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I just find it fascinating that a country like Germany with a very well developed health-care infrastructure and a comparatively well protected (vaccinated) pop
by BillyTheKing 5y ago
I just find it fascinating that a country like Germany with a very well developed health-care infrastructure and a comparatively well protected (vaccinated) population is seemingly facing larger pressure on its health-care system than the US.
- bsjks 5y agoOr you’ve been fed false data by certain groups that had an interest in making you believe healthcare in the US is much worse than it is.
- seanmcdirmid 5y agoUSA healthcare is great! You just need money to access it, and it’s not a very good value, since we spend almost twice as much of our GDP on it than Germany. Americans also on average don’t benefit from it as much, but that is just due to many not having then money to access it very well.
- smn1234 5y agopopulation density of Germany is comparable to that of the state of Maryland (from 2013 data). Can't really compare a single EU country to the entirety of the US
- hakre 5y agoIt's a multiple decade long process to bleed and drain out health-care in Germany. No one working there finds this fascinating.
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- raxxorrax 5y agoThe truth is we basically always had triages like this in every stronger flu season. Source: Ask people that went through emergency department in the last 10 years, you can randomly pick people. Covid is a serious disease and it does increase load. That will cause problems because the system was finely tuned to always be near to 100% workload in normal operation. That ICU beds were reduced with financial incentives! by the state no less just last summer is a complete joke.