm a doctor from another country and told him to just book a flight to my country and get the right treatment. He did and it turned out it was just a simple case of hypokalemia. He got treated here properly and everything went back to normal.
That is just blatant theft. Good to know you managed to get him to visit your country for a proper healthcare. May God bless y'all with good life. If we may know, what country are you from?
I’m an American, and I can confirm that our healthcare system is hot steaming garbage. They only care about the sweet sweet green, and that’s all. They don’t care whether or not you have a life threatening wound or disease, they just want money.
Hello, I’m American. When I was about 4 I was diagnosed with S4 Neuroblastoma. Over the span of about 4-5 years of treatment my medical bills came around to roughly 2.5 million dollars. For a respective middle class family, and for anyone who isn’t in the upper-class, that isn’t pocket change. Fortunately, my family was covered by insurance so we weren’t financially devastated. For millions of people, however, the same can’t be said. This is the main reason why universal healthcare is extremely important.
@authorityy sorry to hear you had to go through that. I live in the UK and I think our NHS is pretty awesome. I think everyone should have the right to not have to worry about massive bills whenever they need healthcare
Wow, nice that you get rid of cancer and also "lucky" you that you had insurance. I have several people that had cancer, including my father, and he paid zero € in treatments for almost two years. He only had to pay a small percentage of the medication he took, like 50€ per year. I'm Portuguese btw.
In some countries with a universal healthcare system, you would not have a chance to survive, unfortunately... It's a huge price to pay, but I am glad that you are healthy and were covered by insurance.
As an old saying "It is cheaper to fly to travel to Spain in bussiness class flight, join equstrian club, ride a horse, break your femur there, getting it replaced, break it again, get it replaced again compared to getting it replace in america"
@@rowmin6433 But still, where I live I would end up paying nothing (or in certain cases 2,79 bucks for a day in a hospital) thanks to our insurance system. If I need to go for a check-up, it's most of the times free. Childbirth? Around 600 bucks. Everything here is much cheaper than in the US.
waiting for someone in privatized healthcare industry to lobby the government to pass a bill that ban uber for transporting potential patient to hospital under the name of "safety issue"
Sad but true. My mom had to drive my sister to the hospital when she was experiencing anaphylaxis and couldn’t breathe because we couldn’t afford the ambulance. I had to sit in the backseat so she wouldn’t get a ticket.
About a year ago I was severely depressed. I walked out of my workplace to my psychologists office and sat with someone for almost 2 hours. They determined that I was a danger to myself and refused to let me leave alone. I had 2 options. 1) call someone to pick me up and take me home or 2) go to hospital. I had nobody that I could contact, so they made me go to hospital. I was taken about 20 minutes in an ambulance, sat in the waiting room for about 30 minutes, then saw a doctor, who spoke to me for a while, gave me medication for my anxiety, and then referred me to another place. I went home and it never cost me a single cent, here in Australia. Not even the psychologist or the place I was referred to costs me money. Yes, I pay a Medicare levy on my tax return, but it's small, and I still get a hefty tax refund each year regardless, so it feels like nothing. I don't earn a lot, I basically live paycheck to paycheck. I can't imagine if I lived in America, and after such an ordeal was billed a few thousand dollars that I didn't have. Probably would have actually killed myself.
@@nothingatall3432 can you imagine spewing out freedom when your country charges you for every little thing you do? like owning a house and owning your own car and having children and having a problem with your health. Yeah freedom!! by the way they also charge you for being a citizen like an ID.
yeah i just don't understand why US citizens allow this to happen, this in my country is a crime, and if a paty does it, the party will lose elections even if they were governing well.
@Bøņę Đąđđý Yes really, corruption is literally putting pressure on a political figure to sway their decisions away from the citizens best interest to your own interests by bribing them.
When my family was visiting America, my mom saw this woman that was using Food stamps. When she inquired the woman told her that she had a baby prematurely, and the medical bills were so high. She worked as a nurse and her husband worked as a firefighter. Not the most well paid jobs but none the less you would assume they would have spent a lot of time and effort preparing for their baby. How do you have medical bills that high; over a BABY?
Hate to inform you, but neither firefighters nor nurses rank in the top 10% of earners in the US; in fact, both nurses and firefighters tend to not get paid well at all. On a quick search, firefighters in the city I'm in sit around 35 to 45k a year in income, but this is a state capital and cost of living for a family of 3, without medical bills thrown in, is around 4k to 5k a month for a comfortable lifestyle. Yes, you can do cheaper. But medical bills for a pre-mature baby? Oh yeah that's gonna be brutal. Not to mention she's likely not getting paid leave to take care of her baby, so they're likely down her paycheck. America, woo.
@@darkstock5103 wouldn't know; I'm sure a quick glance at indeed or a similar job hunter site could give you some numbers to work with in that regard. From there work out cost of living based on cost of gas, average rent/housing prices, and consider a staple food budget in that area from the price of things like eggs milk, bread, etc.
@@darkstock5103 Nurses and firefighters are never paid well(relatively speaking), regardless of country. In fact they're most likely near the bottom of the moneychain.
@@tappajaav Registered Nurse in NYC makes $100/hr and all benefits , firefighter makes over $100K year plus all benefits. same goes to teachers but in suburbs.
Have you ever had healthcare in a "3rd world country"? Where most nurses couldn't even be candy strippers in American hospitals and most doctors are basically on the level of an American nurse? I have many times.
So with those brain cells you developed could you please explain how America isn't good? Besides how we have the biggest economy, highest GDP , an opulent welfare safety net, the most powerful military in the world, and civil rights to live your life as you please with out government over reach? Plus a million other things.. I mean we have room to improve but I'm interested to hear how terrible it is.
@@anonymous.1303 pretty sure there are different videos about this. I dont know a lot about this topic, but as a person that lives abroad, I feel like america isnt really the best country. i will try finding a good video because i dont rly know how to explain (sry for bad english, im still trying to learn)
I live in the UK, and when I was a kid, my family lived from paycheck to paycheck. My mother had an excruciating pain in her stomach and was rushed to hospital. The doctors found gallstones and conducted keyhole surgery to alleviate the pain, but found a strange lump on her ovary. Turns out that she was in the early stages of ovarian cancer. The doctors brought her in to remove the lump, and conduct a full hysterectomy just to be safe. She spent months in the hospital, and months after that in physical therapy. We had NO MONEY which we could have spared to even cover the basics of this cost, and yet by the time my mother was recovered, the bill was ZERO. The NHS (our healthcare system), paid for it all. If she hadn't been seen, if they hadn't conducted the surgery, they estimate I would have lost my mother at the age of sixteen, three years after diagnosis. I'm twenty now, still in the UK, and I've been to hospital for a broken arm, I've seen the doctor for excruciating headaches, and every time I walk out of there with no debt and no worries, and to this day, myself and my family are in perfect health. No matter what anyone EVER tells you about the NHS, it saved my mother's life, and it saves the life of someone's mother, father, daughter, son, every minute of every day. I would never trade it for the world.
Talia Jones We have absolute morons in the USA, i would love to have something like The NHS here but Republicans think free market where companies can rip you of is soo much more important than saving peoples lives and giving millions better living standards
Why do Americans take all these comments and views from abroad so personally? Its just thoughts and views from other people and other countries on what we have. And before you say I don't know what Im talking about, I grew up in Michigan alright. Im not American, nor am I European, nor am I a communist for living in Asia. No I do not pay higher taxes then all of you, I still pay $5 for a pack of ciggies, coffee at startbucks is still $3 or so, my free government medical facility is state of the art and not 10 years backwards, with acceptable waiting time. But yet I still have paid medical insuarance if I choose to use it. Im not saying this the the greatest but... you all have to realise or admit the rest of us have a better system than in the states. We're not attacking your medical system or trying to turn it into communism. We just hope you sort it out one day.
Scrooge McGruel it's the same in Sweden and you know what? Even though we pay pretty high taxes, I do pretty well. I don't care I very rarely go to the hospital, I gladly pay for those who do, through my taxes. 😊
I remember when I broke my leg last year the first thing I did is asking my mom if my insurance was still good, and it was not, it had expired the week before so I made my mom wait to take me to the hospital till we renewed the plan the next day. I did not want her to add more the outrageous medical bills she already had. So welcome to America, it's not worth living here
I broke a shoulder, my right hand, tibia and fibula and i never had an insurance, i paid 0 euros. As an italian i can't understand a state without free healtcare
@@jeffcivjeep7 You do realize a lot of us are trying to, it's just that the fact that we're in crippling debt because of a single ambulance ride means we physically can't without getting extradited. I was born here, and now i'm gonna stay here until i pay off 3x my student loans in medical debt because i didn't have insurance, despite wanting to leave. What a fun and functional system we have here.
I was in India when I fell ill after a long trip, and visited a government clinic in Kerala, India. They charged me 2 rupees ($.025) for doctor's consultation and gave me free antibiotics and electrolytes. Recovered fully on the 3rd day. Never forget that excellent experience.
When it comes to the point where you or a loved one tells you even when they’re dying to not call an ambulance for them, you know this is a terrible country.
@@xenathornburg2416 Cost of an ambulance. Sometimes $2,000. Cost of a speeding ticket, $115 plus a strike on your license record, assuming you don't get it tossed out in court witch for medical emergencies judges often will.
My buddy had an accident where his leg was between a train and the trainstation. For weeks it was not clear if he could keep his leg or if the doctors had to amputate it. He had more than 15 surgeries for which he did not have to pay. The ambulance was for free and he gets a part of his salary while he is recovering. This is how it works in germany. A few weeks after it was clear he could keep his leg, I read an article where a woman who had a similar accident did not want an ambulance because she could not afford it. This absolutely terrified me because I know what could have happened if my buddy had not gotten medical treatment as soon as possible. I really hope you improve your healthcare system because I do not want anybody to suffer from a disease or a injury just because the person can not afford medical treatment.
@@victorfernandes4732 Well, not really free. The General Court is a collective term for rights everyone and all in Norway has to use nature, regardless of who owns the land. Tours in the woods and in the mountains, on foot and skiing, swimming, camping max 2 days, anchoring of boats, harvesting wild berries and flowers and recreational fishing in the sea are examples of such rights. The public rights mainly apply to outlying areas. The General Court has existed in Norway for a long time
Christian Soldier Dude, I don’t even know where you get this from. If I have something I can go to the doctor tomorrow first thing without even calling. They won’t like it because they have a schedule aswell, but they can’t reject me. If I have something more severe I can go to the 24hr ER service by myself and get myself checked in 30 mins. If I have something even more severe I can call an ambulance and get attended immediately. All payed for by my insurance. My fathers Job gives us insurance, if he loses that job the government will IMMEDIATELY take it over, payed for by my fellow Germans in the form of taxes. I will never have to pay by myself for necessary medical help. Is that sort of information that „oh you never get to see a doctor“ made up?? Quit it.
@@christiansoldier77 : True, but it doesn't matter. In the UK, where they *_do_* have single payer healthcare (and "worse", the medical treatment is actually provided by government employees!), you do have to wait a bit for elective surgery, but if you have something serious like cancer, *you literally CAN be seen by a doctor the next day.*
Who in the heck charges 600 dollars for a 15 minute visit. The US medical system. Everything about the US medical system is price gouging seriously a monopoly, and ignores many health problems. So why is it so expensive, when patients don't get proper care.
Here in Canada we used to have a pay-as-you-go health system like the USA. There was a huge political fight when the premier of the Province of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas, introduced provincial Medicare. Practically the whole North American health industry lined up against him -- there was even a doctor's strike that lasted 3 weeks! Yet in the end Medicare became the law in Saskatchewan and, to the surprise of many, it worked very well. It worked so well that even the doctors embraced it -- as businesspeople, the doctors realized it was more profitable for them, too, because they didn't have to pay the same business administration costs to maintain their own back office staff, and they didn't have to chase bad debts. In fact, Saskatchewan's Medicare system worked so well that it became the model for Canada's beloved "Universal" health care system. And Tommy Douglas, the premier who faced such political opposition, is now remembered as a national hero.
@@adeshkantha7034 There are 3 sectors in the Canadian healthcare system: Public, Private, and Voluntary. The public sector is made up of administrators, support staff, EMO workers, pharmacists and nurses who're paid by the government, either on an hourly rate or on salary. The private sector include private businesses like insurance companies, and the doctors and dentists who're professionals in private practice and who bill the government for professional services rendered (this includes non-salaried doctors practicing in hospitals). The voluntary sector includes the charities, service clubs, and religious orders who own, build and maintain the hospitals, clinics, etc. In the Canadian system there's room for all 3 sectors. There's also an overlap -- for example some doctors own private clinics and charge the government fees for professional services, according to the government's scale. Whatever isn't covered by the government, like "tray fees" etc., is paid either through the patient's own private sector insurance or directly out-of-pocket by the patient him/herself. As I mentioned, when Tommy Douglas brought in Medicare, one of the things that finally got the private sector doctors on side was that, under Medicare, they were making more money than they were before, because their overall business expenses were less. The doctors still kept their own offices with receptionists and nurses, but their overhead was lower because they didn't need accountants and bill collectors on staff anymore. The government paid their bills, so the doctors didn't need to cover the same back-office administration costs.
"as businesspeople, the doctors realized it was more profitable for them, too, because they didn't have to pay the same business administration costs to maintain their own back office staff" - this. In the US non-medical personnel make vasts amount of money from the healthcare system. That is completely unacceptable and the reason why healthcare costs are so high in the US.
@@messi9991 yeah you could cut the cost of healthcare by half without cutting into the salaries of doctors/nurses, rather you could just cut costs in middlemen administration processing costs and so much more.
One of the unique part of Japan’s national health care is it gears toward prevention. Standardized, annual health check/monitor is a common program, and it’s mandatory for most workers and students. To be able to detect an illness on early stage has save a lot of lives and yen for the health care program. Also, it allows people to know one’s health risk so they can change their problematic habit, again, it’s much easier to improve before it gets serious.
