‘Freedom’ backfires when it includes freedom to pay workers badly, freedom to charge a lot for lifesaving drugs, freedom to bankrupt someone over medical debt.
Absolute "freedom" is just the law of the jungle. The strongest wins, be it because he is bulkier or rich... Americans are just accepting that and it is sad to see them sink in barbarie...
@@etienne8110There is no such thing as absolute freedom. You are at under the shackles of your own body and nature at the very least. Americans live in a country with a political and economic system that prioritizes individualism and mid to big businesses. That is why.
When i was 12, I realised the look of a truly evil person. I watched a video of a interview in the states between a reporter and businesman (who had recently bought a drug/pharmaceutical company in one of the states) explained that he told the company he now owned to raise the price of a specific life saving drug for a rare chronic condition (one that this company had sole rights to produce and sell in that state, though i dont know which state it was in) 3 fold because that would allow them to increase their profits "nearly" 3 fold according to his analysts... when the reporter asked why he did it, he just said" for profits obviously" and it was perfectly legal, when the reporter asked does he realise that people will die from not being able to buy them anymore, he just said whilst smiling "it is legal and you can't sue me or my company over it" bastard right out went and said he knew he was killing people for profit and this was in 2009, at a news station interview. Like holy shit, the reporters face was shocked and the bastard actually got an even bigger smile from that. I remember this very well because it was after this video that I talked with my parents and found out about how America doesn't have public healthcare and the country actually doesn't consider healthcare a human right in the same way even former soviet block countries do.
Although if the torys get their way this is exactly how they'd like it to be, not to sure labour's NHS intentions either cos their chatting about privatisation as well. This is what it leads to 😢
In the Czech Republic, gun ownership is a right, you do exam (like driving licence, theory and practice), you can have gun, state has no say, concealed carry is mandatory. So, you have no idea, how many guns are here, but you do not see any and we are in top 10 safest countries... It is not about guns, but about culture... BTW: most armed nation in Europe is... Switzerland... They have automatic rifles at home...
Freedom hahaha you guys are so free huh , a little news flash for you , my town is so quiet and free that our police station was closed due to lack of crimes , thats freedom for you , greetings from denmark
As a British resident, the UK is a bad example of Europe being good, but it still is much better than the US. (If you want a good example take the Nordic countries, Denmark and Amsterdam.) Europe has freedom that is miles better than the US, and there is significantly better police and healthcare where we can actually deal with serious crime (although The UK is a bad example)
@@josh-gu6ziAmsterdam is not a country Holland is a country , also it's not a nordic country. Are you sure your from the UK? you seem to have the geographical knowledge of an American.
@John5738 Netherlands (Nederland) is a country, which contains the provinces of Noord Holland and Zuid Holland (North and South Holland), amongst other provinces such as Groningen (don't even attempt the pronunciation unless yiu can do the Dutch "g" first.)
Pepper spray is also illegal in the UK as well. " Thank you for your service " is not a thing in the UK either. Why would you charge someone for an EMERENCY vehicle to attend !!??
It's illegal in Australia too. They charge for ambulances in my State but you can pay a yearly membership of $50 for a single or $100 for a family and if you need one you just give them your member number. My son gets it free in his union dues which are tax deductable. Most have membership and pensioners i.e. disability, aged, unemployed etc don't pay.
@@tkpsI'm in Queensland. Our ambulance service is free, we pay a few dollars extra on our electricity bill to fund it. We don't notice the extra on the bill, but I'm very grateful that we have it after I broke my ankle two years ago and needed a ride to the nearest hospital about 40 minutes away. All basically pre-paid through years of paying a bill I had to pay anyway. Very convenient.
In Italy it actually caused several deaths. Some idiot sprayed it in a crowd and caused a stampede that killed 3 and wounded over 1600. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Turin_stampede. The next year something very similar occurred in Corinaldo, near ancona, where during a concert someone sprayed around pepper spray causing a stampede that killed 6 and wounded 59. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinaldo_stampede Despite it, in Italy these sprays are still legal (although with some limitations).
@@BergenDev technically chemical weapons are illegal in war but not in civil disobedience. That's why police can use it against their own citizens around the world. The military have 2 modes. "War fighting", and "peace keeping" after the invasion succeeds. Their presence becomes a peacekeeping role and can use pepper spray to suppress civil disobedience and restore public order, not an act of war. It's called a loophole
@@Rachel_M_ Technically you can't shoot a 12.7mm High Explosive, Armor Penetrating and Incendiary (Raufoss)at a human, but a human wear equipment, what is your point?
In the UK every few years we have what's called a gun amnesty where people can go into police stations and give them guns they have and there is no questions asked! Police are just glad to get them off the streets.
Hi Charlie. 👋 I'm a Singaporean. Talking about safety, i have gone for walks at 2am to the 24hr convenience store in my neighbourhood because i couldnt sleep and needed a walk and snack. 2am. No fear. Walking in shorts and t-shirt with my wallet and handphone in my hand. I have gone for jogs close to midnight to the park in my neighbourhood by myself with no fear. Personal safety is something i never really had to worry about in over 30 years of living there. Right now, i live in Romania with my husband and son. And we still dont fear getting randomly shot over here. The more i learn about the USA, the more i feel the people living over there are living in an Orwellian dystopia whilst being brainwashed by their government and other propagandists into thinking they are in a great country.
I used to work late nights in Canada and me then wife used to be scared for me walking home late at night in Canada because of American media, I never once encountreded any problems although two incidents in 10 years do come to mind.
