These kind of videos literally make me appreciate living in the Netherlands. You never compare yourself to other countries on this kind of level yet when you hear it, it makes me smile?
@L M helaas is dat niet overal zo in NL maar dat is mijn persoonlijke ervaring (ik snap wel dat mensen van mening zijn dat het op veel plekken goed gaat)
Ja het is goed om je te realiseren dat we het echt niet slecht hebben over het algemeen. Maar ik denk wel dat in deze video een beetje een te rooskleurig beeld wordt neergezet on Nederland.
As a Dutchman living in Norway, health care is even more impressive here. Everyone is equally insured, having income or not. Baby leave is 9 months shared by the mother and father.
Denmark is even better, from what i heard of a friend of mine who lives in denmark. They don`t pay for healthcare at all, all is funded by the government.
@@love-vy1ry US govt's already collect more taxes paid to private health insurance (fed, state, muni employees; veterans admin; Medicare; Medicaid) than any other OECD country taxes to pay 100% of universal healthcare. Honestly, if US implemented a universal system govt paid your taxes would drop.
When I visited the USA I was shocked how expensive the vegetables were. It was possible to cook in the apartment, but the rest of the time we went out to restaurants. I can imagine why cheap fast food is a problem when you can't pay for healthy food. It's so important like you said.
@@iroh9816 Usually my total costs for weekly groceries would be between $15-$30 higher compared to when I lived in Netherlands, Germany or the UK. Big percentages of food in the US are imported.
@@nntflow7058 There was a documentary once on VPRO, that almost all countries in Europe and North-America exports/imports food, so they make more profit and keep it cheap (not for us consumers). Even the food that's imported to certain countries is actually produced by farmers in the same country, but they export it and import basically the same from another country.
When my parents visited the North-West in the USA for a month (from Minneapolis to San Fransisco), they were shocked at the absence of vegetables during dinner at restaurants. If restaurants had vegetables, it was sometimes fried too. Just so many things fried. Not healthy.
I'm Dutch born and I've been walking around here for quite some time now. But just now I really realize how big, (not to say huge) my little county actually is! I'm really proud of that...Chapeau!!!
I also like the channel Jovie’s home, it’s an American woman living in the Netherlands and she makes fun videos about all things Dutch. She also did a great series where she visited every province here. So there’s a lot of footage of the rest of the country, not just Amsterdam and Rotterdam 😉
Yeah, her channel is great!I loved it when she went to visit a coffeeshop and let the owner explain everything. She also went right past my house in Alkmaar, quite strange to see your own home on a UA-cam-video. =D
A US doctor summed it up pretty accurately when he said: "The US healthcare system is working exactly as intended. it just never was intended to benefit the patient."
@@DolleHengst I think they'll have to otherwise they'll violate their hypocritic, sorry hippocratic oath. He wouldn't get the best treatment available though or in fact anything more than the absolute minimum.
@@jeroendebruijn704 Making money of course. The doctors will do their best to help the patient but in the end, the system is about bringing in the cash.
Making a salad? In our supermarkets there is a complete wall with ready to eat green salad, mixed salad, bitter salad, young leaves salad, etc. etc. Just add what you want in it and some dressing, ready... We also have wok mix, thai mix, indonesian mix, chinese mix, italian mix, mushroom mix, etc. etc. Just fry some meat or fish, add a bag of these veggies and scoop it for five minutes, ready... You do not have to buy a pepper, chili, paksoi or whatever, and cut it, it is there in a small handy bag washed, cut and mixed. Daily fresh.
When, for example, we buy a new washing machine, the stores have a delivery/installation service and they take your old/broken machine with them for free to have it recycled.
Casey is great! She has a lot of interesting topics and really dives in to something. She sometimes even knows more than I do about grammar or history 🙈 Thank for enjoying this! 🎁
Her videos are always really great. I’m Dutch myself, but it’s a interesting to see things from the perspective of someone from another country. It makes me realise just how well things are organised here, even though not every system works, we have not much to worry about here. This lady’s videos are always very well put together, I just enjoy listening to her talk about anything 😅
@@HighlyCombustibleReacts Yes, what he and his team of 80 plus (excl. funders) have accomplished is mind blowing. They are cleaning the Great Pacific Ocean Patch and (3) rivers in Indonesia, Malaysia and Dominican Republic. Vietnam is next for an inceptor. You should look up their recent YT vid on Jamaica to see how bad situations are. Thank you for responding to this remark, means a lot to me! Much ❤️🌷🌷🌷🇳🇱
You're absolutely right: Casey does deserve the appreciation. She is well informed and on point pretty much all the time. She is clearly intrigued by Dutch society, but also willing to study the how and the why of all kinds of aspects of it. Not surprisingly, I agree with most of the points she is making in this video. However I do not fully agree that we are really doing all the necessary things to meet the Paris agreement. It's actually my main critique of the active government. I hope our next government will do a lot better! Seeing my home country and culture through her eyes is a wonderful experience. There are so many things obvious to us, that we sometimes forget that it's really not that obvious on the world stage. That is also part of me loving to see your reactions. So thank you ..... again.
I completely agree with you that our government doesn't do enough to prevent climate change. We are ranked as one of the worst countries on this topic. But it is importnat to note that there has been a lot of progress made (and I know I commented this 1 year after you your comment). Such as the amount of renewable energy which has been increased by 12% in only 1 year, which is actually a lot. And our future plans are way harder than most of the goals from other countries. For example we want to have a decrease of 95% of carbon dioxide emission in 2050 compared to 1990, while most countries go for a decrease of (only) 59% in 2050 compared to 1990.
I just recently found you. Dunno if it is on purpose but i love the orange shirt when making these Dutch clips. Orange is our color as you probably know :)
We do have to relate. It's easier for a country with 17m people to set things up than for a country with 362m people. But the things we can do, we actually do. I still feel very priviliged to be Dutch. If its for sports, music, or as a country as a whole. We are small, but we have a big impact in the world. It makes me proud.
@@gerarduspoppel2831 ja al denk ik zelf dat Amerika ook veel te verdeeld is om dit soort dingen goed aan te kunnen pakken. Maar de grootte maakt het ook niet makkelijk.
Keep in mind: The Netherlands is not the 2nd greatest exporter of *food*, but of agricultural products. This includes tulip bulbs etc (which we hadn't eaten since The Hungerwinter). Also, we are only ranked second when export is expressed in a currency (usually dollars) in stead of weight/volume/etc. We sell our goods high: cucumbers, tomatoes, and capsicums are simply more expensive than rice, wheat, corn, etc. Still, I think we do quite good. :)
I am Dutch, lived in The Netherlands untill I was 36 and moved to Austria (between Germany and Italy) 10 years ago. Also had my son here. The health insurance system and "kraamzorg" are even better here. I pay way less insurance and much more is covered than in the Netherlands. I had 12 weeks maternity leave (6 weeks before and 6 weeks after birth) and after that you can have Karenz. it is a payed leave with the guarantee you can have your job back for a period of 12 to 36 months. The duration you choose determines how much money you will get each month for that period. This goes for 1 parent, so you can choose which of the parents will stay at home. You can also for example take 1 year as the mom and 1 year as the dad (or whatever the family structure is). Home births are not very common here. It probably has most to do with infrastructure here in the mountains. The risks can be high if you live in the mountains and can't get to a hospital fast. I had to have a c-section unfortunately, but I was able to stay in the Hospital (for 0 euro) for 7 days and did not need help at home. You can choose to have that too after birth here in Austria at zero cost.
Reading this, I think the only thing 'even better' that the guarantee of having your job back for a period of 12-36 months which seems nice! But for the weeks of maternity leave, it is 6 weeks before and at least 10 weeks after birth in the Netherlands. However, it does seem that having that job guarantee is a genuinely good safety net since you hear alot about people suddenly getting fired after giving birth..
@@wouter913 Almost everyone here takes the Karenz for at least a year after those 6 weeks. Also I pay way less for my health insurance and pretty much everything is included even most things at the dentist. And no "Eigen bijdrage" except a small fee if you get prescribed medication.