In Spain we have this for kids, maybe every year or two up to 14 years old. After that it's not mandatory, but you can probably get it. It seems like such a better method. In Spanish we have a saying "mejor prevenir que curar" which means "it's better to prevent than to cure" which is what Japan has I guess.
@@anaisalvarez6017 I grew up in spain and this was the mentality I grew up with, I still go to check ups every year now that I live on the Netherlands which is seen as weird but my doctor agrees with me Also in spain it moves faster then here in the Netherlands actually. Yeah you have to wait longer in the waiting room but at least I only have to wait a week for an mri compared to a month here in the Netherlands
Putting a priority on prevention probably also saves a crapload of money for when it's needed on the treatment end. What a concept. But, if it has the word social in it it's just too unAmerican.
Most preventative care in the US is free with the most basic health insurance. People just don’t go. Too busy making the world a better place for everyone else.
I am an expert in the U.S. healthcare system. My entire professional career involved hospital consultancy and I personally consulted in over 20 hospitals, including some of the largest in the country. The description presented by Mr. Klein is entirely correct though the depth of the financial corruption of the relevant aspects of our political system is much worse. The other argument that is so often made by politicians is that "we have the finest health care system in the world". We most definitely do not. In fact, it is more often just mediocre when measured by results. Then we are also told that we don't want "socialized medicine" or "government medicine" (I guess that means Medicare and Medicaid) because in countries that have those systems, people in desperate need have to wait long periods of time for treatment. That is only a half truth at best. The fact is that many highly advanced modalities of therapy are only available in Europe or Asia (usually Japan). I was recently speaking with the CFO and a board member of one of the major university hospitals in the 4th or 5th largest U.S. city. There they charged "private pay" (i.e. uninsured) patients $7200 for an ultrasound study that was usually done in local physicians' offices for about $200. Sound fair to you?
@@chasiah7101 Europe doesn't want more Americans leaching their systems and benefits and I don't blame them. Just cause your country isn't doing good in some places doesn't mean you just run away to "greener grass". We have to fix our own problems, not put weight on other countries just because they worked certain problems out on their own already.
@@chasiah7101 Nobody understands that the U.S pays way less in tax than most other European countries. Plus, we are the ones pouring in most of YOUR defense military budget (NATO) so that obviously makes it easier for European countries to have free healthcare. The U.S is the reason why Europeans are living so comfortable.
Immortal Legend yeah, no lol that is literally not true at all. Europeans do not live great because of US funding, that’s ridiculous. We may support NATO a lot, but we also have the largest GDP. This Europeans countries contribute and agreed-upon amount based on their GDP. They live great because their government cares more about the citizens instead of having the world’s largest military budget and spending $500k on mugs for the military.
@@unimpressedsquidward3059 To be fair, it's not 'just to make a mother hold her newborn baby'. There are procedures in place to safeguard both the mother's and baby's health. These procedures require equipment and personnel, and thus money. Water is also free if you go drink from the river, but if you want clean drinking water brought right to your tap at home, then you have to pay for the services that made it possible. I think it's cheap considering the convenience society gets out of it. A lot of European countries have a great healthcare system that subsidizes things like these so that the cost becomes a (partially) shared burden of society. Germany has more than 1 year of parental leave in case of child birth for instance. Obama tried to move in this direction with Obamacare as well, but US citizens hated it so much that they voted for the guy that promised he'd get rid of it.
USA PROBLEMS NO ONE TALK ABOUT: *Fast food in public schools *College/university(80k-100k 4 years) *Student debt highest than credit card debt or house debt * healthcare costs Meat and dairy companies lobbying Congress to keep giving cancer and diabetes so pharmacies and healthcare people keep being rich
Fast food isn't allowed to be sold in public school anymore...it hasn't been for like 20 years lol. Cant even have junk food of any kind being sold on campus. Other points are on point though.
Fast food in *hospitals*, even! Many American dentists even hand out candies. But this seems to be everywhere. Is there any western nation in which this isn't the case?
My wife gave birth to my first son in 2016, then she stayed for 3 days for recovery. The cost? it was free. Why? Because here in Indonesia, most of the citizens joined a government insurance program called BPJS. It charges only around 4 USD monthly. US Health-Care system is a JOKE!!
What else can you expect from a country that literally spends its entire budget for declaring a war with literally everyone lol. Btw you're Indonesian? We're the same then
Living in the uk and the most you ever pay (unless you are private) is about £9 for a prescription make me realise how lucky we are to have heavily subsidised health care. You get hit by a car, get airlifted put in icu and on a ventilator for 30 days and have 7 different surgeries, in the us that’s probably 1.5 million, in the uk that’s free
When I was a kid, I was really sick and had to be in the hospital for 10 days. The bill my parents received was for over $50,000. We had insurance. It maxed out the deductible and our maximum out of pocket spend for the year. They still owed $7,500. The cost of healthcare is truly obscene.
@@Sam-Striker-1 id much rather wait 4 hours than have my family sell their car to pay for my existence. i’m currently on the waiting list for a scan to see if i have a life threatening condition, have been for about a month, but i am perfectly willing to wait several more months. i’ve had free orthodontics, including full braces, free surgeries and overnight stays in hospital when i was really sick. my friend who oded had 4 days in hospital in intense recovery units, and her parents didn’t have to pay a penny for her full recovery. i don’t come from a high income family, and we wouldn’t of been able to afford the medication i’ve been on since i was 11 to prevent the development of said life threatening condition that i potentially have. free healthcare is incredible
True. It's horrible horrible for people born with medical conditions... the pricing can go into hundreds of thousands (or million) over a child's lifetime if they were born with conditions that require specific treatment or lifelong medication
People have to pay thousands of dollars a year, sometimes a month for insurance. With private insurance the copay for a checkup for me (a minor) is $90
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My father lives in california and the dentist were charging him 30k to fix his teeth. Instead of doing that he would drive down to Mexico to get his teeth fixed. He went around 6-7 times, on the weekends. He slept at hotels, paid for fuel, food, and the dental bill. At the end, he fixed his teeth and spent a fraction of the price, combined around 6,500.
dental care tends to get more and more expensive everywhere, but still, 30 big ones for fixing teeth? Did your father want to get all his teeth replaced with diamonds?
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I went to the ER last year and got a CT scan for a kidney stone (I went because I I thought it might’ve been appendicitis). No ambulance, no overnight stay, no removal or dissolution of the small stone. Just a few hours at the hospital and the bill to insurance was just shy of $8,500. Luckily my insurance covered all but about $250 of it.
4:24 "Those are huge industries now, and they have a lot of influence in Congress." That's exactly where the problem is, they shouldn't have any influence
@@ghyul6263 to be fair I would be too seeing as to how aggresive they've been lately. Its best to be prepared at least. But even then I do agree they should focus on the people then defending an attack that might not happen as soon as we think. Like we have so many great and amazing allies like almost all of Europe, south Korea, Japan, etc. Hope things change soon. That the next president at least can do something about this
I'm from India and my father had to get angioplasty a year ago. We had 2 choices 1. Get it done for free in a public govt aided hospital 2. Get it done in a private hospital Since there was a waiting list in the govt hospital we decided to go to private hospital. It was a week long stay. We got the best healthcare facilities and the whole procedure including everything costed us INR 125,000 (around $1700) and every single penny of our bill was paid by the health insurance. We had to pay literally nothing.
so basically india not only has a public healthcare system, but the private system from india is also better than the private system from usa holly molly 😂 by the way, I hope you and your father are doing great, even tho that was 4 years ago
A few days ago, I had breakfast at home, went to the hospital, got hand surgery, and was home for dinner the same day. It cost me $10 for the bus fare.
healthcare is a human right, of course it needs to be payed for, and someone has to foot the bill, but the bill should cost as little as its feasibly possible to cost, not as high as it can cost till people say no. healthcare should not be a business it should be a service. in most countries, education is also a service, even up to higher levels of education. its literally for the benefit of all of society.
Incorrect. Other countries there is no need to search. Go to the Hospital nearest to you. They all offer quality healthcare. There are constantly monitored to ensure there offer a quality of healthcare. Sometimes your GP will refer you to a specialist who works in specific hospitals. So you go to the hospital on a day he has allocated time of a surgical unit.
@@davidlean8674 Depends on what treatment you need. But most of the time you can go to the nearest hospital and then will send you to one that specialized in that treatment like for example cancer.
@@davidlean8674 Not quite. Some hospitals are significantly more understaffed or have a higher percentage of trainees. They can also have less beds per person in the area. This means they're less likely to admit you and you're less likely to get treatment. Also, if you're certain your condition requires a specific specialist, it is wise to go to a hospital where that specialist is readily available rather than a different one, from which you will be transferred to the hospital with the specialist present anyway.
Ah. The ratings is a thing I only use for mental hospitals. Really if you are in therapy for 13 years in and out you prefer being treated like a human being.
@@egorsilovs156 It is best to go to nearest hospital in case of emergency. If they are not specialized in the treatment of the injury they will refer you to the right hospital. If you are certain and it is not an emergency you can go directly to the hospital which is specialized in the treatment
@Solstice of Snow So then why do all the other countries which have ultra super Obamacare ++ have lower prices? More Obamacare solves the problem it seems.
@@adityaraj2001 yea that too of the best quality And if you're having meduclem And state savings You get free health care from top notch hospital like appolo But single-handedly coming to Chennai for health care is of best quality but still unaffordable 😭😭
Had a terrible toothache for a month. Went to dentist and they said dental care is not covered. Ended up buying whiskey and pliers watching TH-cam videos of people pulling out their teeth. I tried and tried to get help. America is far from perfect and we tell others how to live. Pretty depressing if you think about the world.
Doubtful, it's more likely the fact that 45% of Americans are on govt sponsored healthcare and insurance companies mediating those plans have zero incentive to negotiate lower prices. If you give those companies a profit motive while regulating their policies to ensure equal quality of care then our healthcare will be a lot cheaper very quickly.
@@jacob2359 'If you give those companies a profit motive while regulating their policies ': thats why they are lobbying, to make sure no regulation is brought in to hinder there greed.
@@IANC4EVER Uh, no one lobbies to get rid of legislation. Less regulation allows better performing ideas to succeed, and big businesses know they can't outcompete everyone. This is why McDonalds lobbies for the $15/hr minimum wage, why pharmaceutical companies lobbied in favor of Obamacare/ACA, because more regulations and higher costs can be eaten by a big companies bottom line. It's the competition that can't handle excessive regulations or increasing the bottom line. Haven't you ever wondered why big corporations support leftist policies so often despite how anti-corporation they're painted?
"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means". Nye Bevan 1948,. Start of British Health Service.
I am pretty certain that you can look in any lexicon on earth and that is not the definition of "civilized." And mind you that every country does this, even the British health care system. At some point, health care is refused to do to cost vs likely outcome.
So the majority must suffer for the feckless few? My mother never smoked a cigarette in her life but she got cancer , my cousin was born with a heart defect, and was operated on by the top heart surgeon in the country, cost? Nothing. We pay for this by our weekly or monthly wage. If you become unemployed, or sick and are unable to work,the government pays. How do you know what the future holds for you? Long term illness? car accident? job loss? Family congenital illness.? When we are young we support others, when we are older we benefit. It is affordable when we all pay.
That seems a big trouble to you. But having the money taken out from your paycheck to to buy to privates a fighter jet that drops bombs killing dozen, and hundreds around the globe, that sounds more virtuous to you. Your words are the sign of the collapse of the reasonable civilization. People who think like you, who unfortunately are proliferating like mushrooms after a rain storm, will bring human kind to the Stone Age.
@Uliks The point of government is not to be moral. It is to protect the rights and interests of its citizens. No government on earth exists to protect other countries citizens above their own. War is a part of having boards, borders are a part of identifying collective identity. You can't compare personal morality and then apply it social justice.
I did aswell. Paid 10$ for everything at the emergency Center in Sweden. While i was home 6 weeks im getting paid 80% of the salary from the swedish social insurance.
I come from Korea that has some of the best medical technology at a price of nothing to less than $100. When I came to the US and realized that they actually make you pay for the ambulance ride it made me wanna throw up.
Wonton I had a Korean girl have a seizure in my print lab while her class was doing a demonstration(I was working at a university at the time) and after the seizure she had to refuse any care. It made me angry because I knew she took medications in Korea but couldn't bring them into the US, and she couldn't afford to buy her medication here. My only experience with medical problems outside the US was France and it was so much more streamlined than here. Hell, I dropped my motorcycle on my foot and I'm just living with the ache because it's not worth the cost. Not because I can't afford it but because spending 79 dollars just to be seen isn't worth it, and that's with insurance I get as a benefit of being in the military which does tell doctors how much they can charge.
Wonton I think you have to pay for the ambulance in Belgium too, well... if the insurance doesn't cover what you did. A friend of mine was so drunk once he had to go to the hospital and he had to pay for the ambulance
I feel like you're missing an important chart at the beginning: one that shows that American healthcare outcomes are actually worst than in a lot of other countries that use single-payer healthcare. If they were paying more for better health than that'd be understandable. But right now their system doesn't even produce the best results, despite having the highest price!
Whenever I speak with my friends in Europe, Australia, Asia and telling them how am I get treated when sick, they ask if I really live in USA and not in a third-world country. The worst system for people who are paying their health insurance 3 times more than in any western country.
