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Yeah - Europe is basically hell if you have health problems and in the US you get great, affordable and immediate treatment... Having lived and had health issu

• WalterBright 3y ago
  The US system is well over 50% run by the government. Obamacare drove my insurance provider out of the state, and I'm stuck with the only one left. Thanks, Obama! Before 1960 or so, the US health care business was free market and reasonably inexpensive. All government attempts to reduce health care costs cost cost increases.
• nickpp 3y ago
  I live in Europe. Just not in the nice, posh Western side that benefitted from all those cheap but well trained doctors and nurses who emigrated after their country got accepted in the EU. Here in the East we thank God for private health care since the socialized state-run one IS basically hell as it kills people routinely.
  • WalterBright 3y ago
    There was a thread about Chernobyl a while back on reddit, and many survivors were commented on it (a fascinating thread). One remarked that while root canals were free, you had to pay for the anesthetic. One also had to pay bribes to the hospital staff to get things done.
    • nickpp 3y ago
      > had to pay bribes to the hospital staff to get things done This is still common. Patients are routinely ignored (and if elderly often abused) unless throwing bribes around. Countless cases of deceased friends and relatives in the media. Absolutely no one in the Eastern block would dream to recommend state-run healthcare. It’s a deeply corrupted mafia organization.