I have a son who's severely disabled from birth. I have always been grateful I was living here, in the Netherlands. My son has always had excellent care, and always for free. And he still receives this. I have a few times seen his bills, the amount of money that's spent on him is amazing, I would never have been able to pay those costs myself. In the US he wouldn't be alive for a long time already. Probably would have made it 2 years or so, then we would have been bankrupt and as a result...
Here you can find fresh fruit in every supermarket. Small or big. Also we have separate greengrocers that of course sell all kinds of fruit and veggies. Here Lidl and Aldi sell very good fresh veggies and fruits too. So no problems getting it. We have the same machines for empty bottles btw.
This was very interesting. My sister in law (we are Dutch) had her first child, and when the "Kraamzorg" employee arrived at the house the new mom was already making coffee for the family. but she did appreciate the help for the next few days.
Highest exporters but not highest producers. Highly was right, most of our export is actually throughput. For example we are one of the highest exporters for bananas, but we obviously don't grow bananas here.
@@RosesAndIvy Not entirely true. The estimated agricultural export in 2020 had a value of 95,6 billion euro of which 68,3 miljard euro export that was produced in the Netherlands. 27,3 miljard euro was re-export, foreign products mostly arrived in port Rotterdam, that are than exported again, sometimes after adaption, but they officiallly count as Dutch export. So leaving that away the Netherland still are a huge exporteur of agricultural goods. Besides that, the Netherlands exported also for 9,8 miljard euro related goods like agricultural machines, greenhouse materials, fertilezers and corp protection means. BTW the import was growing harder than the export (67,1 billion in 2020).
Dutch women give birth at home a lot. Usually you only end up at the hospital if something's wrong. Although birthing clinics are on the rise. I think one of the reasons for the home births is simply because we can. The Netherlands is so small, the hospital is almost always close by. In a lot of other countries home birthing is just not an option because of the distance.
Bullshit normalerwijze woord er gewoon bevallen in een ziekenhuis.. tuurlijk zijn er genoeg mensen die thuis bevallen maar het is niet zo dat als er wat is je dan pas bevalt in een ziekenhuis 80% bevalt in een ziekenhuis
18:23 That's exactly it what she's implaying. You pay for the content + an extra charge for the bottle (or can now) that you can return (in tact WITH the cap on) and get you extra charge back OR use for the new stuff.
A compulsory income -dependent contribution, nowadays run by private companies with government supervision. It used to be fully state-run but was privatised in 2006. An american friend of ours with liver cancer gets shots at $6000, on holiday here he got the SAME shot(Swiss made) for 700 Euros. Same dose, same brand!
and if he'd lived here and was part of our health insurance system he'd have to pay a maximum of 250 euros per year. in order to keep whimsical doctor visits down (people that go see the doctor if they bumped their toe) we have to pay an own contribution which is capped at about 250 euros per year. if you take the monthly payments in account (about 125 euro per month) he'd pay about 1750 euros per year.
I am dutch but when i was a newly father i only got one day pertunaty leave. (10 years ago) theve changet it to 5 days and its possible to get 6 weeks but you only earn 70% of your salery in those 6 weeks.
Her channel is great. She's living in The Hague nowadays and is very approachable. Paul and friends should certainly watch more on her channel and maybe talk to her and find out how she doing.
She is about the best in "translating" our culture. She really embraces it. Maybe because she's Australian, i feel like Australian people are a cross breed of the netherlands and the UK, I think this is just a remnant of the past.
@@BierdopjeNL think you overrate the Dutch presence in the history of Australia. Just a couple of survivers from the Batavia set foot on the north side of Australia.
As a Dutch, I did not know our system is that good against the rest of the world. This opens my eyes, THX, for this upload. And yes! we are second behind the USA exporting food around the world. This is because we are Silicon Valley in growing food because of an outstanding technology we created to harvest sometimes 4 times a year on the same ground. being the best in IT will not feed you at all, WE DO!
"Statiegeld"used to be limited to glass bottles (soda and beer) and plasstic bottles of 1 liter and larger. recently the small plastic bottles also have statiegeld on them. //edit 2024 now cans have statiegeld too.
Our agriculture sector is extremely efficient, but what cant be neglected in that conversation is that most of our land area is used for very high intensity farming to make that possible. And then there's the greenhouses, which can produce up to 10x more produce on the same land area as conventional farming. Due to local production of very varied produce in the greenhouses, we can get strawberries, pumpkins, cucumbers, and all other kinds of products for very cheap. In the summertime theyre practically giving it away. Flowers as well, you can pick up a nice bouquet for a few euro that would cost dozens anywhere else. Mostly whatever is left over from the auctions at FloraHolland in Aalsmeer. Not the finest quality, but fresh and affordable.
It is true that the Netherlands is de second largest exporter of agricultural products. Mind you, it is based on value, not only volume. The Netherlands is big in trading high yield seed, so a very low volume, high value product. Around Wageningen we have the so-called Food Valley - like Silicone Valley - where very high-tech agricultural and food manufacturing methods are developed. The Agricultural university - MIT for farmers - is world renown and many countries send their best and brightest there to improve the local agriculture.
We are the second highest exporters but not producers. Highly was right, most of our export is actually throughput. For example we are one of the highest exporters for bananas, but we obviously don't grow bananas here.
Answer. No it is not a tax. It is still operated by privatized companies, but with strict rules and agreements. Then the state indeed offers help if you cant pay it. The monthly fee is roughly 100 euros per month for the base necessity coverage. (This base already covers most anything critical you will ever need). Additional insurance is mostly for healthcare like dentist and alternative medicin, chyro, fysio etc
Im going to try and briefly explain the healthcare system. People from 18 years old and older are obligated to get health insurance. The price starts at roughly 120 euros a month (with an own risk of 360 euros). To get the insurance, the government gives u a subsidiary of roughly 100 euros a month. Meaning: you just pay 20 bucks monthly. With this insurance, you can basically do and get anything. Dentist appointments, medicine, doctor checkups and operations, etcetera.
Little late, but something else on recycling. We have separate garbage points for all kinds of garbage: batteries, chemicals, oils and fats for deep-frying, glass bottles without "statiegeld", old clothes, re-usable old clothes. Paper is collected separately, greens too and plastic&cans. Where I live, 10 garbage bags cost 10,9 € to stimulate everyone to recycle as much as possible. Also, the city comes to collect the bigger stuff (like an old couch) for free once a year or you can go to the "milieustraat" ( = environment street) to deliver it yourself. I think it's great.
This is funny for me to see us a Portugese woman living in he Netherlands. All these things are so normal to me. Home birth, aftercare at home by a specialist caretaker (they also help doing dishes, washing clothes, interact with brothers and sisters and also takes care for them. She will clean, and do the medical controls for mother and child. She leaves the day with a nice home made meal. And....they stuff you with your fruits :D But seriously. Having a child for the first time, feels like you climbed the Himalaya, but also like you were run over by a bus. Your weaker than normal, I had more blood loss, so yeah, that takes time. Having her or him in your house and take care of you, your newborn, but also the household, cleaning, preparing meals for the family is awesome. Many fathers take their paternity leave after this nurse is gone. Healthcare. I was an ICU and OR nurse for a long time in the Netherlands. The standard is pretty high, they are progressive and try new techniques. But it is like she said a well function system. You are ill, sent to hospital and you will be studied for diagnosis and than a team of doctors, PA, specialized nurses work out a plan with you. You have many people to rely on and it works very good. These doctors and nurses have informative hours about patients that need more care or a different approaches. It is quick, very functional when we work with teams. Dietsts, Physiotherapy. All can be inviolved in a personal plan. These way patients cure faster, what is great for the patient, but also cost effective. Why can't every state in the USA do the same? Everybody pays, if you can't it will be payed (strict rules) and everybody has acces to the same high level of healthcare. rich or poor. Just curious ? :)
These videos really make me feel like we're not doing things that badly :) All I hear about personally, is like the housing crisis, how expensive gas is, the financial crisis in 2008, COVID, this one mistake at the Belastingdienst resulting in tens of thousands of euros worth of debt for thousands of families (this has a name, but I can't think of it atm-)... you know, all the negative things, since all these positive things, I've grown so accustomed to, that I hardly even recognize them as special anymore. I shouldn't take my country for granted like that. I appreciate you, Netherlands, in spite of all your flaws!