@@klaus120 é aquela parada, o SUS já nasceu sucateado. Ninguém quis investir no começo, então ele funciona aos trancos e barrancos desde o começo. Mas po, pra algo sucateado do jeito que é, o SUS é bonzão
I often hear something like "The US are the only first world country that have a quality of life of a third-world country" And this is not only talking in health. I already heard it in security and education debates
In AustraliaI, head a heart attack died, was resuscitated at a regional hospital with a defibulater, driven to an airfield where an air ambulance was waiting with a doctor, nurse, and pilot. I was flown to our state capital. I was put in an ambulence with lights and sirens. Had open heart surgery (6.5 hrs) followed by 48 hrs in an induced coma in ICU followed by 5 days on a ward with pain killers and physiotherapy. They transported me back home... My bill was.................ZERO$
You know, just because one model is good for one thing, like how capitalism is good for having a free market and creating jobs, however, just because it works for products and objects doesn't mean that it's a perfect solution for everything. Healthcare isn't a product, it's a service that you don't have any power to refuse. In the free market you can you choose to go for the less expensive option or to not buy at all if the price exceeds your budget, but when it comes to health you NEED to get it or your other options are some variation of a terrible sickness which impedes productivity or death.
I'm not American, so I can't know for sure, but according to another of Vox's videos, you can't even know how much you are going to pay for many of your medical services. At that point, it's not even capitalism anymore.
cassi farcas It's true. Trying to ask for an estimate of an average hospital stay for giving birth is impossible. Prescriptions may cost one price for 1 insurance plan and another price for a different plan even within the same insurance company. It takes forever to know if you're deductible is met. There are a lot of potentially expensive unknowns, and that alone is extremely stressful.
Marvin you do realize you wouldn't and i mean 100% would not exist if it wasn't for medicine. It is one of the literal reasons why humanity has even maid it to this point. Saying that is like saying that you may as well go back to the dark ages were 40 was your maximum life expectancy. Not saying we don't have to pay anyone for it but humans by this point should have the guaranteed right te be able to receive medical treatment without death seaming like the better option over the bill to heal you.
Was in a caraccident in sweden, a combine of 7 days in 2 different hospitals. Ambulance transport from one to the other (about 180km) full treatment, multiple headscans. Ended up paying 1000 swedish crowns which I got 700 back from my insurance. (120 dollars at the time and got 84 back) this was followed by multiple rehabilitation sessions and one eye surgery which was all free, This is why I gladly pay my taxes and live a life where I dont have to constantly worry what would happen if something happened to me.
Plus you gets paid leave from your job(if your country has the system and it can be 80% of salary or 60% in some countries) and can join after recovering.
Even if a US single payer system were just as expensive as our current one, I'd still prefer it. That way, we are far less likely to be tricked by insurance companies into paying for what we don't need.
I had two surgeries in the UK while I was studying for my Masters degree (as an International Student) and I didn't have to pay for those surgeries as well as the pre/post-surgical care I got. I feel indebted to that country and that's one of the reasons I have a soft spot for the UK
Lucky you, we've heard about how long it takes the NHS to schedule and do a surgery. Shoot, Canada has a 20 week waiting period for surgery and you got 2 done? You're pretty lucky man.
@@jacob2359 And just now we've heard the exact opposite. "Hearing things" from media outlets or anecdotal sources with a slant might just prove to be a pretty unreliable source of information after all. :thonking:
@@brianbethea3069 On one hand that true. On the other hand I heard this from a Canadian Public Policy think tank: www.fraserinstitute.org/categories/health-care-wait-times So it's likely the data is pretty reliable. But hey, I've got great anecdotal events like how the NHS cancelled thousands of surgeries last year due to the flu season: www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/02/nhs-hospitals-ordered-cancel-routine-operations-january/amp/
At the same time, how is UK’s economy doing in general? Do you think it’s economically stable to force citizens to pay taxes for someone else’s health coverage? Personally as an American, I work for my health benefits and I am glad I am not forcing others to pay it for me.
@@jacob2359 Ah, and here I was thinking that you were just talking about how lucky he was to be able to get two surgeries in the time he was there. But just twenty days for wait time? A masters degree generally takes two years, that's a lot of 20 week periods. 5 of them, really. For that reason, I had assumed you were talking about wait times upwards of 52 weeks, which would be pushing it into unlikely territory, but I think that's more than enough time to have two surgeries scheduled and completed with a 20 week waiting period. Not sure how that makes him a lucky man.
I lived the first 30 years of my life in America being told how it is the greatest country on Earth. It didn't take long traveling abroad to see through this lie. I've spent the past 15 years living in Switzerland and have not even gone back to the U.S. for a visit. Best decision of my life, as I've been watching things only get worse over there.
lol my friend was a chinese foreign exchange student here in usa and he tells me all the time (hes back in china) how much he regrets studying in america
Good, America is so great it allows you to do just that...leave. I immigrated here and love it, in Europe I would have to conform to collectivism, here I am responsible for my own decisions, make 3 times the money compared to anywhere in the world and enjoy pretty much everything. Funny thing is I have a Friend who is also an Engineer like myself, He lives in Vern and He is hoping to get his green card so he can move to Florida.
@@masterA05 Why do you need to know where he works? Are you looking for personal information about him that you can use to discredit him? Perhaps if he is poor then we shouldn't listen to him. Is that what your question is meant to accomplish? If you don't mind me asking?
I have been in hospital 3 times in Australia. Fracture 0 day, fracture, laceration 2 day stay, laceration/ eye infection 2 weeks stay. I paid nothing from my pocket. Medicare or Public Health paid for all of it.
I broke my c3 c4 and c5 in a car accident had to have a Halo brace with screws going into my head, had to learn how to walk again. It cost about half a million for it all, even had a neck specialist flown up from Colorado to do the surgery, this was all done in Vancouver general hospital i was in and out in a month. all free because i am Canadian. I didn't wait for any of it and never had to wait for anything, including dental or any other procedure or surgery. all free.
No wait for anything in Canada? Everything that is not an emergency is a long wait. MRI is 9 month wait. Hernia surgery is 4 months wait. To see a spine specialist 1 year wait. Calgary, AB. Try again. Don't even try to compare Canadian socialized healthcare to US.
@@markgorman4805 bro in the middle of COVID in Scotland I had a non important toenail needing removed and it took a week also quite ironic Americans don’t say that there country can’t afford it but then u look at USA military budget
@@markgorman4805 let's be clear that even if what you said was true. The difference is that anyone from low middle class and down just wouldn't get to go to a hospital. And would probably really feel the pain of the financial costs. If they're lucky they'll be able to get it through their job and still be very hurt from the costs.
@@markgorman4805 It factually isn't. You literally don't have that argument because by ever measure it just isn't. On top of that, insurances vary so wildly you can't even generalize it.
@@1911dawg wait, you think Canadians want Americans healthcare?? You do realise even in places with public healthcare that the option for paying out of pocket for a private system is still there
@@mspaint93 I know, and the government healthcare is so bad that public clinics suggest private clinics admitting how bad government healthcare is. Though why would you pay the extra taxes if you go to a private clinic?
When i broke my ankle it cost me $200, 9 days/nights @ the hospital, 2 surgeries, breakfast, lunch, dinner and a little snack at night... A year later, i removed a metal plate and 7 screws, it cost me $30 ish. Hurray sweden =D
I once had a simple blood test in US without health insurance, & it cost me $900+ $200 for one doctor appointment. I was pissed off because they drew my blood first, without telling me it would cost so much. If I knew, I would have refused it.
wrong. they might have to wait for say, a knee replacement, but not for urgent life threatening illness or injury. if youre gonna argue, read up first. you look foolish.
1.) Education for medical professionals is private and for profit. 2.) Pharma is private and for profit. 3.) Clinics and hospitals are private and for profit. 4.) Insurance is private and for profit. 5.) Government is for sale.
I am a doctor in Germany. I didn´t have to pay for my medical training. Universities are free in Germany. So after graduation I didn't have any debts. Sure the income is lower than in the US. But beeing doctor in Germany still is one of the best paid jobs here. And I don't have to pay back my education (how much does it cost to be a doctor in the US?) .And I don't need to save for my kids´college education. I'm sure this is one additional factor for less expensive health care! I'm happy everybody has an insurance. All my patients can afford the necessary treatment, wether it be simple drugs or it be expensive chemotherapy.
I am a doctor in South Korea. We have a even "better" system, in which medical students pay for their own training. They get a loan from bank for their own clinic. Then, boom! The government comes in and lower the prices. I visit other doctors for my own minor ailments and are amazed at both how low the prices are and how high the service qualities are. And, yes. "bee"ing doctor in South Korea still is one of the best paid jobs here. The only problem is that we doctors should really work like bees.
helinakeijo The taxes are high for sure, but I would rather give money out of my salary troughout the years and know that in case of a medical emergency I won't have to choose death over hospital bills.
I lived in the US for a year and everytime I started to feel bad I was literally scared because I didn't want to go to the doctor because it's so expensive. I went three times total and I was recieving medical bills for MONTHS. In Spain you don't have to pay anything for doctor visits and just a few cents or euros for medication, and even if you have private insurance, it's way less expensive than what in America would be a bad insurance.
Helena de la Peña Haha same here! Saudi has free healthcare care and visits to the doctors are free and sometimes so are the medicines. And “if” we have to buy from the hospital pharmacy it’ll be around 20 saudi riyals max (which is around $5).
The cost is high cause uninsured but not poor enough for Medicaid (federal and state funded) must pay over priced services to keep hospitals open and to feed their pockets whether its private or public hospitals run by colleges. We have to pay for over priced meds cause we subsidize the world for that medication. Drug companies can only get certain prices from the same drug in those countries and sometimes give them away. Who pays? We the US consumer do. I agree we need a new system but it’s not just one solution. We must overhaul the entire system. Insurance, ligation law, drug laws, hospitals, and doctors. One thing this type of system does is provide one of the best healthcare in the world. If it didn’t than why do people from all over the world come to the US for surgeries and care? Our doctors are amongst best cause there is a financial incentive to be the best. People who want to be doctors for several reasons and a main reason is financial. Physicians make a lot of money in the US. When you have to go to school for 8-10 years and have internships for 1-3 yrs than 2-5 more years of residency, you want to be compensated for all that hard and costly work. Can’t get that in some of these free (not really free cause you pay by high taxes) cause they set the amount physicians can make.
I live in the US and I love my country but health care here sucks. Like a few yrs ago I had a simple cold, not the flu or anything. I did have a temp about 101.3 I think. Any way I had to go to the hospital, I waited for about 30 minutes to be seen and there was only three people in the waiting room including me. I get in the back and get seen by the doc, they hook me up to a saline drip for my fever and then send me out the door afterwards. I felt better the next day and was happy, but then the bill came. I do not have insurance it is just to expensive plus Obama care was not going to well in my town, and some places did not accept it at all. My bill in total was about $3,000. Waiting room cost, saline cost, nurse that saw me, the bed I was in, ect... This needs to stop. Yes doctors work their butts off to get where they are but they don't need to charge me an arm and a leg if all they are going to do is give me something for a fever. American health care is a joke, the only care being provided is the "company" lining its pockets.
douglas carpenter Why do you say he's an idiot? You think it's his fault he got sick and had to pay $3000? Our health care system is indeed flawed. It only works for people who get health insurance through their employer. If you don't have this, you have to pay the phoney inflated prices.
THEMenelouss Well, comparing U.S to something like Poland (no offense) with really shitty infrastruckture, just to "show" that public healthcare doesn't work. It's just like comparing Russia to U.S just to "show" that privatizing doesn't work.
Think of it like these large private insurers bartering and gambling that they can take so much money and pay for X number of expensive things to these hospitals etc. Hospitals raise prices to meet the insurance and you get the system you see. Its ridiculous. But the corporations basically own the US now, just look at Net nuetrality and how thats going.
THEMenelouss - Why are you comparing the US healthcare system to Poland ? Why not to other countries like Canada ? Japan ? Norway ? LOL Even if you pay a high percentage of tax in Poland, you would still be paying MORE in the US for the same level of healthcare. It's easy to dismiss healthcare when you don't need it but when the bill comes you're screwed & u realize just how greedy & corrupt the medical industry is.
In germany you never pay anything for the Hospital..... imagine to pay 1000 of euros for this nonsense is ridiciolous... i never step a food in this weird country usa...
Shattered my knee in an accident, ambulance takes me to hospital then transported to another hospital because that’s where the specialist is, had two surgeries and it didn’t cost me anything, now I receive 80% of my salary until I’m able to return to work. This is right of every New Zealand citizen
Healthcare is not a right
Barack_ Mo Bamba In New Zealand it is
@@barack_mobamba4873 Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights states that "Everyone has the right to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and of his family, including food, clothing, housing and medical care and necessary social services, and the right to security in the event of unemployment, sickness, disability, widowhood, old age or other lack of livelihood in circumstances beyond his control."
Medical care IS A RIGHT. You have the right to adequate medical care, and denying that is denying a person of their human rights.
@@barack_mobamba4873 Healthcare is a right for every humans.. Unfortunately it is not in US
@@barack_mobamba4873 I feel like wanting to be alive and healthy is a right
I had my first severe panic attack and thought I was severely sick so I drove myself to the hospital in Miami, I sat on the ER bed for 30 minutes and started to feel better, I left without treatment and was charged 1,200$. Without. Treatment.
Get a humifider and lavender and rub it around your neck take a cold shower and try to calm down with soft music I had my 2 panic attack didn’t even go to the dr cause I knew they weren’t gonna do nothing don’t have insurance either.
Olku ain’t nothing good here unless your poor and have multiple kids and the government takes care of you middle class here is like a sin cause we have it the hardest .
How did you feel after receiving your medical bill?😰🥵🤯🤯
@@olku This is why I'm planning to leave America for good after my retirement!! And. Yes...I am a American!!!😯😯😯
Are you kidding???? in sweden you would have paid at the most 350kronor wich is like 35$ And id you needed a heart surgery 35$ doesnt matter the issue 35$ is the most we pay
USA -- Land of the free(*).
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btw I'm from the US.
@@eklectiktoni no one asked?
@@sxar_0660 Yep, I know. Just wanted to volunteer that info.
@@eklectiktoni aight
Ok
In the US, if someone finds a way to charge people for breathing outside, they will.
Its on the way
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They're probably working on it right now.
