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As an European with extensive knowledge about government budgeting and costs, I find the naivety of most people regarding European healthcare systems incredible
by AdrianB1 5y ago
As an European with extensive knowledge about government budgeting and costs, I find the naivety of most people regarding European healthcare systems incredible. There is not enough money in the world to deliver the promise of the European hc systems and there is no serious reporting on the results to make people aware of the gap. Most people believe healthcare is readily available, free and unlimited, none of these being completely true and the overall picture being completely not true.
- anthk 5y agoSpaniard here. If the most powerful country in the world can't manage that at federal level, then the US is broken from its roots.
- AdrianB1 5y agoUSA is first and foremost a federation of relatively free countries, most legislation is at state level and it works in a way like EU with an integrated military. The major difference is they used to have freedom to choose healthcare, it is not forced like in EU (ex: in my country 10% of your income is paid as healthcare tax and you can be treated in state owned hospitals when there is a place available; note there is no obligation for the state to give you any care, but you go to prison if you don't pay up).
- reducesuffering 5y agoWhile I'd love to see some stats supporting the quantity and severity of laws we live under by each level of government, most of our taxes going to federal doesn't seem to support your assertion.
- refurb 5y agoA friend of mine works in a global healthcare company and launches products in multiple countries. Very eye opening at how barebones many universal healthcare systems are.