Our 'kraamverzorgster' was ready for me to come home, ask me how my workday was, and actually took me aside to show me things I could do better, while listening to my worries. They take their job very seriously, and they're highly skilled.
The freezing doesn't do a lot to nutritional value, but it does change the structure of the fruit, which means the texture changes, and more often than not it hurts the mouthfeel and the taste by proxy.
Yeah I have 2 sons and for that we got 2 times kraamzorg. It was just fantastic. As a father you learn so much about caring for your little boy in just a week. You literally get a jumpstart with your first born The paternity leave nowadays is so much better then when I got it back in 2009 and 2011. I only had 5 days back then. Oh and about the windmills….we dont need them….Floor does all the windmilling for us 😎🤟🏼🤟🏼
To explain it briefly, I pay 750 in rent, I get 310 euros back from the state, I pay 147 in care, I get 138 back from the state, and yes this is in the Netherlands, my daughter is in daycare when I work that is also partly reimbursed,
The technique of growing crops in greenhouses is amazing over here. Take a look at a globe. Then see how small the Netherlands are. Then imagine that the most greenhouses are located near The Hague and Rotterdam. In fact a small part of the Netherlands. So a not visible tiny spot on the globe. And that tiny spot is producing a staggering amound of food. There products are sold worldwide. Their secret: agricultural techniques. The growing plants are stacked in multiple layers above each other, like highrises, in a system where the crops not even use traditional soil anymore. With special lighting in growth accelarating colors and recycling water systems. It is very high tech, but without the chemicals. I saw how in modern greenhouses is dealt with pest control. They don't use pesticides. Instead a camera system monitors for flying bugs. When the system spots so much as a fly a drone is launched that flies the bug out of the air. A superclean dream machine!!
The dutch agriculture structure is almost hightec :) The worked with the university of Wageningen to get better products and reduce quite a few things. To give you an example, they can grow a kilo (about 2.1 pounds) of tomatoes with only 20% of the water that other greenhouses needed for the same amount. The reasons why we invest so much in this kind of technology is that we had a hungerwinter in 1944 (WWII) so we made plans to not ever happend something like that again.
I'm a Dutchie living in the USA. I can tell you this, the American healthcare system is great IF you have money. I've apparently had an auto-immune disease that started when I was in early adulthood, but I didn't know that. I had strange symptoms which never were explained... Not in the NL, UK, Canada. I had iritis in Canada, got meds etc. I also got hit by it when we moved to the US so I had to find an opthalmologist on arrival without having health care yet so I had to bring a big bag of cash. He asked me questions since this was like the 6th time I was hit with it in the last 1.5y and that seemed suspicious to him. While the other docs focused on treating the symptoms he focused on trying to find the underlying symptoms. He sent me for a bunch of very expensive tests and found something, referred me to a rheumatologist who prescribed meds to me and I've been almost symptom free for 5 years now while before I was at a point where I couldn't even walk to the end of the street without being in agonizing pain and previous doctors prescribed pain meds. That being said, how casually they prescribe antibiotics and heavy pain meds here is ridiculous, I've had to ask several times for a "downgrade".
You so should check out the Elfstedentocht. Originally an ice skating tour through the 11 "cities" of the province of Friesland. Nowadays we got almost every sport doing the route in some way.
Having a tiny densely populated country does make good healthcare a lot more affordable. Wherever you are, a hospital is probably 5-10 minutes drive away. That means we dont need as many ambulances. Even when people are having acute health problems, they can probably get to a hospital quickly. I remember when I was a college student, one evening I had acute chest pains, so I called my dad, he came to pick me up and drove me to the hospital in our home town in a pretty short amount of time. Turned out to be pericarditis. In a more remote area I wouldve had to call the emergency number to get a trauma helicopter. Looking back I should probably have called an ambulance, but I didnt even consider it necessary, when I didnt know that I had a lethal condition.
I have been brought home by ambulances for free. Dutch healthcare is one of the best :P. As she said I as a student get money each month (97 euros right now) to pay for health insurance. The Lowest I could get it for would be about 85 euros, but this amount (97 eur) allows for dental insurance as well. Allowing for about 300 eur a year on dental work (for free as its about 97 eur). This 300 eur covers regular expenses that would be multiple thousands of usd in America. I have once had multiple hours of work needed on mine and it was ALL covered, this procedure would've cost about 10k without insurance in new york... We dutch don't like socialism, but on healthcare it works.
You are co-insured with your parents for medical expenses until you turn 18. From the 1st of the month, after your 18th birthday, you are in charge of your health insurance. You can therefore apply for your own health insurance.
When you give birth in a hospital, that's what your insurance is for. You basically only have to pay an "own risk" sum of around €500, depending on your insurance package. But that sum is a yearly sum for all your healthcare in total. You have the right to change insurance companies every year, so if you are planning on having a child you can be prepared by chosing the insurance that includes baby care.
I became a dad 1,5 years ago. And i had parental leave of 7,5 months. We moved from the Netherlands (Arnhem) to just cross the border of germany(Kleve) both cities are roughly 20 kilometers from Nijmegen And i daily crosses the border and drive to the netherlands for my work as a traffic controller. The dutch goverment paid me for tbe first 5 weeks 70% of my income. And the rest of my time was non paid. But in Germany is still is. So germany paid my 70% of my income for 7 months.
Kraamzorg: getting a baby in a hospital costs the same as getting one at home: 0 Euro (all costs covered by the insurance). The after-birth-nurse will visit you for several hrs per day in the first week you are at home with a baby (so after u get home from hospital or after u got the baby at home). It can be extended if there are medical reasons (a doctor decides). It is 'free' (a small fee maybe).
About the giving birth at home, its not a money thing its a comfort thing. Obviously doing something like that at home is a much more pleasant experience than in some random hospital room. There will also always be a specially trained 'birthing nurse' there to guide you through the whole thing. You will meet and see this person regularly in the weeks leading up to your expected birth date, and they'll be there the entire time for guidance but also in case something happens. A lot of close bonds are also formed this way. My mom gave birth to me and my siblings at home and our birthing nurse (she had the same one every time) Annemieke became a really close friend of the family. My sister has already decided that whatever happens Annemieke will also be there when she eventually gets kids. Of course not everybody does this at home. Sometimes your doctor will strongly advise you to do it at the hospital because they have spotted some things that might bring extra risks during birth. C-sections you obviously cannot do at home lol, and there are also people who just want to do it at a hospital or a clinic because they feel that to be the safer option, which is completely understandable too
I'd strongly insist on a hospital birth because safety is paramount, but I'm cheerfully paranoid. If someone who isn't in my monkeysphere wants a home birth I don't see it as a worry, threat or problem.
Health insurance in the Netherlands for youth is also till you are 18 years old. It was a good system, it is being hollowed out now though. To many people that aren't working while they are able
Having a baby at home has nothing to do with insurance. It's a choice you make. In The Netherlands it's pretty common having a baby at home. It's doesn't matter for the insurance though. If you want to go to the hospital and have your baby there, it's insured, do you want to stay at home, insurance will cover that too. And it's in the basic insurance, so available for everybody..
Check out Jovie's Home as well, she is an expat from the U.S. (born in Serbia, then moved as a kid to Canada and then to the U.S.). She made vlogs of some of our provinces, really nicely done, even went to the Eurovision Song contest, got invited to join. She is getting her Dutch citizenship pretty soon and tells about that journey as well. Fun to watch, nice sense of humor and informative as well.