Then blame people if they can't pay for it smh
in germany we have a tax for co2 lol
I met an american he told me he had planned to undergo a teeth surgery to take out 2 teeth for about 3500$ but instead he bought a ticket trough a college he knew and came to Turkey to undergo that same surgery + had a vacation in an 5 star hotel for 5 days for less then 1500$
Kaan Erdem *escuse me 3500$?*
@@julien4305 and an implant
@@kaanerdem2822 b-but...
@@kaanerdem2822 whaat
I don't believe it
Imagine every local grocer refusing to reveal the price of the bread unless you are done eating that bread. Welcome to US healthcare system.
Thank you for proving that health care is a cartel and not free market.
Heath Blasted ~ No, that's an accurate statement.
Most anyone can quickly make a reasonable guess at what a loaf of bread will cost.
Without looking it up, how many do you think can accurately guess what an MRI costs?
A liter of AB Neg blood?
A liver biopsy?
And exactly how do you go about comparison shopping those "consumer items"?
The weekly ads in the paper and monthly mailers? Maybe a Groupon?
I would say that it is your offhand dismissal of Mr Dhar's metaphor that is glib, sir.
Saugat Dhar exactly, only in heathcare are the prices hidden, and not easy to know before the bill comes. So stupid.
Saugat Dhar and if you don't eat the bread you will starve to death.
ITS EXPANSIVE BECAUSE THEY WANT IT FOR FREE.
I've seen Americans come here to India to get Braces. Apparently Braces in India cost as much as an appointment in the US.
Yes that’s true. If we need any major surgery or even to have wisdom teeth removed we go to Thailand. The plane ticket is about 1300$ US the whole procedure with medicine is about 50$. To do that here and pay cash I got quoted anywhere from 7,000-15,000$ we save a fortune by going to Thailand for stuff like that. My family member had to get a liver transplant it cost $10,000 American cash in Thailand here it would have cost $200,000. What’s funny too is the hospitals there are nicer than the ones here I’ve been to. This place is a company not a country
What my braces here in the us were pretty cheap
@@ibrahimatraore061 you got insurance?
@@Jeramithehuman yeah but i paid it out of my on pocket for 3500
@@ibrahimatraore061 what’s your monthly premium? Even if it’s only $20 a month that’s still $240 a year plus you paid $3500 out of pocket. A round trip ticket with hotel food everything is still a fraction of the price going to Thailand you’ll pay maximum 2k for everything the other $500 you can live like a king for a month take an awesome vacation ride elephants take private boat tours and still come home with an extra $500 In your pocket. Now if we had universal healthcare you could just go and get anything done medically at no cost. The problem is with the private healthcare here
What’s worse is people can’t afford doctor visits and hold off going to the doctor until their health is so far gone. At that point your pretty much handed a death sentence.
In India if you are a government employee then you got free medical healthcare for free.
Why does usa healthcare care about money, not lives? Im pretty sure that makes it really bad. They are so rich
Speak for yourself
@@Alex_Aramayo Says the one speaking for himself
@@ravysaini127 because the USA in general cares more about money than people's lives
I was shocked when I realised that ambulances aren’t for free in the USA .-.
Jose David 1507 Yep. There are tons of stories where someone is having a medical emergency and they don’t want to call an ambulance out of fear that they won’t be able to afford it.
Unbelievable even in my country, which is in third world ambulance is free...
Ikr same here
When I was new to America, I was involved in an accident. My friends called an ambulance and I was taken to hospital. I was discharged a day later and I had to pay $5000.03 ($1000 being ambulance cost). I still don't understand the 3 cents after they ripped me off.
Now I know better, I have saved others from calling for an ambulance. Never go hospital in America unless your condition is critical
$1200 per 10 mile ride.
America's healthcare genuinely terrifies me.
I live in Europe and I once broke my leg. I was driven into the hospital, and my leg was casted and I was let go for free (it was paid for by the NHS). I can't imagine being on holiday in America and breaking my leg by accident and paying thousands for just that
I do pay £100 a month NI it is worth it though.
It’s embarrassing to me as an American. Backwards uneducated rural country people would say that “it’s not free because you pay so much more taxes” or that government involvement “takes away freedoms”, because apparently being American means not paying taxes LOL. I live in a country of so many ignorant people.
@@3lizabethrose Don't worry. Every country has people that let the nation down.
I broke my leg once as a teen, but I did not go to the doctor because of the cost. My mom created a makeshift cast, fed me lots of calcium, and I took it easy for a few months. I also gave birth to my son at home. When healthcare is so expensive, you really have to become your own doctor.
@@agees924 I once did my kidney transplant on my own.
I️ fell ill around 3 years ago in England, had heart palpitations, a fever of 104 and severe chest pain. As an American, I️ was horrified because I️ didn’t have the money to pay to go to the ER and avoided going for three days until I️ almost passed out after eating some food.
I️ went to the A&E (aka the ER) and they took me in, gave me chest x rays, antibiotics and a room with air conditioning (which apparently what I️ heard from my English friends is a rarity since air conditioners aren’t very common)
When alone with a nurse I️ started crying because I️ literally used up so much of their resources and wondered how much I️ would have to pay.
She calmed me down and told me “this was a serious emergency, you won’t be charged don’t worry”
And at that moment I️ realized the American medical system has conditioned so many people to suffer and live in pain and even perhaps DIE because of the fear of debt.
I’m alive today because of the NHS, a medical system that is not mine, in a country foreign to me.
I was lucky, I️ could only imagine what would have happened to me in the states.
Amanda You are welcome. Glad you had a good experience in my home country.
Amanda
Indeed you are absolutely welcome for receiving what we regard as a basic human right in a developed country.
You should die if you want to steal from others or force others to work for a certain price, both at gunpoint, to keep you alive. If you want better/cheaper healthcare in the US, get the government and its monopolization practices out of the way.
But Amanda was fine... because she happened to be in a country where these 'practices' take place. The US is the broken outlier
I am a US Citizen living in Japan. After seeing how Japanese healthcare works, I am afraid to return to the US and risk ruining my comfortable retirement.
Do not come back lol. Unless you have family in the states I don’t know why anyone would choose to more to America over the EU or Canada.
I really don't understand, almost every developed country have free healthcare, I don't know why the US government doesn't want it to be free
You sound FIRE or at least working towards that goal. Can you tell me more about the healthcare differences in Japan vs the US? I'm researching the topic extensively for a project I'm considering to write about. Thanks
You're very lucky and on top of that the Japanese people are so fortunate to have shops and all kinds of night markets as well as being such a clean and safe country, how I envy them.
Renounce that citizenship, and cross through the border when sick. 🤔
Oh no, I’m having a heart attack. Let me just find the best price for a hospital that’s nearby
And you probably won't be able to find out because they won't tell you.
Not that I would be able to ask since I would have a HEART ATTACK
@@elimartin3982 you can have another heart attack later when you get the bill
And they charge me again for having another heart attack.
This totally is the best healthcare system in the world, and I’m totally not making a sarcastic comment.
I was nearly dying and had to call before to health insurance to try and see which hospitals were within network because if I lived, I would soon be in critical condition again once I saw the hospital fees
I grew up in America and I currently live in West Africa. Just had a tumor removed and it cost me around $500. The same procedure would have cost me at least $15,000 or more in America. Being poor in America is a death sentence.
About 16 months ago my wife had a new cutting edge surge to fix her hart. The surge worked fine. Unfortunately it caused a flare of her two autoimmune disorders. She was in the hospital for almost two months. She got around the clock care with consulting from world-class doctors. We had no insurance at the time. They didn't hesitate to have her the best care available on the planet. We are not rich or famous but we had access to this kind of care because we are in the U.S. Yes it was expensive but you get what you pay for.
The government takes care of the poor families in America. It would have been covered by government insurance if one was actually poor. I'm not saying things are not to expensive here in the medical field, just that If your an actual poor family the government takes care of you. We would know.
@@jamesgray143 I guess you can say I am middle class. Still I don't wanna spend 15K on a medical procedure that actually costs $500.
@@rameses1979 I can understand that. Middle class suffers here of high cost in many areas and medical is one of them. It goes with housing as well. You basically feel poor many times in America as a middle class person because of all the bills and Dept.
@@jamesgray143 I am glad we are seeing eye to eye. As a middle class person you are 1 or 2 paychecks away from being poor or homeless
Health care in US:
Trade offer:
I receive: your entire life savings
You recieve: knee caps back
@John Spöner pretty sure people in the Uk aren’t socialist and still have free healthcare
finland: haha best press freedom go BBBBRRRRT
Yeah we have free healthcare, even though we pay it back in taxes. It is very much worth it, since we dont have to worry if we dont have a job or if we break our arm. The govermeant pays for all of it. But that also doesn't mean that we dont have money, we do have money its just that we are wise about how we use it.
@@kenlyck1474 Ehhh not so bad here in Canada we get universal healthcare which is pretty good I guess.
not even close to reality if your work for an employer you probably have a majority of your healthcare payed an covered. When I work in the pvt sector my healthcare is about 50 USD a month with my employer covering a bulk of the cost. Along with that many should have investments that they can pull from. If you have a "life savings" or a savings account beyond 90 days of rationing support, your not using money well. I forgo a traditional savings and have a money market account, that way my money at least stays and makes more than inflation.
@@SimanSlivar Bruh, your taking it too seriously.
thank you america, now i appreciate living in southern germany even more than before. ive seen 150k bills for 1 week in an american hospital, thats basically ruining your and your families life in 7 days.
yes, and bills like this are common in America. also they dont tell you how much the treatment cost until after... so you never get to see the price l until you are told you have to pay. alot of times people will just not go to the hospital out of fear of this
In India if you are a government employee then you got free medical healthcare for free.
I dont wanna hear about how germany is better than the usa. You guys started 2 world wars
@@adityaraj2001 so do American government workers. Also every job has insurance. Also america isn't homogeneous like these other countries.the only reason they can have "free" healthcare is because American pays for their military and their country is a tenth the size. 90% of new meds come from the US. Like Norway. Free healthcare but they don't pay for their military, we do, and they are 99% white people and have a 70% tax rate for all.
It's cheaper to go to another country to treat diabetes AND enroll in lifestyle programme to fight diabetes, then travel the world, 6 continents while buying a house with a pool and a car in each continent, eating best delicacies, going to tourist spot, and all that with return flight... than having a diabetes treatment in the US that often only look at symptoms.
My teacher told me a year ago, that one of her cousins I think had gotten cancer. Now, they live in the US, where Healthcare isn't free unlike where I live. The first time, they had to sell their car and some other things to pay for the hospital bill. Then, the cancer came back and that time, her cousin and her husband had to sell their house and move into an apartment just to pay again! They should really fix their Healthcare system
They? Who? Power belongs to the people. Wake up. Wake up
no
I knew a RICH guy who had an AWESOME speedboat that probably costed hundreds of thousands of $. Despite being rich, he STILL had to sell that boat in order to afford the hospital bill.
@@elephant35e And well he should have.
America is 100% capable of using tax payer money for free health insurance for everyone. I'm sure you can guess why that already isn't a thing.
America is a business, not a country.
Michael McNamara The business of America is business. President Coolidge.
Exactly, just like how our president is a business man 🤦🤦♀️
Kitty Meow Meow “business man”
@@Iamnotabug thats literally what he was before he somehow became president
Kitty Meow Meow Yeah I’m aware. I was being facetious.
*When you realise America revolted from the UK cause of taxes*
The US revolted because of taxation without representation, not just too high taxes
@@duback1209 Uneccessary taxes that they believe to be unfair, HA they doing the exact same thing now
@@duback1209 tell that to american inmates
@@falkyraizu3063 The point is if enough americans thought it was unfair today the taxes would be gone, but back then no matter how many people disliked the taxes it didn't matter.
@@duback1209 The point is that the original post is accurate. America revolted because of taxes, and the fact that many of the taxes were unfair. It is very hypocritical to do the exact thing years later
Who's here after the CEO got lit up? lol
You know something's wrong with your country when your citizens go to the doctor less than other countries, but then still pay the most out of all of them.
I get what you mean, but it's not like we Americans don't go to the doctor less because we don't get into accidents or injuries less than other countries. We don't go to the doctor BECAUSE the cost is high. Because we have to pay the most, we are hesitant to ever go unless its for an actually serious injury
@@troger6895 Not surprised you are hesitant when an inhaler can cost $200-$300 , outrageous amount . In Europe it would be about $20-$25
Yeah, if only Americans weren't in such poor health and as obese as compared to other first world countries, causing health care costs to go up...apples to oranges comparison for U.S. citizens to Euros.
@@MrTarmonbarry
200 dollars for an inhaler correct me if I’m wrong but isn’t there lots of people in the US with (can’t spell it)
@@user-nb1eo2je3r Is asthma the word you are looking for ??
In the netherlands you have insurance and you also pay health taxes. Basically, you pay healthcare for others via taxes but when you need healthcare its free for you too
Same in Lithuania, you get insurance when you are employed and pay taxes, if you are unemployed, you may enter "labour exchange service" in your city and then they pay your tax and you get insurance until you find a job, if for some reason you get kicked out, you are obligated to pay 30+ euros a month (the tax) by yourself, in order to get the insurance and then you get "free healthcare". You can visit anyone you want and get any procedure you want, but the bad thing is, sometimes you have to wait months in line to get to a doctor or to get a surgery, not always, but it happens a lot
+Eonkuja
That is truly dreadful that you have to pay such high taxes in the Netherlands and then have to pay for insurance by force of the law.
Median income in the US is $65,000 which would be taxed at 12% in the Netherlands that same income would be taxed at 38% which is three times higher.
That is just truly terrible and I do feel sorry for you.
@@bighands69 I feel sorry for those thousands of dollars you had to give away for that broken arm.
Eonkuja, so it's really not free. Because you paid for your healthcare by paying for others via taxes. They do the same, pay their healthcare by paying yours cause you paid theirs....you're still paying for healthcare....it's just a way to "make it feel less bad". Essentially it's manipulation.
