I an European and I have worked and lived in 4 different EU member states, some rich, some more poor. I know almost nobody who gets private insurance. Currentl

I an European and I have worked and lived in 4 different EU member states, some rich, some more poor. I know almost nobody who gets private insurance. Currently I am in Germany, and I had a serious health issue. The sort of thing that makes you go bankrupt in the US. I had surgery and months of treatment for free. I stayed on my own private room in the hospital, and it looked like a hotel room, with a private bathroom. I payed zero euros, this was all on public healthcare. They even offered me a few days in a SPA to recover after surgery. They even funded the metro tickets to go from my house to the place where I received the treatment. Some other EU member states do not have the resources for such niceties, but you will absolutely get the treatment you need. I feel sorry for people in the U.S. I read about all sorts of situations that are heartbreaking, and it confuses me that most people there still vote against universal healthcare. This serves nobody except the very rich people exploiting the situation. I listen to North American podcasts and such, and I am still surprised to hear educated people repeating lies about the situation in Europe, as if we were some almost-communist repressive society about to collapse. The most common assertion is that, after all, the US is the only country with "real freedom". To my European ears, this sounds exactly like the sort of propaganda you get from any authoritarian regime. As if "freedom" is some simple one-dimensional things that can be measured like this. I think it would be good if U.S. citizens had a more realistic picture of how the rest of the western world lives.