The health insurance here is also till 18 shared with your parents, after that you'll have to get your own. Roughly explained: The insurance is not something the government controls, there are multiple insurance companies, but you are legally obliged to have health insurance. The others (Car, house, whatever insurance) you can choose if you want them or not. The insurance is like 100-150 euros a month, and the company your insurance belongs to pays (almost) all your medical bills (some things are not included, depends on which insurance you have). Most people pay more to insurance then they do for medical bills in their life, so the insurance company profits and you don't have to pay 10.000 euros at once for a full body scan if you get in an accident. The government provides people without income or a handicap (a handicap which prevents them from being able to work) with a budget. The budget depends on your situation. When you're 18, live with your parents, are in school and don't have an income, you'll get like 80 Euros a month from DUO (educational system) and 100 euros (could be less or more, depending on what you spent) from the tax system (Note: once you earn 2800 a month, you have to pay taxes instead of getting money back) . when you're 18, live on your own, have no income and are in school, it could be 600 Euros from DUO a month. The handicap budget is something I don't have the experience for to explain properly.
for a child in the netherlands with healthcare with their parents is also until the child is 18 but it is completely free, no extra charges and if something happens you also don't have to pay "own risk" just register your kid under your own healthcare provider (and even that is free of charge)
Too bad she missed our massive technological innovation industry. We are very much high tech and beat Silicon Valley easily every year when it comes to high tech innovations, industries and products. It’s all centered more in the south of the Netherlands so even a lot Dutchies don’t even realize this. The ones with stocks in these companies do! 🤪 They got very rich over the last 15 years..
Yup. I'm proud and feel fortunate that I can say I live in Eindhoven (and can contribute) which is recently rebranded to 'Brainport Eindhoven' -> the tech region of The Netherlands
Innvoationin NL goes way beyond Tech and that is the most amazing thing. Silicon Valley is IT obsessed - NL develops innovation for agriculture, manufacturing, civil infrastructure, shipping, and so on. The Innovation story in NL is far richer and more diverse than that of Silicon Valley but the Dutch don´t publicly boast about it - just privately among themselves. :)
About the recycling .... I just have to add some things. We do recycle so we'll, that we need garbage from other countries to keep our burning installations going. In Nijmegen, we had a test period, for collecting diapers and incontinence material apart from the rest of the trash. They can make bumpers for cars from the plastic inside the diapers and the feces/urine are used for energy. And more and more cities in the Netherlands do this. But one negative aspect is, that we do collect plastic also apart, but it gets shipped to other countries where it still can get into nature and it still isn't very good for the environment. At least that's what I heard 😢
Statiegeld you can see it as a tiny bail. When you buy a bottle in an store here in the Netherlands you pay for the bottle and you pay(bail) 0.25ct for it next to the bottle price when bottle is empty you bring it back you get your 0,25ct back.
I just watched this video again apparently and want to add something: many (not all) women don't go to a hospital to give birth. Mostly only when there's a chance there's something wrong (eg. when the child is two weeks late, or early). About having time to cook: In the USA (as I believe) many have multiple jobs, just to pay the bills and/or to pay for their debts. Here in Europe the work/life balance is much healthier. When your job is done, you've got spare time to do what ever you like.
Germany has no kraamzorg. In Germany you get assistance in the hospital since all births are done there. My GF is German and we live in the Netherlands. She was very happy with de kraamzorg we had 😉
The second biggest exporter NOT producer that are 2 different things ! The Netherlands buy and sell also called trade , that is were we are very good in, learned through the centuries .
How healthcare works in the Netherlands is what Americans would call a single payer system. Every adult has to have mandatory health insurance, currently about 140-150 euro per month and people with low incomes get it heavily subsidized, even completely free if you make minimum wage. Health insurance companies can be privately owned or collectively, as cooperations, but they all have to provide a legal minimum of coverage, so the price differences are generally very small. There are also wage limits for doctors and board members of hospitals. No one is allowed to make more than the prime minister. There are loopholes, many surgeons are organized in their own cooperations which are then subcontracted by hospitals and are thus exempt from the limits. Overall the system works pretty well but in recent years there has been a lot of strain, coverage is decreasing, prices are going up, and local personal physicians are getting overwhelmed.
Well there’s al lot More than Amsterdam indeed. I instagrammed you twice a link, of something we do in the most southern province . Hope you will review that one. I’ll still throw in a Dutch Bike Bell. 😂
14:47 the wind turbines are subsidised, They aren't cost efficient, they need like car engines, every run for a ceratian amout of time an oil refill... 90 gallons per windturbine, that oil can't be reused... they are made of materials that can't be recycled.... so.. what is the good thing about these things actually?
statiegeld(deposit) on a bottle plastic most of the time. or with a kratjebier case of beer mostly glass. you can deposit them at a supermarket and get some cash for in return.
Giving birth at home or in a hospital cost the same: zero. Kraamzorg cost you about € 50 per day, the nurse comes 5 days for 8 hours. We are the second biggest exporter because we also import a lot. We are big at reselling oranges etc.
Listen to Beste Zangers 2021 with Anneke van Giersbergen sing "Sobreviviré". She translated it into english and also listen on this show to Karsu sing "Hije de la luna". You will like both songs..
In 2020 (even during the Covid period) the Netherlands exported 95.6 billion euros worth of agricultural products. About 75% of cultivated agricultural products are destined for export. The Netherlands therefore grows three times more food than is necessary.
These kind of videos literally make me appreciate living in the Netherlands. You never compare yourself to other countries on this kind of level yet when you hear it, it makes me smile?
@L M helaas is dat niet overal zo in NL maar dat is mijn persoonlijke ervaring (ik snap wel dat mensen van mening zijn dat het op veel plekken goed gaat)
Ja het is goed om je te realiseren dat we het echt niet slecht hebben over het algemeen. Maar ik denk wel dat in deze video een beetje een te rooskleurig beeld wordt neergezet on Nederland.
@jerquake943 no, I said that the Netherland is a pretty good country to live in, but it’s not only great and fantastic.
@jerquake943 ja ik ga altijd verder, zelfs als mensen bot zijn 👍😆
As a Dutchman living in Norway, health care is even more impressive here. Everyone is equally insured, having income or not. Baby leave is 9 months shared by the mother and father.
Sounds great! What other advantages does living in Norway give you? And did you experience any major disadvantages?
Denmark is even better, from what i heard of a friend of mine who lives in denmark.
They don`t pay for healthcare at all, all is funded by the government.
@@h1e2n3d4r5i6k7 From taxes you forget to mention.
@@love-vy1ry US govt's already collect more taxes paid to private health insurance (fed, state, muni employees; veterans admin; Medicare; Medicaid) than any other OECD country taxes to pay 100% of universal healthcare. Honestly, if US implemented a universal system govt paid your taxes would drop.
but in fact every norwegian is a milionaire because of the gas/oil
When I visited the USA I was shocked how expensive the vegetables were. It was possible to cook in the apartment, but the rest of the time we went out to restaurants. I can imagine why cheap fast food is a problem when you can't pay for healthy food. It's so important like you said.
how much more expensive was it there?
@@iroh9816 Usually my total costs for weekly groceries would be between $15-$30 higher compared to when I lived in Netherlands, Germany or the UK.
Big percentages of food in the US are imported.
@@nntflow7058 There was a documentary once on VPRO, that almost all countries in Europe and North-America exports/imports food, so they make more profit and keep it cheap (not for us consumers). Even the food that's imported to certain countries is actually produced by farmers in the same country, but they export it and import basically the same from another country.
When my parents visited the North-West in the USA for a month (from Minneapolis to San Fransisco), they were shocked at the absence of vegetables during dinner at restaurants. If restaurants had vegetables, it was sometimes fried too. Just so many things fried. Not healthy.
I'm Dutch born and I've been walking around here for quite some time now. But just now I really realize how big, (not to say huge) my little county actually is! I'm really proud of that...Chapeau!!!
Groot geworden door klein te blijven.
I also like the channel Jovie’s home, it’s an American woman living in the Netherlands and she makes fun videos about all things Dutch. She also did a great series where she visited every province here. So there’s a lot of footage of the rest of the country, not just Amsterdam and Rotterdam 😉
Yes it's a good channel
She is from Australia not the USA....
No Jovie is from Serbia and has lived a long time in the US before coming here. I think you're confusing her with Casey Kilmore who's Australian
@@EricvanDorp007 Wrong she is from the US.
6 lies america told me !