Here in Italy we pay only taxes, health insurance is optional.
Breaking bad in England has only 1 episode: walter white gets ill and goes to the doctor and gets his treatment. End of story
Am so Excited about this Dr. Jane got me treated from this virus Pneumonia, influenza A, common cold chlamydia, am really thankful to her.
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Breaking Bad in basically any other country. "You have cancer" - *Walter White looks shocked* - "Treatment begins next tuesday, be at this adress at 8:45 AM on empty stomach, have someone drive for you or get a taxi back"
@@lagg1e America has one of the shortest wait lists for cancer treatment in the world, if you have private healthcare that is...
one of the shortest for public healthcare and the shortest for private healthcare*
@@justinsimons3122 in the UK cancer treatment comes under what's called the "2 week rule" that means your treatment or assessment must happen within 2 weeks of any referral marked as such.
Cancer treatment is very quick over here.
My dad is an American and had an intermittent generalized weakness. He went to his doctor in LA and had him to run some tests, but they couldn't diagnose him. He just kept sending my dad home for observation, gave him vitamins. He even went to ER because things were getting worse. Each visit to the GP cost him 200 USD. 3 weeks went by and the weakness was still there they just kept on running tests, CT scans etc. I'm a doctor from another country and told him to just book a flight to my country and get the right treatment. He did and it turned out it was just a simple case of hypokalemia. He got treated here properly and everything went back to normal.
That is just blatant theft. Good to know you managed to get him to visit your country for a proper healthcare. May God bless y'all with good life.
If we may know, what country are you from?
I’m an American, and I can confirm that our healthcare system is hot steaming garbage. They only care about the sweet sweet green, and that’s all. They don’t care whether or not you have a life threatening wound or disease, they just want money.
@@indonesianbassbooster5167 as a Mexican I thought only we had stories of abuse/negligence in hospitals.
as a child I dreamed of living in the US, now as an adult I'm really glad I was born in the EU
Same thing here as a Canadian.
@internet person Same here, I wish our southern neighbours had a good system. :(
my biggest flex is not being american
i still dream of living in the us. and plan to do so.
@@Nana7ZX That’s your choice, do what you wish for.
Hello, I’m American. When I was about 4 I was diagnosed with S4 Neuroblastoma. Over the span of about 4-5 years of treatment my medical bills came around to roughly 2.5 million dollars. For a respective middle class family, and for anyone who isn’t in the upper-class, that isn’t pocket change. Fortunately, my family was covered by insurance so we weren’t financially devastated. For millions of people, however, the same can’t be said.
This is the main reason why universal healthcare is extremely important.
@authorityy sorry to hear you had to go through that. I live in the UK and I think our NHS is pretty awesome. I think everyone should have the right to not have to worry about massive bills whenever they need healthcare
Wow, nice that you get rid of cancer and also "lucky" you that you had insurance.
I have several people that had cancer, including my father, and he paid zero € in treatments for almost two years.
He only had to pay a small percentage of the medication he took, like 50€ per year.
I'm Portuguese btw.
In some countries with a universal healthcare system, you would not have a chance to survive, unfortunately... It's a huge price to pay, but I am glad that you are healthy and were covered by insurance.
@@njsfer he pays it with taxes mate, he didnt paid ¨Zero €¨. And more: He has probably paid more that the actual bill.
@@facundoghisio425 but then still better than dead
Imagine paying to give birth
*This comment was made by the European gang*
I'm from London and I can confirm
Oop :c help meeee
I live in America
Ecovita imagine paying taxes for somebody else’s healthcare
This comment was made by American gang
Ecovita in Spain’s it’s 2000 dollars the cost in American just giving birth is like 12,000 and if it’s not a easy birth it’s can go up to 30,000
Wait do you actualy have to pay for that?
As an old saying "It is cheaper to fly to travel to Spain in bussiness class flight, join equstrian club, ride a horse, break your femur there, getting it replaced, break it again, get it replaced again compared to getting it replace in america"
That's messed up
Break.
@@cakeisyummy5755 yea mistype down there
Femur breaker is extremely painful thou XD
As a Spanish I confirm 🤣 they ll literally perform surgery on you even if you re a tourist and it ll cost 0€
Imagine you broke your knees:
In the EU: Just call an ambulance
In the US: Do you wanna keep your house or your kneecaps?
not true
@@rowmin6433 kinda...
@@Blossom_-lp5wm A house costs several hundred thousand dollars. Knee surgery cost about 20k
@@rowmin6433 But still, where I live I would end up paying nothing (or in certain cases 2,79 bucks for a day in a hospital) thanks to our insurance system. If I need to go for a check-up, it's most of the times free. Childbirth? Around 600 bucks. Everything here is much cheaper than in the US.
@@klaranovakova7634
Either way the meme is wrong
If you get hurt don’t call 911 call an Uber lol
waiting for someone in privatized healthcare industry to lobby the government to pass a bill that ban uber for transporting potential patient to hospital under the name of "safety issue"
@@井吹ときと dont give them ideas
Or call a friend
Sad but true. My mom had to drive my sister to the hospital when she was experiencing anaphylaxis and couldn’t breathe because we couldn’t afford the ambulance. I had to sit in the backseat so she wouldn’t get a ticket.
Totally. Just a ride with the ambulance (with no treatment) can be 400 USD. It happened to me.
About a year ago I was severely depressed. I walked out of my workplace to my psychologists office and sat with someone for almost 2 hours. They determined that I was a danger to myself and refused to let me leave alone. I had 2 options. 1) call someone to pick me up and take me home or 2) go to hospital. I had nobody that I could contact, so they made me go to hospital. I was taken about 20 minutes in an ambulance, sat in the waiting room for about 30 minutes, then saw a doctor, who spoke to me for a while, gave me medication for my anxiety, and then referred me to another place.
I went home and it never cost me a single cent, here in Australia. Not even the psychologist or the place I was referred to costs me money. Yes, I pay a Medicare levy on my tax return, but it's small, and I still get a hefty tax refund each year regardless, so it feels like nothing. I don't earn a lot, I basically live paycheck to paycheck.
I can't imagine if I lived in America, and after such an ordeal was billed a few thousand dollars that I didn't have. Probably would have actually killed myself.
Some people literally fly to other countries to do surgeries. That’s how bad the US health system is.
a few thousand? oh sweetie. thats sounding about 20 grand. the ambulance alone is a thousand.
knew you weren't from the US the moment you said you sat in the waiting room for only 30 minutes
I saw a hospital bill of a person who had broken his neck while rock climbing, it was frikkin $346k for a week of treatment.
Guessing in the Indian doctor and British doctor reacts video??
@@nehadas5150 Yup
Lol it's not actually $346k. Most of tht will be covered. He would have to pay for about $8k of tht bill.
@zerog1037 if he has insurance at high premiums to cover it, lol 😂
*I'd be better off being homeless in my country than being poor in america.*
hahaha even north korea has universal healthcare while the usa does not
Rishi they also have 0 freedom
like my comment gurl I seriously doubt that
@@nothingatall3432 100% serious
@@nothingatall3432 can you imagine spewing out freedom when your country charges you for every little thing you do? like owning a house and owning your own car and having children and having a problem with your health. Yeah freedom!! by the way they also charge you for being a citizen like an ID.
Other Countries: *"Patient.."*
US: *"Customer.."*
Both are right.
stolen
@@zCane I am at the peak of mt Everest and I can't see who tf ask
@@ThatAdagio that's because the clouds are blocking your view, but yeah that @xonic comment was pretty useless
Nope. Now it's 'Client' and they offer 'products and services', not healthcare.
Other Countries : Patients
USA : Omg!! A *CUSTOMER*
Private healthcare exists all over Europe, it coexists beside a public healthcare system, but the private system is subsidized by the State
WAIT, what's your rush? What's your hurry?
@@YourMom-jd6jp i understood that reference
@@pedromeneses9617 you have 0 reason to choose the private sector and pay thousand when you can just go to a public hospital.
@@pedromeneses9617 yet private healthcare in Europe is still way cheaper compared to US...
A single week alone being admitted to the hospital cost my grandma entire life saving and insurance.
You Americans should do protests for it
@@chad807 they only protest for dead blk crims
We love it here!!!!
@@chad807 instead, we protest and storm the capital over supposed election fraud
@@chad807 And that happens because that is considered as communism by politicians
I love that they call it Lobbying when it’s really Corruption
it's just an inconvenient word to use for a third world country...
Bribery.
We always call it that when it’s another country, but yeah, when it happens in our own then it’s just “lobbying”.
yeah i just don't understand why US citizens allow this to happen, this in my country is a crime, and if a paty does it, the party will lose elections even if they were governing well.
@Bøņę Đąđđý Yes really, corruption is literally putting pressure on a political figure to sway their decisions away from the citizens best interest to your own interests by bribing them.
When my family was visiting America, my mom saw this woman that was using Food stamps. When she inquired the woman told her that she had a baby prematurely, and the medical bills were so high. She worked as a nurse and her husband worked as a firefighter. Not the most well paid jobs but none the less you would assume they would have spent a lot of time and effort preparing for their baby. How do you have medical bills that high; over a BABY?
Hate to inform you, but neither firefighters nor nurses rank in the top 10% of earners in the US; in fact, both nurses and firefighters tend to not get paid well at all. On a quick search, firefighters in the city I'm in sit around 35 to 45k a year in income, but this is a state capital and cost of living for a family of 3, without medical bills thrown in, is around 4k to 5k a month for a comfortable lifestyle. Yes, you can do cheaper. But medical bills for a pre-mature baby? Oh yeah that's gonna be brutal. Not to mention she's likely not getting paid leave to take care of her baby, so they're likely down her paycheck.
America, woo.
@@ygensand how bout Palm Springs? How are nurses and firefighters there
@@darkstock5103 wouldn't know; I'm sure a quick glance at indeed or a similar job hunter site could give you some numbers to work with in that regard. From there work out cost of living based on cost of gas, average rent/housing prices, and consider a staple food budget in that area from the price of things like eggs milk, bread, etc.
@@darkstock5103 Nurses and firefighters are never paid well(relatively speaking), regardless of country. In fact they're most likely near the bottom of the moneychain.
@@tappajaav Registered Nurse in NYC makes $100/hr and all benefits , firefighter makes over $100K year plus all benefits. same goes to teachers but in suburbs.
As I read in a comment from another TH-cam video:
"Welcome to America! The richest third world country that ever existed"
It literally is what it is.
That hit me hard
Have you ever had healthcare in a "3rd world country"? Where most nurses couldn't even be candy strippers in American hospitals and most doctors are basically on the level of an American nurse? I have many times.
@@user-zy1oh8jk7j Ye I have, they treated me well and I got it for 'free'.
@@user-zy1oh8jk7j That is the reason is the wealthiest 3rd world country.
As a kid i was like : wow life in America must be cool
Me after developing 2 braincells: NOPE NOPE NOPE...
better than china
@@skywishr1313 eating mud is better than eating poop
So with those brain cells you developed could you please explain how America isn't good? Besides how we have the biggest economy, highest GDP , an opulent welfare safety net, the most powerful military in the world, and civil rights to live your life as you please with out government over reach? Plus a million other things.. I mean we have room to improve but I'm interested to hear how terrible it is.
@@anonymous.1303 pretty sure there are different videos about this. I dont know a lot about this topic, but as a person that lives abroad, I feel like america isnt really the best country. i will try finding a good video because i dont rly know how to explain (sry for bad english, im still trying to learn)
@@groundblock7994 it's far from the best, but it's not like the "third world country with a gucci belt" that people say it is
I live in the UK, and when I was a kid, my family lived from paycheck to paycheck. My mother had an excruciating pain in her stomach and was rushed to hospital. The doctors found gallstones and conducted keyhole surgery to alleviate the pain, but found a strange lump on her ovary. Turns out that she was in the early stages of ovarian cancer. The doctors brought her in to remove the lump, and conduct a full hysterectomy just to be safe. She spent months in the hospital, and months after that in physical therapy. We had NO MONEY which we could have spared to even cover the basics of this cost, and yet by the time my mother was recovered, the bill was ZERO. The NHS (our healthcare system), paid for it all. If she hadn't been seen, if they hadn't conducted the surgery, they estimate I would have lost my mother at the age of sixteen, three years after diagnosis. I'm twenty now, still in the UK, and I've been to hospital for a broken arm, I've seen the doctor for excruciating headaches, and every time I walk out of there with no debt and no worries, and to this day, myself and my family are in perfect health. No matter what anyone EVER tells you about the NHS, it saved my mother's life, and it saves the life of someone's mother, father, daughter, son, every minute of every day. I would never trade it for the world.
Talia Jones We have absolute morons in the USA, i would love to have something like The NHS here but Republicans think free market where companies can rip you of is soo much more important than saving peoples lives and giving millions better living standards
Why do Americans take all these comments and views from abroad so personally? Its just thoughts and views from other people and other countries on what we have. And before you say I don't know what Im talking about, I grew up in Michigan alright. Im not American, nor am I European, nor am I a communist for living in Asia. No I do not pay higher taxes then all of you, I still pay $5 for a pack of ciggies, coffee at startbucks is still $3 or so, my free government medical facility is state of the art and not 10 years backwards, with acceptable waiting time. But yet I still have paid medical insuarance if I choose to use it. Im not saying this the the greatest but... you all have to realise or admit the rest of us have a better system than in the states. We're not attacking your medical system or trying to turn it into communism. We just hope you sort it out one day.
Scrooge Yeah, I'm pretty sure she knows what taxes are and how they work.
Scrooge McGruel it's the same in Sweden and you know what? Even though we pay pretty high taxes, I do pretty well. I don't care I very rarely go to the hospital, I gladly pay for those who do, through my taxes. 😊
So glad to hear you and your family are well! What a sunshine story! 👍❤️
I remember when I broke my leg last year the first thing I did is asking my mom if my insurance was still good, and it was not, it had expired the week before so I made my mom wait to take me to the hospital till we renewed the plan the next day.
