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I don’t have any specific information on the current situation, and regarding future developments, well my crystal ball is currently in service — but regarding
by ManuelKiessling 4y ago
I don’t have any specific information on the current situation, and regarding future developments, well my crystal ball is currently in service — but regarding the situation up until at least recently, I will go on record any time: I have lived the past 44 years in the context of the German health care system, and it was basically perfect, period.
Compared to the US (hearsay), and the Eastern European systems (first hand knowledge through the wife), I‘ll take the Western European system any day.
- jhoechtl 4y agoCant speak for Germany but the situation in Austria has been more or less the same. Perfect. But I think we are increasingly slipping into a two class medcare system.
- throw_pm23 4y agoThe comment you responded to was not saying that Eastern European systems are better than Western European ones, but that Western European ones are better because they benefit from getting personnel educated in Eastern Europe and elsewhere for free.
- mathverse 4y agoWe are talking about sustainability not quality here. German health care system is barely functioning (and it always was like that. Remember the korean nurses in Western Germany?) living off of other countries labor. And per capita germany is the 2nd behind the US on healthcare expenditure. There's louder and louder voices in other countries to fix this problem by mandating the medical personnel trained in those countries to practice medicine for X number of years. It's simply not sustainable.