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Yeah, her channel is great!I loved it when she went to visit a coffeeshop and let the owner explain everything. She also went right past my house in Alkmaar, quite strange to see your own home on a UA-cam-video. =D
A US doctor summed it up pretty accurately when he said: "The US healthcare system is working exactly as intended. it just never was intended to benefit the patient."
Yes, how cruel is that, this US doctor knows how rotten the hc-system is in the US!!
Just out of curiosity.
Say a very poor man walks into a US hospital with a broken arm. He has an ID, but no insurance. Will he get medical treatment?
@@DolleHengst I think they'll have to otherwise they'll violate their hypocritic, sorry hippocratic oath. He wouldn't get the best treatment available though or in fact anything more than the absolute minimum.
Healthcare is not to benefit the patient🤣🤣🤣what is it for then
@@jeroendebruijn704 Making money of course. The doctors will do their best to help the patient but in the end, the system is about bringing in the cash.
Making a salad?
In our supermarkets there is a complete wall with ready to eat green salad, mixed salad, bitter salad, young leaves salad, etc. etc.
Just add what you want in it and some dressing, ready...
We also have wok mix, thai mix, indonesian mix, chinese mix, italian mix, mushroom mix, etc. etc. Just fry some meat or fish, add a bag of these veggies and scoop it for five minutes, ready...
You do not have to buy a pepper, chili, paksoi or whatever, and cut it, it is there in a small handy bag washed, cut and mixed.
Daily fresh.
That’s what I said, diner 20 minutes self made salad 10 min. Large section of pre-cut veggies in the supermarket.
When, for example, we buy a new washing machine, the stores have a delivery/installation service and they take your old/broken machine with them for free to have it recycled.
Its not free, theres about 20-30 euro included in the purchase price for the recycling service. Its mandatory.
I agree. More informative than any before. This girl rocks.
Casey is great! She has a lot of interesting topics and really dives in to something.
She sometimes even knows more than I do about grammar or history 🙈
Thank for enjoying this! 🎁
Same here!! 😅
I live in Australia, and what she says is true, they are backward here, it annoys me to no end...
Yupp she is gooooood!!! And also knows a lot about the parts of the country that are not Amsterdam. Here Dutch is impressive also!
Her videos are always really great. I’m Dutch myself, but it’s a interesting to see things from the perspective of someone from another country. It makes me realise just how well things are organised here, even though not every system works, we have not much to worry about here.
This lady’s videos are always very well put together, I just enjoy listening to her talk about anything 😅
I also like that her videos aren’t just opinions, she’s actually looking into topics to make sure she’s as well informed as possible.
Dutch Boyan Slat, The Ocean Cleanup!
Best invention: Interceptors!
Already looking into possibly supporting this young man in some way/shape/or form as we grow. He has done so much already... It's insane!
@@HighlyCombustibleReacts Yes, what he and his team of 80 plus (excl. funders) have accomplished is mind blowing. They are cleaning the Great Pacific Ocean Patch and (3) rivers in Indonesia, Malaysia and Dominican Republic. Vietnam is next for an inceptor.
You should look up their recent YT vid on Jamaica to see how bad situations are.
Thank you for responding to this remark, means a lot to me! Much ❤️🌷🌷🌷🇳🇱
God bless the Netherlands best country ever.
Great video btw keep it up👍
You're absolutely right: Casey does deserve the appreciation. She is well informed and on point pretty much all the time. She is clearly intrigued by Dutch society, but also willing to study the how and the why of all kinds of aspects of it.
Not surprisingly, I agree with most of the points she is making in this video. However I do not fully agree that we are really doing all the necessary things to meet the Paris agreement. It's actually my main critique of the active government. I hope our next government will do a lot better!
Seeing my home country and culture through her eyes is a wonderful experience. There are so many things obvious to us, that we sometimes forget that it's really not that obvious on the world stage.
That is also part of me loving to see your reactions. So thank you ..... again.
I completely agree with you that our government doesn't do enough to prevent climate change. We are ranked as one of the worst countries on this topic. But it is importnat to note that there has been a lot of progress made (and I know I commented this 1 year after you your comment). Such as the amount of renewable energy which has been increased by 12% in only 1 year, which is actually a lot. And our future plans are way harder than most of the goals from other countries. For example we want to have a decrease of 95% of carbon dioxide emission in 2050 compared to 1990, while most countries go for a decrease of (only) 59% in 2050 compared to 1990.
If it ain't Dutch it ain't much!!
I just recently found you. Dunno if it is on purpose but i love the orange shirt when making these Dutch clips. Orange is our color as you probably know :)
In the Netherlands, the courts ruled that the oil company Shell should cut back on emissions for the first time ever. Its a pretty big deal
We do have to relate. It's easier for a country with 17m people to set things up than for a country with 362m people. But the things we can do, we actually do. I still feel very priviliged to be Dutch. If its for sports, music, or as a country as a whole. We are small, but we have a big impact in the world. It makes me proud.
Kijk eens naar Duitsland? Een land met bijna 90 miljoen inwoners. En zei kunnen het ook.
@@gerarduspoppel2831 zijn er nog steeds geen 320 miljoen he
@@rodneyr5970 dat is waar. Maar het laat wel zien dat een groot land het wel kan
@@gerarduspoppel2831 ja al denk ik zelf dat Amerika ook veel te verdeeld is om dit soort dingen goed aan te kunnen pakken. Maar de grootte maakt het ook niet makkelijk.
@@rodneyr5970 .maybe. As far as America is concerned, I have absolutely no idea what is happening there now
Keep in mind: The Netherlands is not the 2nd greatest exporter of *food*, but of agricultural products. This includes tulip bulbs etc (which we hadn't eaten since The Hungerwinter). Also, we are only ranked second when export is expressed in a currency (usually dollars) in stead of weight/volume/etc. We sell our goods high: cucumbers, tomatoes, and capsicums are simply more expensive than rice, wheat, corn, etc.
Still, I think we do quite good. :)
I have my own fruit in my garden. Like plums ,zucchini, tomatos, strawberrys, pears and grapes
@HCX!,i‘m Dutch MYself,but i learn so much about my/our Little Country,& makes Me even feel better & more oroud of our Tiny kingdom!
I am Dutch, lived in The Netherlands untill I was 36 and moved to Austria (between Germany and Italy) 10 years ago.
Also had my son here. The health insurance system and "kraamzorg" are even better here. I pay way less insurance and much more is covered than in the Netherlands. I had 12 weeks maternity leave (6 weeks before and 6 weeks after birth) and after that you can have Karenz. it is a payed leave with the guarantee you can have your job back for a period of 12 to 36 months. The duration you choose determines how much money you will get each month for that period. This goes for 1 parent, so you can choose which of the parents will stay at home. You can also for example take 1 year as the mom and 1 year as the dad (or whatever the family structure is). Home births are not very common here. It probably has most to do with infrastructure here in the mountains. The risks can be high if you live in the mountains and can't get to a hospital fast. I had to have a c-section unfortunately, but I was able to stay in the Hospital (for 0 euro) for 7 days and did not need help at home. You can choose to have that too after birth here in Austria at zero cost.
Reading this, I think the only thing 'even better' that the guarantee of having your job back for a period of 12-36 months which seems nice! But for the weeks of maternity leave, it is 6 weeks before and at least 10 weeks after birth in the Netherlands. However, it does seem that having that job guarantee is a genuinely good safety net since you hear alot about people suddenly getting fired after giving birth..
@@wouter913 Almost everyone here takes the Karenz for at least a year after those 6 weeks.
Also I pay way less for my health insurance and pretty much everything is included even most things at the dentist. And no "Eigen bijdrage" except a small fee if you get prescribed medication.
@@ncoppens And you get less for it. A LOT less.
I have a son who's severely disabled from birth. I have always been grateful I was living here, in the Netherlands. My son has always had excellent care, and always for free. And he still receives this.
I have a few times seen his bills, the amount of money that's spent on him is amazing, I would never have been able to pay those costs myself. In the US he wouldn't be alive for a long time already. Probably would have made it 2 years or so, then we would have been bankrupt and as a result...