I did not want her to add more the outrageous medical bills she already had.
So welcome to America, it's not worth living here
I broke a shoulder, my right hand, tibia and fibula and i never had an insurance, i paid 0 euros. As an italian i can't understand a state without free healtcare
We would appreciate it if you just went somewhere else if this is the deal breaker.
@@jeffcivjeep7 oof the salt
@@jeffcivjeep7 You do realize a lot of us are trying to, it's just that the fact that we're in crippling debt because of a single ambulance ride means we physically can't without getting extradited. I was born here, and now i'm gonna stay here until i pay off 3x my student loans in medical debt because i didn't have insurance, despite wanting to leave. What a fun and functional system we have here.
eu amigo te cambio venite a vivir a Argentina y yo me voy para alla dale es un oferton
Imagine putting a price tag on someone's life.
exactly what happen
Cuz money is the American corrupt dream
America’s been doing it since slavery...
That sounds like the dark web lol
I’d like to have good healthcare
I was in India when I fell ill after a long trip, and visited a government clinic in Kerala, India. They charged me 2 rupees ($.025) for doctor's consultation and gave me free antibiotics and electrolytes. Recovered fully on the 3rd day. Never forget that excellent experience.
Average salary in India: $1,800 per year.
@@fatherson59074726$. And india is the fith largest economy
When it comes to the point where you or a loved one tells you even when they’re dying to not call an ambulance for them, you know this is a terrible country.
People have to risk speeding driving their own love ones to the hospital. This is just mad.
@@xenathornburg2416 Cost of an ambulance. Sometimes $2,000. Cost of a speeding ticket, $115 plus a strike on your license record, assuming you don't get it tossed out in court witch for medical emergencies judges often will.
@@terricon4 Really? Do you have to pay 2.000$ for an ambulance in USA? That's f up. We have to pay money worth only 18$
@@esccranberry6625 i get it for free
My buddy had an accident where his leg was between a train and the trainstation. For weeks it was not clear if he could keep his leg or if the doctors had to amputate it. He had more than 15 surgeries for which he did not have to pay. The ambulance was for free and he gets a part of his salary while he is recovering. This is how it works in germany.
A few weeks after it was clear he could keep his leg, I read an article where a woman who had a similar accident did not want an ambulance because she could not afford it. This absolutely terrified me because I know what could have happened if my buddy had not gotten medical treatment as soon as possible.
I really hope you improve your healthcare system because I do not want anybody to suffer from a disease or a injury just because the person can not afford medical treatment.
America = Expensive healthcare, expensive college, expensive car loans, expensive home mortgage, etc...
America is the land of money first. Everything is for profit.
Gov't tends to make things more expensive.
but we are free (as long as you're not born penniless) yaaay
Change expensive to prohibitive cost.
@@victorfernandes4732
Well, not really free.
The General Court is a collective term for rights everyone and all in Norway has to use nature, regardless of who owns the land.
Tours in the woods and in the mountains, on foot and skiing, swimming, camping max 2 days, anchoring of boats, harvesting wild berries and flowers and recreational fishing in the sea are examples of such rights.
The public rights mainly apply to outlying areas.
The General Court has existed in Norway for a long time
Anyone finds out they have cancer
Normal people
*"ok,treatment starts tomorrow"*
Americans
*Breaking Bad opening*
Passos nobody in single payer programs gets to see a doctor in one day . Thats the problem
Christian Soldier Dude, I don’t even know where you get this from. If I have something I can go to the doctor tomorrow first thing without even calling. They won’t like it because they have a schedule aswell, but they can’t reject me. If I have something more severe I can go to the 24hr ER service by myself and get myself checked in 30 mins. If I have something even more severe I can call an ambulance and get attended immediately. All payed for by my insurance. My fathers Job gives us insurance, if he loses that job the government will IMMEDIATELY take it over, payed for by my fellow Germans in the form of taxes. I will never have to pay by myself for necessary medical help. Is that sort of information that „oh you never get to see a doctor“ made up?? Quit it.
@@7invader Germans dont have single payer health insurance .
@@christiansoldier77 : True, but it doesn't matter. In the UK, where they *_do_* have single payer healthcare (and "worse", the medical treatment is actually provided by government employees!), you do have to wait a bit for elective surgery, but if you have something serious like cancer, *you literally CAN be seen by a doctor the next day.*
@@Milesco Yeah , IF you have something like cancer but for like say a sprained foot you will have to wait
Who in the heck charges 600 dollars for a 15 minute visit. The US medical system. Everything about the US medical system is price gouging seriously a monopoly, and ignores many health problems. So why is it so expensive, when patients don't get proper care.
Here in Canada we used to have a pay-as-you-go health system like the USA. There was a huge political fight when the premier of the Province of Saskatchewan, Tommy Douglas, introduced provincial Medicare. Practically the whole North American health industry lined up against him -- there was even a doctor's strike that lasted 3 weeks! Yet in the end Medicare became the law in Saskatchewan and, to the surprise of many, it worked very well. It worked so well that even the doctors embraced it -- as businesspeople, the doctors realized it was more profitable for them, too, because they didn't have to pay the same business administration costs to maintain their own back office staff, and they didn't have to chase bad debts. In fact, Saskatchewan's Medicare system worked so well that it became the model for Canada's beloved "Universal" health care system. And Tommy Douglas, the premier who faced such political opposition, is now remembered as a national hero.
Do things just not change in the US? Is the government that corrupt? Do the population do nothing about it? Thats scary
what about the doctors working in hospitals
@@adeshkantha7034 There are 3 sectors in the Canadian healthcare system: Public, Private, and Voluntary. The public sector is made up of administrators, support staff, EMO workers, pharmacists and nurses who're paid by the government, either on an hourly rate or on salary. The private sector include private businesses like insurance companies, and the doctors and dentists who're professionals in private practice and who bill the government for professional services rendered (this includes non-salaried doctors practicing in hospitals). The voluntary sector includes the charities, service clubs, and religious orders who own, build and maintain the hospitals, clinics, etc.
In the Canadian system there's room for all 3 sectors. There's also an overlap -- for example some doctors own private clinics and charge the government fees for professional services, according to the government's scale. Whatever isn't covered by the government, like "tray fees" etc., is paid either through the patient's own private sector insurance or directly out-of-pocket by the patient him/herself.
As I mentioned, when Tommy Douglas brought in Medicare, one of the things that finally got the private sector doctors on side was that, under Medicare, they were making more money than they were before, because their overall business expenses were less. The doctors still kept their own offices with receptionists and nurses, but their overhead was lower because they didn't need accountants and bill collectors on staff anymore. The government paid their bills, so the doctors didn't need to cover the same back-office administration costs.
"as businesspeople, the doctors realized it was more profitable for them, too, because they didn't have to pay the same business administration costs to maintain their own back office staff" - this. In the US non-medical personnel make vasts amount of money from the healthcare system. That is completely unacceptable and the reason why healthcare costs are so high in the US.
@@messi9991 yeah you could cut the cost of healthcare by half without cutting into the salaries of doctors/nurses, rather you could just cut costs in middlemen administration processing costs and so much more.
One of the unique part of Japan’s national health care is it gears toward prevention.
Standardized, annual health check/monitor is a common program, and it’s mandatory for most workers and students.
To be able to detect an illness on early stage has save a lot of lives and yen for the health care program.
Also, it allows people to know one’s health risk so they can change their problematic habit, again, it’s much easier to improve before it gets serious.
In Spain we have this for kids, maybe every year or two up to 14 years old. After that it's not mandatory, but you can probably get it.
It seems like such a better method. In Spanish we have a saying "mejor prevenir que curar" which means "it's better to prevent than to cure" which is what Japan has I guess.
Wow, Great
@@anaisalvarez6017 I grew up in spain and this was the mentality I grew up with, I still go to check ups every year now that I live on the Netherlands which is seen as weird but my doctor agrees with me
Also in spain it moves faster then here in the Netherlands actually. Yeah you have to wait longer in the waiting room but at least I only have to wait a week for an mri compared to a month here in the Netherlands
Putting a priority on prevention probably also saves a crapload of money for when it's needed on the treatment end. What a concept. But, if it has the word social in it it's just too unAmerican.
Most preventative care in the US is free with the most basic health insurance. People just don’t go. Too busy making the world a better place for everyone else.
I am an expert in the U.S. healthcare system. My entire professional career involved hospital consultancy and I personally consulted in over 20 hospitals, including some of the largest in the country. The description presented by Mr. Klein is entirely correct though the depth of the financial corruption of the relevant aspects of our political system is much worse.
The other argument that is so often made by politicians is that "we have the finest health care system in the world". We most definitely do not. In fact, it is more often just mediocre when measured by results. Then we are also told that we don't want "socialized medicine" or "government medicine" (I guess that means Medicare and Medicaid) because in countries that have those systems, people in desperate need have to wait long periods of time for treatment. That is only a half truth at best. The fact is that many highly advanced modalities of therapy are only available in Europe or Asia (usually Japan). I was recently speaking with the CFO and a board member of one of the major university hospitals in the 4th or 5th largest U.S. city. There they charged "private pay" (i.e. uninsured) patients $7200 for an ultrasound study that was usually done in local physicians' offices for about $200.
Sound fair to you?
No it does not
Get yourself out the US go over to Europe you’ll have no worries and better live
@@chasiah7101 Europe doesn't want more Americans leaching their systems and benefits and I don't blame them. Just cause your country isn't doing good in some places doesn't mean you just run away to "greener grass". We have to fix our own problems, not put weight on other countries just because they worked certain problems out on their own already.
@@chasiah7101 Nobody understands that the U.S pays way less in tax than most other European countries. Plus, we are the ones pouring in most of YOUR defense military budget (NATO) so that obviously makes it easier for European countries to have free healthcare. The U.S is the reason why Europeans are living so comfortable.
Immortal Legend yeah, no lol that is literally not true at all. Europeans do not live great because of US funding, that’s ridiculous. We may support NATO a lot, but we also have the largest GDP. This Europeans countries contribute and agreed-upon amount based on their GDP. They live great because their government cares more about the citizens instead of having the world’s largest military budget and spending $500k on mugs for the military.
This video is extremely Relevant right now ._.
Imagine carrying a child for 9 months and then being told that you have to pay to hold it
Just go abroad to give birth in another country then go back when the baby is born.
@@electroskates2434
"...then go back when the baby is born."
or not...
@@TheCyrix1 yup
@@electroskates2434 you seriously don't see a problem in a system that makes a mother pay money just to hold her newborn baby?
@@unimpressedsquidward3059 To be fair, it's not 'just to make a mother hold her newborn baby'. There are procedures in place to safeguard both the mother's and baby's health. These procedures require equipment and personnel, and thus money. Water is also free if you go drink from the river, but if you want clean drinking water brought right to your tap at home, then you have to pay for the services that made it possible. I think it's cheap considering the convenience society gets out of it.
A lot of European countries have a great healthcare system that subsidizes things like these so that the cost becomes a (partially) shared burden of society. Germany has more than 1 year of parental leave in case of child birth for instance. Obama tried to move in this direction with Obamacare as well, but US citizens hated it so much that they voted for the guy that promised he'd get rid of it.
USA PROBLEMS NO ONE TALK ABOUT:
*Fast food in public schools
*College/university(80k-100k 4 years)
*Student debt highest than credit card debt or house debt
* healthcare costs
Meat and dairy companies lobbying Congress to keep giving cancer and diabetes so pharmacies and healthcare people keep being rich
Jessi G true
Fast food isn't allowed to be sold in public school anymore...it hasn't been for like 20 years lol. Cant even have junk food of any kind being sold on campus. Other points are on point though.
Fast food in *hospitals*, even! Many American dentists even hand out candies. But this seems to be everywhere. Is there any western nation in which this isn't the case?
@@first782 It's still in the schools.
@@courteneyclark5626 Maybe its just banned in my state, idk the laws for this topic in other states.
My wife gave birth to my first son in 2016, then she stayed for 3 days for recovery. The cost? it was free. Why? Because here in Indonesia, most of the citizens joined a government insurance program called BPJS. It charges only around 4 USD monthly.
US Health-Care system is a JOKE!!
We are asia we so cheap
What else can you expect from a country that literally spends its entire budget for declaring a war with literally everyone lol. Btw you're Indonesian? We're the same then
@@neutrivictoire.1833 721.5 billion USD for the military and it just keeps on rising I mean really they have better things to do with that money
@@pooppoop6546 sadly, those warmongering tyrants have nothing to do but waging wars with everyone, so they will be called "SaViOur AnD pEAceKEepEr"
@@pooppoop6546 they donate the unused equipment to the police. and you know what the police does.
Living in the uk and the most you ever pay (unless you are private) is about £9 for a prescription make me realise how lucky we are to have heavily subsidised health care. You get hit by a car, get airlifted put in icu and on a ventilator for 30 days and have 7 different surgeries, in the us that’s probably 1.5 million, in the uk that’s free
NHS are treating me right now, glad to be living in UK
Now I realize USA is not a perfect country. Even being the richest country in the world it doesn't make USA the best in quality of life.
Lucas Maciel Fonseca yeah the the USA has a good amount of corruption
@@kingofdemons948
Have you been to Mexico?
Emporer Relinquish trust me I have
USA is actually the 12th richest as of 3 months ago. Qatar is number 1
@@cydra-evolution5623 At least in Mexico people have free medical system...
When I was a kid, I was really sick and had to be in the hospital for 10 days. The bill my parents received was for over $50,000.
We had insurance. It maxed out the deductible and our maximum out of pocket spend for the year. They still owed $7,500.
The cost of healthcare is truly obscene.
F i hope you are good now
Wow, can’t imagine that in Canada.
@@whatzmyusrname well not ganna defend US's healthcare but you gotta wait for several hours at waiting room for non life threatening injuries...
@@Sam-Striker-1 I’ll rather wait for an appointment than worry about the costs.
@@Sam-Striker-1 id much rather wait 4 hours than have my family sell their car to pay for my existence. i’m currently on the waiting list for a scan to see if i have a life threatening condition, have been for about a month, but i am perfectly willing to wait several more months. i’ve had free orthodontics, including full braces, free surgeries and overnight stays in hospital when i was really sick. my friend who oded had 4 days in hospital in intense recovery units, and her parents didn’t have to pay a penny for her full recovery. i don’t come from a high income family, and we wouldn’t of been able to afford the medication i’ve been on since i was 11 to prevent the development of said life threatening condition that i potentially have. free healthcare is incredible
American health care system is cool as long as you're healthy.
True. It's horrible horrible for people born with medical conditions... the pricing can go into hundreds of thousands (or million) over a child's lifetime if they were born with conditions that require specific treatment or lifelong medication
YEEEAH, AMERICA! FREEDOM!
Also there's a theory about America trying to avoid over population or maybe it's just corrupted.
People have to pay thousands of dollars a year, sometimes a month for insurance. With private insurance the copay for a checkup for me (a minor) is $90
That's literally the opposite
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Ever heard about Carl Jason Cohen
Stop commenting roasting Americans, I'm tired of liking all the comments
just take my like
Not gonna lie , they had us in thé first part
now this is a good one
Best country in the world haters are always going to hate.
@PB Assassinz
You gotta love people being ironic! My best part of the internet.
My father lives in california and the dentist were charging him 30k to fix his teeth. Instead of doing that he would drive down to Mexico to get his teeth fixed. He went around 6-7 times, on the weekends. He slept at hotels, paid for fuel, food, and the dental bill. At the end, he fixed his teeth and spent a fraction of the price, combined around 6,500.
Should have gone to Canada....
That isn't bad, as long as your father's teeth were fixed. Mexico isn't exactly the best country.
dental care tends to get more and more expensive everywhere, but still, 30 big ones for fixing teeth? Did your father want to get all his teeth replaced with diamonds?
@@matemm52 not going to lie, he didn't take care of himself for quite some time.
Wow
I love the fact that you can pay $200 in the US for a regular check up compared to £0 in most of the EU
Here in Belgium just fo a consult about 5 euros, it depends (sometimes less/sometimes more).
In Ecuador, it's like 20 dollars a check up
In brazil it cost 40 usa dollars to get a doctor check up sometimes they can be free depending on the hospital
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In Argentina we have completely free healthcare system, u can get complete cancer treatment for free.
I went to the ER last year and got a CT scan for a kidney stone (I went because I I thought it might’ve been appendicitis). No ambulance, no overnight stay, no removal or dissolution of the small stone. Just a few hours at the hospital and the bill to insurance was just shy of $8,500. Luckily my insurance covered all but about $250 of it.
In malaysia we call the U.S “America Syarikat” which literally means “American Company”.
AdmHarrr makes sense
lol, as a Malaysian, I agree
makes sense
XD
You not wrong thro
4:24 "Those are huge industries now, and they have a lot of influence in Congress."
That's exactly where the problem is, they shouldn't have any influence
True.
That when the country turns upside down.
i love how americans bring the fact that they have a powerful military as an excuse for having a flawed healthcare system
Smh got the wrong priorities
america's paranoid about losing to russia
@@ghyul6263 to be fair I would be too seeing as to how aggresive they've been lately. Its best to be prepared at least. But even then I do agree they should focus on the people then defending an attack that might not happen as soon as we think. Like we have so many great and amazing allies like almost all of Europe, south Korea, Japan, etc. Hope things change soon. That the next president at least can do something about this
Tbh, even America's military is flawed
@Prophet let me guess
school system, the guns thing and racism?
I'm from India and my father had to get angioplasty a year ago.
We had 2 choices
1. Get it done for free in a public govt aided hospital
2. Get it done in a private hospital
Since there was a waiting list in the govt hospital we decided to go to private hospital. It was a week long stay. We got the best healthcare facilities and the whole procedure including everything costed us INR 125,000 (around $1700) and every single penny of our bill was paid by the health insurance. We had to pay literally nothing.
so basically india not only has a public healthcare system, but the private system from india is also better than the private system from usa
holly molly 😂
by the way, I hope you and your father are doing great, even tho that was 4 years ago
The American Heath care is like EA
You’re so right, and I’m gonna use this comparison, thank you!
hEAlthcare
E-A hEAlth... IT'S IN THE BILL.
@@quino765 LOL
Want to get life saving surgery? 20k and we’ll give you the ‘Alive’ gamepass
GoFundMe is our healthcare lol
Sad but true
Sad??? Its wonderful.
@@coolbeans6148 wonderful that your government doesnt include healthcare under the tax paid services?
@@floriansoos4716 yes
@@coolbeans6148 k then
A few days ago, I had breakfast at home, went to the hospital, got hand surgery, and was home for dinner the same day. It cost me $10 for the bus fare.
Can you believe that some people in the US still think that it's communism?
Which country are you from
@@sourishsaha8067 Greece
Does the $10 include your taxes?
Someone else paid for it.
healthcare is a human right, of course it needs to be payed for, and someone has to foot the bill, but the bill should cost as little as its feasibly possible to cost, not as high as it can cost till people say no. healthcare should not be a business it should be a service. in most countries, education is also a service, even up to higher levels of education. its literally for the benefit of all of society.
Searching for Hospitals in Other Countries: Sort usingBest Rating
Searching for Hospitals in US: Sort using price Low to High
Incorrect. Other countries there is no need to search.
Go to the Hospital nearest to you. They all offer quality healthcare. There are constantly monitored to ensure there offer a quality of healthcare.
Sometimes your GP will refer you to a specialist who works in specific hospitals. So you go to the hospital on a day he has allocated time of a surgical unit.
@@davidlean8674 Depends on what treatment you need. But most of the time you can go to the nearest hospital and then will send you to one that specialized in that treatment like for example cancer.
@@davidlean8674 Not quite. Some hospitals are significantly more understaffed or have a higher percentage of trainees. They can also have less beds per person in the area. This means they're less likely to admit you and you're less likely to get treatment. Also, if you're certain your condition requires a specific specialist, it is wise to go to a hospital where that specialist is readily available rather than a different one, from which you will be transferred to the hospital with the specialist present anyway.
Ah. The ratings is a thing I only use for mental hospitals. Really if you are in therapy for 13 years in and out you prefer being treated like a human being.
@@egorsilovs156 It is best to go to nearest hospital in case of emergency. If they are not specialized in the treatment of the injury they will refer you to the right hospital. If you are certain and it is not an emergency you can go directly to the hospital which is specialized in the treatment
Vox: *Shows why US healthcare is so expensive*
US Government: *You weren't supposed to show them..*
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The problem is that they didn't tell you the whole story. You were shown precious little evidence with conclusions drawn from false premises.
Funny cause this whole video is factually wrong
can you three guys tell why the video is oh so wrong?
@Solstice of Snow So then why do all the other countries which have ultra super Obamacare ++ have lower prices? More Obamacare solves the problem it seems.
After watching this it made me realized how much I appreciate living in country that gives us better health and safe care services.
amogus
In India if you are a government employee then you got free medical healthcare for free.
@@adityaraj2001 yea that too of the best quality
And if you're having meduclem And state savings
You get free health care from top notch hospital like appolo
But single-handedly coming to Chennai for health care is of best quality but still unaffordable 😭😭
@@pradipchaterjee9576 India doesn't have good healthcare lol
I'm from Brazil and you right!
Had a terrible toothache for a month. Went to dentist and they said dental care is not covered. Ended up buying whiskey and pliers watching TH-cam videos of people pulling out their teeth. I tried and tried to get help. America is far from perfect and we tell others how to live. Pretty depressing if you think about the world.
I'll give you the real reason why:
1. Massive lobbying by pharmaceutical companies.
So true, lobbying devalues the voice of the people through brute legal bribery.
He mentioned it in the video
Doubtful, it's more likely the fact that 45% of Americans are on govt sponsored healthcare and insurance companies mediating those plans have zero incentive to negotiate lower prices. If you give those companies a profit motive while regulating their policies to ensure equal quality of care then our healthcare will be a lot cheaper very quickly.
@@jacob2359 'If you give those companies a profit motive while regulating their policies ': thats why they are lobbying, to make sure no regulation is brought in to hinder there greed.
@@IANC4EVER Uh, no one lobbies to get rid of legislation. Less regulation allows better performing ideas to succeed, and big businesses know they can't outcompete everyone. This is why McDonalds lobbies for the $15/hr minimum wage, why pharmaceutical companies lobbied in favor of Obamacare/ACA, because more regulations and higher costs can be eaten by a big companies bottom line. It's the competition that can't handle excessive regulations or increasing the bottom line. Haven't you ever wondered why big corporations support leftist policies so often despite how anti-corporation they're painted?
"No society can legitimately call itself civilised if a sick person is denied medical aid because of lack of means". Nye Bevan 1948,. Start of British Health Service.
Peter Matten Ok, that really bring the feels. Very true indeed.
I am pretty certain that you can look in any lexicon on earth and that is not the definition of "civilized." And mind you that every country does this, even the British health care system. At some point, health care is refused to do to cost vs likely outcome.
So the majority must suffer for the feckless few? My mother never smoked a cigarette in her life but she got cancer , my cousin was born with a heart defect, and was operated on by the top heart surgeon in the country, cost? Nothing. We pay for this by our weekly or monthly wage. If you become unemployed, or sick and are unable to work,the government pays. How do you know what the future holds for you? Long term illness? car accident? job loss? Family congenital illness.? When we are young we support others, when we are older we benefit. It is affordable when we all pay.
That seems a big trouble to you. But having the money taken out from your paycheck to to buy to privates a fighter jet that drops bombs killing dozen, and hundreds around the globe, that sounds more virtuous to you. Your words are the sign of the collapse of the reasonable civilization. People who think like you, who unfortunately are proliferating like mushrooms after a rain storm, will bring human kind to the Stone Age.
@Uliks
The point of government is not to be moral. It is to protect the rights and interests of its citizens. No government on earth exists to protect other countries citizens above their own. War is a part of having boards, borders are a part of identifying collective identity. You can't compare personal morality and then apply it social justice.
I broke my hand recently and all i could think of was thank god i dont live in America.
The pain of breaking her hand didn't even enter your head? I wish I was that strong
I am so jealous of other countries and there healthcare system
Fight me . In AMerica you can go in any emergency room and get treatment
I did aswell. Paid 10$ for everything at the emergency Center in Sweden. While i was home 6 weeks im getting paid 80% of the salary from the swedish social insurance.
@@robineliasson8080 Yeah because you take money from the people that earn it and give to other people who didnt earn it
Walter white had to become a drug lord to pay his hospital bills
The American way of life....
I come from Korea that has some of the best medical technology at a price of nothing to less than $100. When I came to the US and realized that they actually make you pay for the ambulance ride it made me wanna throw up.
Wonton yeah, my ambulance ride not that long ago was almost 400. which is a 10 min drive from where i live.
Hail kim, for providing the best healthcare in the world!
Wonton I had a Korean girl have a seizure in my print lab while her class was doing a demonstration(I was working at a university at the time) and after the seizure she had to refuse any care. It made me angry because I knew she took medications in Korea but couldn't bring them into the US, and she couldn't afford to buy her medication here.
My only experience with medical problems outside the US was France and it was so much more streamlined than here. Hell, I dropped my motorcycle on my foot and I'm just living with the ache because it's not worth the cost. Not because I can't afford it but because spending 79 dollars just to be seen isn't worth it, and that's with insurance I get as a benefit of being in the military which does tell doctors how much they can charge.
Ambulance ride provided by your local government extorting you in crisis
Wonton I think you have to pay for the ambulance in Belgium too, well... if the insurance doesn't cover what you did. A friend of mine was so drunk once he had to go to the hospital and he had to pay for the ambulance
I feel like you're missing an important chart at the beginning: one that shows that American healthcare outcomes are actually worst than in a lot of other countries that use single-payer healthcare.
If they were paying more for better health than that'd be understandable. But right now their system doesn't even produce the best results, despite having the highest price!
Correct. Just because it's the most expensive, doesn't mean it's the best.
Shut up, boomer.
Matthew Fohl I’m 26 you genius
Great point. We pay all this money just so doctors can amputate the wrong limb.
Whenever I speak with my friends in Europe, Australia, Asia and telling them how am I get treated when sick, they ask if I really live in USA and not in a third-world country. The worst system for people who are paying their health insurance 3 times more than in any western country.
Well, I live in Brazil, a "3rd world" country, and we have universal free healthcare around here aswell...just saying
@@cassioperpetuocunha4243 aqui a gente tem, o SUS é bem lento, pelo menos é de graça
@@klaus120 é aquela parada, o SUS já nasceu sucateado. Ninguém quis investir no começo, então ele funciona aos trancos e barrancos desde o começo.
Mas po, pra algo sucateado do jeito que é, o SUS é bonzão
I often hear something like "The US are the only first world country that have a quality of life of a third-world country"
And this is not only talking in health. I already heard it in security and education debates
@@danielrelva exato
In AustraliaI, head a heart attack died, was resuscitated at a regional hospital with a defibulater, driven to an airfield where an air ambulance was waiting with a doctor, nurse, and pilot. I was flown to our state capital. I was put in an ambulence with lights and sirens. Had open heart surgery (6.5 hrs) followed by 48 hrs in an induced coma in ICU followed by 5 days on a ward with pain killers and physiotherapy. They transported me back home... My bill was.................ZERO$
I really had a new found respect for my country's free healthcare after seeing this.
Yeah, you should.
MachoMachoMan Vert same, I’m so thankful I was born in Australia 🇦🇺
U should really watch Less vox
@@justjuli3t We are basically brothers im NZ.