Here you can find fresh fruit in every supermarket. Small or big. Also we have separate greengrocers that of course sell all kinds of fruit and veggies. Here Lidl and Aldi sell very good fresh veggies and fruits too. So no problems getting it. We have the same machines for empty bottles btw.
At the moment I have a lot tomato's out of my own garden. That's easy to realize in our spring/summertime😀😇
What a terrific video reaction! I really enjoy you! 🤗
This was very interesting. My sister in law (we are Dutch) had her first child, and when the "Kraamzorg" employee arrived at the house the new mom was already making coffee for the family. but she did appreciate the help for the next few days.
They care for the baby, the mother, and household if there is still time left.
Yes.. we are they highest exporters for fruits and vegetables. Because we have very innovative clean and green agricultural technology
Highest exporters but not highest producers. Highly was right, most of our export is actually throughput. For example we are one of the highest exporters for bananas, but we obviously don't grow bananas here.
Biggest seed company except for Monsanto: Ensa zaden.
@@RosesAndIvy Not entirely true. The estimated agricultural export in 2020 had a value of 95,6 billion euro of which 68,3 miljard euro export that was produced in the Netherlands. 27,3 miljard euro was re-export, foreign products mostly arrived in port Rotterdam, that are than exported again, sometimes after adaption, but they officiallly count as Dutch export. So leaving that away the Netherland still are a huge exporteur of agricultural goods. Besides that, the Netherlands exported also for 9,8 miljard euro related goods like agricultural machines, greenhouse materials, fertilezers and corp protection means.
BTW the import was growing harder than the export (67,1 billion in 2020).
Dutch women give birth at home a lot. Usually you only end up at the hospital if something's wrong. Although birthing clinics are on the rise. I think one of the reasons for the home births is simply because we can. The Netherlands is so small, the hospital is almost always close by. In a lot of other countries home birthing is just not an option because of the distance.
Bullshit normalerwijze woord er gewoon bevallen in een ziekenhuis.. tuurlijk zijn er genoeg mensen die thuis bevallen maar het is niet zo dat als er wat is je dan pas bevalt in een ziekenhuis 80% bevalt in een ziekenhuis
@@n1ck2211 yeah, right! Hahahaha!
more intimate. A lot less medical, which gave me more control and confidence.
18:23 That's exactly it what she's implaying.
You pay for the content + an extra charge for the bottle (or can now) that you can return (in tact WITH the cap on) and get you extra charge back OR use for the new stuff.
A compulsory income -dependent contribution, nowadays run by private companies
with government supervision. It used to be fully state-run but was privatised in 2006.
An american friend of ours with liver cancer gets shots at $6000, on holiday
here he got the SAME shot(Swiss made) for 700 Euros. Same dose, same brand!
and if he'd lived here and was part of our health insurance system he'd have to pay a maximum of 250 euros per year. in order to keep whimsical doctor visits down (people that go see the doctor if they bumped their toe) we have to pay an own contribution which is capped at about 250 euros per year.
if you take the monthly payments in account (about 125 euro per month) he'd pay about 1750 euros per year.
I've seen many videos from Casey and I love her view on our country!
This girl is nailing it.
from the Netherlands thanks for the video
I am dutch but when i was a newly father i only got one day pertunaty leave. (10 years ago) theve changet it to 5 days and its possible to get 6 weeks but you only earn 70% of your salery in those 6 weeks.
I love to watch your video's. Greets from The south province Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands
Great statement HxC about that there is more than Amsterdam and ‘Holland’ … The Netherlands is so much more than that!
no it's not, this dude is lying people. all tourists should just continue to go to Amsterdam ONLY! XD
Her channel is great. She's living in The Hague nowadays and is very approachable. Paul and friends should certainly watch more on her channel and maybe talk to her and find out how she doing.
Love her channel.
Absolutely!
She is about the best in "translating" our culture. She really embraces it. Maybe because she's Australian, i feel like Australian people are a cross breed of the netherlands and the UK, I think this is just a remnant of the past.
@@BierdopjeNL think you overrate the Dutch presence in the history of Australia. Just a couple of survivers from the Batavia set foot on the north side of Australia.
You should jovie's home on yt An American expat who's telling you all you wanna know about the Netherlands and the dutch. You really should paul
I like the word statiesgeld.
Greeting from the Netherlands, Noord Brabant jonguh....
As a Dutch, I did not know our system is that good against the rest of the world. This opens my eyes, THX, for this upload. And yes! we are second behind the USA exporting food around the world. This is because we are Silicon Valley in growing food because of an outstanding technology we created to harvest sometimes 4 times a year on the same ground. being the best in IT will not feed you at all, WE DO!
"Statiegeld"used to be limited to glass bottles (soda and beer) and plasstic bottles of 1 liter and larger.
recently the small plastic bottles also have statiegeld on them.
//edit 2024 now cans have statiegeld too.
Casey is always a great information source for all things dutch!
Our agriculture sector is extremely efficient, but what cant be neglected in that conversation is that most of our land area is used for very high intensity farming to make that possible. And then there's the greenhouses, which can produce up to 10x more produce on the same land area as conventional farming. Due to local production of very varied produce in the greenhouses, we can get strawberries, pumpkins, cucumbers, and all other kinds of products for very cheap. In the summertime theyre practically giving it away.
Flowers as well, you can pick up a nice bouquet for a few euro that would cost dozens anywhere else. Mostly whatever is left over from the auctions at FloraHolland in Aalsmeer. Not the finest quality, but fresh and affordable.
It is true that the Netherlands is de second largest exporter of agricultural products. Mind you, it is based on value, not only volume. The Netherlands is big in trading high yield seed, so a very low volume, high value product.
Around Wageningen we have the so-called Food Valley - like Silicone Valley - where very high-tech agricultural and food manufacturing methods are developed. The Agricultural university - MIT for farmers - is world renown and many countries send their best and brightest there to improve the local agriculture.
We are the second highest exporters but not producers. Highly was right, most of our export is actually throughput. For example we are one of the highest exporters for bananas, but we obviously don't grow bananas here.
@@RosesAndIvy Ze bedoelen produceren en dat klopt granen tomatoes and the local stuff en sinds kort bananen (als experiment)
Answer. No it is not a tax. It is still operated by privatized companies, but with strict rules and agreements. Then the state indeed offers help if you cant pay it. The monthly fee is roughly 100 euros per month for the base necessity coverage. (This base already covers most anything critical you will ever need). Additional insurance is mostly for healthcare like dentist and alternative medicin, chyro, fysio etc
South Australia has a 10c deposit on glass drinks bottles and cartons. No deposit on alcohol containers.
Im going to try and briefly explain the healthcare system.
People from 18 years old and older are obligated to get health insurance. The price starts at roughly 120 euros a month (with an own risk of 360 euros). To get the insurance, the government gives u a subsidiary of roughly 100 euros a month. Meaning: you just pay 20 bucks monthly. With this insurance, you can basically do and get anything. Dentist appointments, medicine, doctor checkups and operations, etcetera.
@yneqe Not in my western european country
1 video featuring 2 people i like to watch
.... Nice
Little late, but something else on recycling. We have separate garbage points for all kinds of garbage: batteries, chemicals, oils and fats for deep-frying, glass bottles without "statiegeld", old clothes, re-usable old clothes. Paper is collected separately, greens too and plastic&cans. Where I live, 10 garbage bags cost 10,9 € to stimulate everyone to recycle as much as possible. Also, the city comes to collect the bigger stuff (like an old couch) for free once a year or you can go to the "milieustraat" ( = environment street) to deliver it yourself. I think it's great.
This is funny for me to see us a Portugese woman living in he Netherlands. All these things are so normal to me. Home birth, aftercare at home by a specialist caretaker (they also help doing dishes, washing clothes, interact with brothers and sisters and also takes care for them. She will clean, and do the medical controls for mother and child. She leaves the day with a nice home made meal. And....they stuff you with your fruits :D But seriously. Having a child for the first time, feels like you climbed the Himalaya, but also like you were run over by a bus. Your weaker than normal, I had more blood loss, so yeah, that takes time. Having her or him in your house and take care of you, your newborn, but also the household, cleaning, preparing meals for the family is awesome. Many fathers take their paternity leave after this nurse is gone.
Healthcare. I was an ICU and OR nurse for a long time in the Netherlands. The standard is pretty high, they are progressive and try new techniques. But it is like she said a well function system. You are ill, sent to hospital and you will be studied for diagnosis and than a team of doctors, PA, specialized nurses work out a plan with you. You have many people to rely on and it works very good. These doctors and nurses have informative hours about patients that need more care or a different approaches. It is quick, very functional when we work with teams. Dietsts, Physiotherapy. All can be inviolved in a personal plan. These way patients cure faster, what is great for the patient, but also cost effective.
Why can't every state in the USA do the same? Everybody pays, if you can't it will be payed (strict rules) and everybody has acces to the same high level of healthcare. rich or poor.
Just curious ? :)
These videos really make me feel like we're not doing things that badly :) All I hear about personally, is like the housing crisis, how expensive gas is, the financial crisis in 2008, COVID, this one mistake at the Belastingdienst resulting in tens of thousands of euros worth of debt for thousands of families (this has a name, but I can't think of it atm-)... you know, all the negative things, since all these positive things, I've grown so accustomed to, that I hardly even recognize them as special anymore. I shouldn't take my country for granted like that. I appreciate you, Netherlands, in spite of all your flaws!
Our 'kraamverzorgster' was ready for me to come home, ask me how my workday was, and actually took me aside to show me things I could do better, while listening to my worries.
They take their job very seriously, and they're highly skilled.
You might add that the Netherlands is also the world's number one exporter of flowers!
The freezing doesn't do a lot to nutritional value, but it does change the structure of the fruit, which means the texture changes, and more often than not it hurts the mouthfeel and the taste by proxy.
Yeah I have 2 sons and for that we got 2 times kraamzorg. It was just fantastic. As a father you learn so much about caring for your little boy in just a week. You literally get a jumpstart with your first born
The paternity leave nowadays is so much better then when I got it back in 2009 and 2011. I only had 5 days back then.
Oh and about the windmills….we dont need them….Floor does all the windmilling for us 😎🤟🏼🤟🏼
To explain it briefly, I pay 750 in rent, I get 310 euros back from the state, I pay 147 in care, I get 138 back from the state, and yes this is in the Netherlands, my daughter is in daycare when I work
that is also partly reimbursed,
The technique of growing crops in greenhouses is amazing over here. Take a look at a globe. Then see how small the Netherlands are. Then imagine that the most greenhouses are located near The Hague and Rotterdam. In fact a small part of the Netherlands. So a not visible tiny spot on the globe. And that tiny spot is producing a staggering amound of food. There products are sold worldwide. Their secret: agricultural techniques. The growing plants are stacked in multiple layers above each other, like highrises, in a system where the crops not even use traditional soil anymore. With special lighting in growth accelarating colors and recycling water systems. It is very high tech, but without the chemicals. I saw how in modern greenhouses is dealt with pest control. They don't use pesticides. Instead a camera system monitors for flying bugs. When the system spots so much as a fly a drone is launched that flies the bug out of the air. A superclean dream machine!!
The dutch agriculture structure is almost hightec :) The worked with the university of Wageningen to get better products and reduce quite a few things. To give you an example, they can grow a kilo (about 2.1 pounds) of tomatoes with only 20% of the water that other greenhouses needed for the same amount. The reasons why we invest so much in this kind of technology is that we had a hungerwinter in 1944 (WWII) so we made plans to not ever happend something like that again.
Almost hightech? It's one of the most innovative systems in the world.
@@grootsChannel well I'm from the north, and we are a bit modest :)
@@xXTheoLinuxXx Ja dat klopt maar toch. Soms mag je best trots zijn op ons land hoor :)
Kraamzorg also told me the father the 2nd day. " And now its your turn to learn "
Old batleaxe 😂
I'm a Dutchie living in the USA. I can tell you this, the American healthcare system is great IF you have money. I've apparently had an auto-immune disease that started when I was in early adulthood, but I didn't know that. I had strange symptoms which never were explained... Not in the NL, UK, Canada. I had iritis in Canada, got meds etc. I also got hit by it when we moved to the US so I had to find an opthalmologist on arrival without having health care yet so I had to bring a big bag of cash. He asked me questions since this was like the 6th time I was hit with it in the last 1.5y and that seemed suspicious to him. While the other docs focused on treating the symptoms he focused on trying to find the underlying symptoms. He sent me for a bunch of very expensive tests and found something, referred me to a rheumatologist who prescribed meds to me and I've been almost symptom free for 5 years now while before I was at a point where I couldn't even walk to the end of the street without being in agonizing pain and previous doctors prescribed pain meds.
That being said, how casually they prescribe antibiotics and heavy pain meds here is ridiculous, I've had to ask several times for a "downgrade".
You so should check out the Elfstedentocht. Originally an ice skating tour through the 11 "cities" of the province of Friesland. Nowadays we got almost every sport doing the route in some way.
Having a tiny densely populated country does make good healthcare a lot more affordable. Wherever you are, a hospital is probably 5-10 minutes drive away. That means we dont need as many ambulances. Even when people are having acute health problems, they can probably get to a hospital quickly.
I remember when I was a college student, one evening I had acute chest pains, so I called my dad, he came to pick me up and drove me to the hospital in our home town in a pretty short amount of time. Turned out to be pericarditis. In a more remote area I wouldve had to call the emergency number to get a trauma helicopter.
Looking back I should probably have called an ambulance, but I didnt even consider it necessary, when I didnt know that I had a lethal condition.
I have been brought home by ambulances for free. Dutch healthcare is one of the best :P. As she said I as a student get money each month (97 euros right now) to pay for health insurance. The Lowest I could get it for would be about 85 euros, but this amount (97 eur) allows for dental insurance as well. Allowing for about 300 eur a year on dental work (for free as its about 97 eur). This 300 eur covers regular expenses that would be multiple thousands of usd in America. I have once had multiple hours of work needed on mine and it was ALL covered, this procedure would've cost about 10k without insurance in new york... We dutch don't like socialism, but on healthcare it works.
You are co-insured with your parents for medical expenses until you turn 18. From the 1st of the month, after your 18th birthday, you are in charge of your health insurance. You can therefore apply for your own health insurance.
When you give birth in a hospital, that's what your insurance is for. You basically only have to pay an "own risk" sum of around €500, depending on your insurance package. But that sum is a yearly sum for all your healthcare in total. You have the right to change insurance companies every year, so if you are planning on having a child you can be prepared by chosing the insurance that includes baby care.
haha ,i would like to see you visit.we may even keep you
I became a dad 1,5 years ago. And i had parental leave of 7,5 months. We moved from the Netherlands (Arnhem) to just cross the border of germany(Kleve) both cities are roughly 20 kilometers from Nijmegen And i daily crosses the border and drive to the netherlands for my work as a traffic controller.
The dutch goverment paid me for tbe first 5 weeks 70% of my income. And the rest of my time was non paid. But in Germany is still is. So germany paid my 70% of my income for 7 months.
Kraamzorg: getting a baby in a hospital costs the same as getting one at home: 0 Euro (all costs covered by the insurance).
The after-birth-nurse will visit you for several hrs per day in the first week you are at home with a baby (so after u get home from hospital or after u got the baby at home). It can be extended if there are medical reasons (a doctor decides). It is 'free' (a small fee maybe).
About the giving birth at home, its not a money thing its a comfort thing. Obviously doing something like that at home is a much more pleasant experience than in some random hospital room. There will also always be a specially trained 'birthing nurse' there to guide you through the whole thing. You will meet and see this person regularly in the weeks leading up to your expected birth date, and they'll be there the entire time for guidance but also in case something happens. A lot of close bonds are also formed this way. My mom gave birth to me and my siblings at home and our birthing nurse (she had the same one every time) Annemieke became a really close friend of the family. My sister has already decided that whatever happens Annemieke will also be there when she eventually gets kids.