@@ezekiel8660 why tho
You know, just because one model is good for one thing, like how capitalism is good for having a free market and creating jobs, however, just because it works for products and objects doesn't mean that it's a perfect solution for everything. Healthcare isn't a product, it's a service that you don't have any power to refuse. In the free market you can you choose to go for the less expensive option or to not buy at all if the price exceeds your budget, but when it comes to health you NEED to get it or your other options are some variation of a terrible sickness which impedes productivity or death.
Like food.
I'm not American, so I can't know for sure, but according to another of Vox's videos, you can't even know how much you are going to pay for many of your medical services. At that point, it's not even capitalism anymore.
cassi farcas It's true. Trying to ask for an estimate of an average hospital stay for giving birth is impossible. Prescriptions may cost one price for 1 insurance plan and another price for a different plan even within the same insurance company. It takes forever to know if you're deductible is met. There are a lot of potentially expensive unknowns, and that alone is extremely stressful.
Juan Perret it is a need, but how inhumane it may sound it is not a right
Marvin you do realize you wouldn't and i mean 100% would not exist if it wasn't for medicine. It is one of the literal reasons why humanity has even maid it to this point. Saying that is like saying that you may as well go back to the dark ages were 40 was your maximum life expectancy. Not saying we don't have to pay anyone for it but humans by this point should have the guaranteed right te be able to receive medical treatment without death seaming like the better option over the bill to heal you.
Was in a caraccident in sweden, a combine of 7 days in 2 different hospitals. Ambulance transport from one to the other (about 180km) full treatment, multiple headscans. Ended up paying 1000 swedish crowns which I got 700 back from my insurance. (120 dollars at the time and got 84 back) this was followed by multiple rehabilitation sessions and one eye surgery which was all free, This is why I gladly pay my taxes and live a life where I dont have to constantly worry what would happen if something happened to me.
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Plus you gets paid leave from your job(if your country has the system and it can be 80% of salary or 60% in some countries) and can join after recovering.
That's called FREEDOM
Even if a US single payer system were just as expensive as our current one, I'd still prefer it. That way, we are far less likely to be tricked by insurance companies into paying for what we don't need.
America: We spend MONEY on our HEALTHCARE because it's the BEST. You're all FREELOADING on our INNOVATIONS.
Also America: Falling life expectancy.
@Maaahaaah Yes, what's the proof?
sounds like someone has never been outside the US :D
Also America: Let's just sit here and have McDonald's for dinner again shall we?
Roasting Americans to feel better about yourselves. Sad
@@Tech-cy9yo more like roasting americans because its true
I had two surgeries in the UK while I was studying for my Masters degree (as an International Student) and I didn't have to pay for those surgeries as well as the pre/post-surgical care I got. I feel indebted to that country and that's one of the reasons I have a soft spot for the UK
Lucky you, we've heard about how long it takes the NHS to schedule and do a surgery. Shoot, Canada has a 20 week waiting period for surgery and you got 2 done? You're pretty lucky man.
@@jacob2359 And just now we've heard the exact opposite. "Hearing things" from media outlets or anecdotal sources with a slant might just prove to be a pretty unreliable source of information after all. :thonking:
@@brianbethea3069 On one hand that true. On the other hand I heard this from a Canadian Public Policy think tank: www.fraserinstitute.org/categories/health-care-wait-times
So it's likely the data is pretty reliable. But hey, I've got great anecdotal events like how the NHS cancelled thousands of surgeries last year due to the flu season: www.google.com/amp/s/www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/01/02/nhs-hospitals-ordered-cancel-routine-operations-january/amp/
At the same time, how is UK’s economy doing in general? Do you think it’s economically stable to force citizens to pay taxes for someone else’s health coverage? Personally as an American, I work for my health benefits and I am glad I am not forcing others to pay it for me.
@@jacob2359 Ah, and here I was thinking that you were just talking about how lucky he was to be able to get two surgeries in the time he was there. But just twenty days for wait time? A masters degree generally takes two years, that's a lot of 20 week periods. 5 of them, really. For that reason, I had assumed you were talking about wait times upwards of 52 weeks, which would be pushing it into unlikely territory, but I think that's more than enough time to have two surgeries scheduled and completed with a 20 week waiting period. Not sure how that makes him a lucky man.
I lived the first 30 years of my life in America being told how it is the greatest country on Earth. It didn't take long traveling abroad to see through this lie. I've spent the past 15 years living in Switzerland and have not even gone back to the U.S. for a visit. Best decision of my life, as I've been watching things only get worse over there.
great! I love it there. What do you do for work may I ask?
lol my friend was a chinese foreign exchange student here in usa and he tells me all the time (hes back in china) how much he regrets studying in america
Good, America is so great it allows you to do just that...leave.
I immigrated here and love it, in Europe I would have to conform to collectivism, here I am responsible for my own decisions, make 3 times the money compared to anywhere in the world and enjoy pretty much everything.
Funny thing is I have a Friend who is also an Engineer like myself, He lives in Vern and He is hoping to get his green card so he can move to Florida.
@@masterA05 Why do you need to know where he works? Are you looking for personal information about him that you can use to discredit him? Perhaps if he is poor then we shouldn't listen to him. Is that what your question is meant to accomplish? If you don't mind me asking?
@@SeñorGenerator_HTX You are not from Europe so stop lying. I can tell by how you wrote your comment. Your not as clever as you think.
I have been in hospital 3 times in Australia. Fracture 0 day, fracture, laceration 2 day stay, laceration/ eye infection 2 weeks stay. I paid nothing from my pocket. Medicare or Public Health paid for all of it.
I broke my c3 c4 and c5 in a car accident had to have a Halo brace with screws going into my head, had to learn how to walk again. It cost about half a million for it all, even had a neck specialist flown up from Colorado to do the surgery, this was all done in Vancouver general hospital i was in and out in a month. all free because i am Canadian. I didn't wait for any of it and never had to wait for anything, including dental or any other procedure or surgery. all free.
No wait for anything in Canada? Everything that is not an emergency is a long wait. MRI is 9 month wait. Hernia surgery is 4 months wait. To see a spine specialist 1 year wait. Calgary, AB. Try again. Don't even try to compare Canadian socialized healthcare to US.
@@markgorman4805 bro in the middle of COVID in Scotland I had a non important toenail needing removed and it took a week also quite ironic Americans don’t say that there country can’t afford it but then u look at USA military budget
@@themightypars4453 Not sure what your point is. Not afford what? In US you have private insurance, that is much better than any government system.
@@markgorman4805 let's be clear that even if what you said was true. The difference is that anyone from low middle class and down just wouldn't get to go to a hospital. And would probably really feel the pain of the financial costs. If they're lucky they'll be able to get it through their job and still be very hurt from the costs.
@@markgorman4805 It factually isn't. You literally don't have that argument because by ever measure it just isn't.
On top of that, insurances vary so wildly you can't even generalize it.
US : land of the free
Also US : you need $2000 for an ambulance ride lol
"Land of the Free" Lol you know we still have to pay taxes every year on land that we own right? Also houses we own, that we've paid for in full.
$2000 _per mile_ for ambulance
In America you don't have to wait a year to get a surgery. If you loose the American healthcare system, there ain't no place for Canadians to go.
@@1911dawg wait, you think Canadians want Americans healthcare?? You do realise even in places with public healthcare that the option for paying out of pocket for a private system is still there
@@mspaint93 I know, and the government healthcare is so bad that public clinics suggest private clinics admitting how bad government healthcare is. Though why would you pay the extra taxes if you go to a private clinic?
When i broke my ankle it cost me $200, 9 days/nights @ the hospital, 2 surgeries, breakfast, lunch, dinner and a little snack at night...
A year later, i removed a metal plate and 7 screws, it cost me $30 ish. Hurray sweden =D
Raketbaever broke mine in March, spent 3 days in hospital
, 2 surgeries (including hardware removal) - free of charge :) love the NHS
I once had a simple blood test in US without health insurance, & it cost me $900+ $200 for one doctor appointment. I was pissed off because they drew my blood first, without telling me it would cost so much. If I knew, I would have refused it.
I just spent 9 days in the hospital in canada
Didn't cost me a penny
Warriors Panthers fan since 2015 Yeah, the crime is so terrible in Sweden unlike in the US where there is hardly ever any crime.
wrong. they might have to wait for say, a knee replacement, but not for urgent life threatening illness or injury. if youre gonna argue, read up first. you look foolish.
1.) Education for medical professionals is private and for profit.
2.) Pharma is private and for profit.
3.) Clinics and hospitals are private and for profit.
4.) Insurance is private and for profit.
5.) Government is for sale.
US doctors have to pay very high insurance premiums.
I am a doctor in Germany. I didn´t have to pay for my medical training. Universities are free in Germany. So after graduation I didn't have any debts.
Sure the income is lower than in the US. But beeing doctor in Germany still is one of the best paid jobs here. And I don't have to pay back my education (how much does it cost to be a doctor in the US?) .And I don't need to save for my kids´college education. I'm sure this is one additional factor for less expensive health care!
I'm happy everybody has an insurance. All my patients can afford the necessary treatment, wether it be simple drugs or it be expensive chemotherapy.
It varies a lot, but the average tuition cost for an undergraduate degree plus a medical degree from a public university in the US is around $245,000.
I am a doctor in South Korea. We have a even "better" system, in which medical students pay for their own training. They get a loan from bank for their own clinic. Then, boom! The government comes in and lower the prices. I visit other doctors for my own minor ailments and are amazed at both how low the prices are and how high the service qualities are. And, yes. "bee"ing doctor in South Korea still is one of the best paid jobs here. The only problem is that we doctors should really work like bees.
G. F. Thats true but think how much you have to pay taxes.
helinakeijo The taxes are high for sure, but I would rather give money out of my salary troughout the years and know that in case of a medical emergency I won't have to choose death over hospital bills.
German university for medical school. Then america for work
I lived in the US for a year and everytime I started to feel bad I was literally scared because I didn't want to go to the doctor because it's so expensive. I went three times total and I was recieving medical bills for MONTHS. In Spain you don't have to pay anything for doctor visits and just a few cents or euros for medication, and even if you have private insurance, it's way less expensive than what in America would be a bad insurance.
Helena de la Peña Haha same here! Saudi has free healthcare care and visits to the doctors are free and sometimes so are the medicines. And “if” we have to buy from the hospital pharmacy it’ll be around 20 saudi riyals max (which is around $5).
Heres how it works: you pay for what you need. When others don't, you have to pay for it, also. Welcome to America. Land of the cheap and needy.
Helena de la Peña thst is awful, i don't want to live in the us anymore. 🙁
The cost is high cause uninsured but not poor enough for Medicaid (federal and state funded) must pay over priced services to keep hospitals open and to feed their pockets whether its private or public hospitals run by colleges. We have to pay for over priced meds cause we subsidize the world for that medication. Drug companies can only get certain prices from the same drug in those countries and sometimes give them away. Who pays? We the US consumer do. I agree we need a new system but it’s not just one solution. We must overhaul the entire system. Insurance, ligation law, drug laws, hospitals, and doctors. One thing this type of system does is provide one of the best healthcare in the world. If it didn’t than why do people from all over the world come to the US for surgeries and care? Our doctors are amongst best cause there is a financial incentive to be the best. People who want to be doctors for several reasons and a main reason is financial. Physicians make a lot of money in the US. When you have to go to school for 8-10 years and have internships for 1-3 yrs than 2-5 more years of residency, you want to be compensated for all that hard and costly work. Can’t get that in some of these free (not really free cause you pay by high taxes) cause they set the amount physicians can make.
I live in the US and I love my country but health care here sucks. Like a few yrs ago I had a simple cold, not the flu or anything. I did have a temp about 101.3 I think. Any way I had to go to the hospital, I waited for about 30 minutes to be seen and there was only three people in the waiting room including me. I get in the back and get seen by the doc, they hook me up to a saline drip for my fever and then send me out the door afterwards. I felt better the next day and was happy, but then the bill came. I do not have insurance it is just to expensive plus Obama care was not going to well in my town, and some places did not accept it at all. My bill in total was about $3,000. Waiting room cost, saline cost, nurse that saw me, the bed I was in, ect... This needs to stop. Yes doctors work their butts off to get where they are but they don't need to charge me an arm and a leg if all they are going to do is give me something for a fever. American health care is a joke, the only care being provided is the "company" lining its pockets.
douglas carpenter Why do you say he's an idiot? You think it's his fault he got sick and had to pay $3000? Our health care system is indeed flawed. It only works for people who get health insurance through their employer. If you don't have this, you have to pay the phoney inflated prices.
THEMenelouss Well, comparing U.S to something like Poland (no offense) with really shitty infrastruckture, just to "show" that public healthcare doesn't work. It's just like comparing Russia to U.S just to "show" that privatizing doesn't work.
Think of it like these large private insurers bartering and gambling that they can take so much money and pay for X number of expensive things to these hospitals etc.
Hospitals raise prices to meet the insurance and you get the system you see. Its ridiculous.
But the corporations basically own the US now, just look at Net nuetrality and how thats going.
THEMenelouss - Why are you comparing the US healthcare system to Poland ? Why not to other countries like Canada ? Japan ? Norway ? LOL Even if you pay a high percentage of tax in Poland, you would still be paying MORE in the US for the same level of healthcare. It's easy to dismiss healthcare when you don't need it but when the bill comes you're screwed & u realize just how greedy & corrupt the medical industry is.
3000 bucks is not charged by the doc, that amount goes to the hospital or ER. Its all the non medical adminitrators that jack up the cost.
In germany you never pay anything for the Hospital..... imagine to pay 1000 of euros for this nonsense is ridiciolous... i never step a food in this weird country usa...
For that reason many Americans travel to Mexico for medical treatment
@@josem588 sounds even worse
@@maze95 in mexico medical treatment is more affordable than in usa