Of course not everybody does this at home. Sometimes your doctor will strongly advise you to do it at the hospital because they have spotted some things that might bring extra risks during birth. C-sections you obviously cannot do at home lol, and there are also people who just want to do it at a hospital or a clinic because they feel that to be the safer option, which is completely understandable too
I'd strongly insist on a hospital birth because safety is paramount, but I'm cheerfully paranoid. If someone who isn't in my monkeysphere wants a home birth I don't see it as a worry, threat or problem.
The netherlands is btw the fourth biggest exporter in the world above countries like japan and india
Health insurance in the Netherlands for youth is also till you are 18 years old. It was a good system, it is being hollowed out now though. To many people that aren't working while they are able
Having a baby at home has nothing to do with insurance. It's a choice you make. In The Netherlands it's pretty common having a baby at home. It's doesn't matter for the insurance though. If you want to go to the hospital and have your baby there, it's insured, do you want to stay at home, insurance will cover that too. And it's in the basic insurance, so available for everybody..
Check out Jovie's Home as well, she is an expat from the U.S. (born in Serbia, then moved as a kid to Canada and then to the U.S.). She made vlogs of some of our provinces, really nicely done, even went to the Eurovision Song contest, got invited to join. She is getting her Dutch citizenship pretty soon and tells about that journey as well. Fun to watch, nice sense of humor and informative as well.
The health insurance here is also till 18 shared with your parents, after that you'll have to get your own.
Roughly explained:
The insurance is not something the government controls, there are multiple insurance companies, but you are legally obliged to have health insurance. The others (Car, house, whatever insurance) you can choose if you want them or not. The insurance is like 100-150 euros a month, and the company your insurance belongs to pays (almost) all your medical bills (some things are not included, depends on which insurance you have). Most people pay more to insurance then they do for medical bills in their life, so the insurance company profits and you don't have to pay 10.000 euros at once for a full body scan if you get in an accident.
The government provides people without income or a handicap (a handicap which prevents them from being able to work) with a budget. The budget depends on your situation. When you're 18, live with your parents, are in school and don't have an income, you'll get like 80 Euros a month from DUO (educational system) and 100 euros (could be less or more, depending on what you spent) from the tax system (Note: once you earn 2800 a month, you have to pay taxes instead of getting money back) . when you're 18, live on your own, have no income and are in school, it could be 600 Euros from DUO a month. The handicap budget is something I don't have the experience for to explain properly.
Don’t know if the answer already has been given. But kids stay on their parents health plan until the age of 18
for a child in the netherlands with healthcare with their parents is also until the child is 18 but it is completely free, no extra charges and if something happens you also don't have to pay "own risk" just register your kid under your own healthcare provider (and even that is free of charge)
Too bad she missed our massive technological innovation industry.
We are very much high tech and beat Silicon Valley easily every year when it comes to high tech innovations, industries and products. It’s all centered more in the south of the Netherlands so even a lot Dutchies don’t even realize this.
The ones with stocks in these companies do! 🤪 They got very rich over the last 15 years..
ASML popped of insanely last 15 years. People don't realize it because they don't make products for end users. It is not a company like apple.
Yup. I'm proud and feel fortunate that I can say I live in Eindhoven (and can contribute) which is recently rebranded to 'Brainport Eindhoven' -> the tech region of The Netherlands
@@rick1901 … I know… I live in Eindhoven too. Worked at ASML for a few years..
Innvoationin NL goes way beyond Tech and that is the most amazing thing. Silicon Valley is IT obsessed - NL develops innovation for agriculture, manufacturing, civil infrastructure, shipping, and so on. The Innovation story in NL is far richer and more diverse than that of Silicon Valley but the Dutch don´t publicly boast about it - just privately among themselves. :)
@@theotherspain .. true.. we almost have a hard time communicating/updating amongst ourselves so fast the innovations go.
And Casey is back in town! Literally, I could just walk over there. You don’t, of course, it’d be invasive. But the thought is homely in a way
About the recycling .... I just have to add some things. We do recycle so we'll, that we need garbage from other countries to keep our burning installations going.
In Nijmegen, we had a test period, for collecting diapers and incontinence material apart from the rest of the trash. They can make bumpers for cars from the plastic inside the diapers and the feces/urine are used for energy. And more and more cities in the Netherlands do this.
But one negative aspect is, that we do collect plastic also apart, but it gets shipped to other countries where it still can get into nature and it still isn't very good for the environment. At least that's what I heard 😢
Dutch agriculture export: total 50,4 billion euro. Product groups: natural fats and fats € 7,85 biljion: Fruit: €7,62 billion, Beverages/Drinks: € 5,95 billion; Other agricultural goods € 5,77 billion and dairy and eggs € 5,71 billion❤❤
For us it's just normal haha
Statiegeld you can see it as a tiny bail. When you buy a bottle in an store here in the Netherlands you pay for the bottle and you pay(bail) 0.25ct for it next to the bottle price when bottle is empty you bring it back you get your 0,25ct back.
for every bottle of coke etc. we pay 0,25 cents, bring it back you get your 0,25 cent back. as a child we loved collecting them
I just watched this video again apparently and want to add something: many (not all) women don't go to a hospital to give birth. Mostly only when there's a chance there's something wrong (eg. when the child is two weeks late, or early).
About having time to cook: In the USA (as I believe) many have multiple jobs, just to pay the bills and/or to pay for their debts. Here in Europe the work/life balance is much healthier. When your job is done, you've got spare time to do what ever you like.
Germany has no kraamzorg. In Germany you get assistance in the hospital since all births are done there. My GF is German and we live in the Netherlands. She was very happy with de kraamzorg we had 😉
Goede video hxc, you are getting smarter and smarter.
The second biggest exporter NOT producer that are 2 different things ! The Netherlands buy and sell also called trade , that is were we are very good in, learned through the centuries .
Also delve into Dutch history. Admiral Michiel de Ruyter (1607 - 1676).
Look at ''Michiel de Ruyter: One of the Greatest
Admirals in History ''
How healthcare works in the Netherlands is what Americans would call a single payer system. Every adult has to have mandatory health insurance, currently about 140-150 euro per month and people with low incomes get it heavily subsidized, even completely free if you make minimum wage.
Health insurance companies can be privately owned or collectively, as cooperations, but they all have to provide a legal minimum of coverage, so the price differences are generally very small.
There are also wage limits for doctors and board members of hospitals. No one is allowed to make more than the prime minister. There are loopholes, many surgeons are organized in their own cooperations which are then subcontracted by hospitals and are thus exempt from the limits.
Overall the system works pretty well but in recent years there has been a lot of strain, coverage is decreasing, prices are going up, and local personal physicians are getting overwhelmed.
Paternity leave is very important for father’s to bond with their child.
Well there’s al lot More than Amsterdam indeed. I instagrammed you twice a link, of something we do in the most southern province . Hope you will review that one. I’ll still throw in a Dutch Bike Bell. 😂
14:47 the wind turbines are subsidised, They aren't cost efficient, they need like car engines, every run for a ceratian amout of time an oil refill... 90 gallons per windturbine, that oil can't be reused... they are made of materials that can't be recycled.... so.. what is the good thing about these things actually?
statiegeld(deposit) on a bottle plastic most of the time. or with a kratjebier case of beer mostly glass. you can deposit them at a supermarket and get some cash for in return.
You found Casey! I love her.
Giving birth at home or in a hospital cost the same: zero. Kraamzorg cost you about € 50 per day, the nurse comes 5 days for 8 hours. We are the second biggest exporter because we also import a lot. We are big at reselling oranges etc.
Listen to Beste Zangers 2021 with Anneke van Giersbergen sing "Sobreviviré". She translated it into english and also listen on this show to Karsu sing "Hije de la luna". You will like both songs..
In 2020 (even during the Covid period) the Netherlands exported 95.6 billion euros worth of agricultural products. About 75% of cultivated agricultural products are destined for export. The Netherlands therefore grows three times more food than is necessary.
About the Paris agreement. When we dutch say were going to do something, we do it
how cool is my country.!!!