As an Aussie, I had an interesting interaction with an American realizing they were messed up - He was a friend of a sibling, younger, staying over at the house. He thought it was weird that the national news was covering a non-fatal stabbing and that we were all shocked about such a low level of violence. Dude had PTSD crazy-eyes after I explained that it's generally pretty non-violent here to the point that a stabbing or someone being sucker-punched can become national news.
Personal freedom ends, where it infringes on the freedom of others. The freedom to bear arms ends, when it affects children to go to school and people to go outside without being afraid of being shot. But fear makes it easier to manipulate the people, so.....
In Europe, if doctors at hospital assumes, that your case is serious, they starts to care for you fast. The more seriois your case is, the faster you are going to be treated. F.e. when my family member came to an ER with failed liver, my mom couldn't follow where the doctors rushed him and what they were doing. They, simply, took him in in a matter of few seconds and rushed him for testing and giving him any help, they could give. And ER, actually, was full of patients, waiting befire him for hours. When your case is not very dangerous for your health, you can wait up to 6 hours to be checked by a doctor in Lithuania. So, f.e. if you have a broken bone and it's not open wound, you have no inner bleeding and something else serious, you might end up waiting for 6 hours to be called in. But if you are barelly concious, unconcious, womitting, bleeding and etc., you're going to be taken inn right at the moment.
Can attest to this. Am lithuanian. Once cracked an upper arm bone in kindergarten when i was about six. Got brought in to a hospital. Had to wait for a pretty long time to get it screened and put in plaster.
@@kamilecapskaite1889 Had broken bones twice. One - at childhood, second - adulthood. In both cases I had to wait for 4-6 hours to be seen by a doctor, while other patients, with more serious conditions were taken inn before me even, if they were brought inn hours later, than I entered the hospital.
When i was last in ER i would have been called in next, when an 80-year looking man came in with chest pains, obviously I stood aside and waited longer, so it took 30 minutes to get seen. But in regular / non-emergency care my longest wait was from 8AM to 2AM the next day (so 18 hours), that sucked. Some issues with the MRI machines caused a massive backup of patients. Overall i still prefer having wasted a day of my life once, than to waste weeks or months of my life cumulatively working to pay a debt back...
Freedom is kids being able to walk to school or play in outside their yard unaccompanied, women not needing pepper spray, being able to afford healthcare no matter what your social status, being able to stand still if a cop asks you t o because you know you won't be shot, being able to rely on a minimum wage even if you serve food and a host of other things that used to happen in the US, just as they still hold true in Europe. My American veteran husband says, when he came back from Vietnam, those many, many freedoms began to be slowly eroded and are now completely replaces by just the one that is supposed to have the forget phrase "as part of an organised militia " as part of its description. One freedom alone doesn't make a nation free. We can have that freedom here too, you just have to prove you are same first and stick to storage rules for your own safety and that of other citizens.
So free it’s illegal to cross the road unless you’re at a crossing. So free you can’t drink alcohol until 21. So free that drs are threatened with prison for providing abortion. Yep freedom. 💁
I've told this story in multiple comments sections like this: I (f26, UK) went to Oxford University when I was 18. Three weeks in, I decided to take myself out to the cinema. I got very lost and Google Maps had decided to stop working. I had no fear going up to two police officers at 8pm on a Friday night and asking them for help. They walked me part of the way (as it turned out, I was going in the wrong direction), ensured I had the number of two taxi companies, knew where the police station was, and told me to enjoy my film and come find them if I needed help and tell them how it was. We saw each other afterwards. Couldn't chat because they were in the middle of arresting some guys, but I had no fear going and asking for the help of the police service and never have.
If you think even a single threat of gun violence at school is "not that bad", you're living in a fully fledged dystopia. You're not living in a civilised society, you're basically in GTA: The School Years!
hi Charlie it is good to hear you are finally able to provide for your family through youtube. I have been watching your video's for over a year now and always enjoy them. muts love to you and the family, greatings from The Netherlands.
Such an eye opener when you see Americans discussing their experiences abroad. As other comments have said pepper spray is illegal in the UK, it’s covered under the Firearms Act so same penalties as carrying a gun. Don’t pay that medical debt! 😊
Yeah big misconception many have. I once waited for 3-4 hours in the waiting room while having a sprained ankle (or something, i dont really remember why i was there), dealing with the pain. I mean it wasn't life threatening so it was okay tbh. EDIT: And i think many people dont go to the ER (Notaufnahme) by themselves, because they have a broken or twisted ankle.
You can end up waiting in all countries, including America. Emergency Rooms prioritize the most urgent cases, not the next in line. They will do a triage assessment and if your situation isn't life threatening you will get bumped down whenever someone with something more serious comes in. If it's life threatening, they will see you ASAP. If it's busy it can take a while. We have people showing up to emergency with minor complaints that a regular family doctor could handle in my country, and they basically wait until a staff member has spare time.
There has been one mass shooting in a school in the UK. It took place in a Scottish primary school in March 1996, 16 children and their teacher were killed. Those children were just 5 and 6 years old. I remember the shock I felt as a parent, my eldest son was the same age as those children at the time. Those horrific events led to a complete change in British gun laws, spearheaded by a campaign involving the dad of one of the children who died - the linked video explains what happened and is well worth a watch ua-cam.com/video/2OzhUKd23DI/v-deo.htmlsi=bdeph43NFWvA9j2V
New Zealand has also had one school shooting. It was in 1923. A man targeted and killed a 9 year old and a 13 year old, and injured 6 other students, one of whom had a limp for the rest of her life. The headmaster was shot in the jaw, and was paralysed in the right arm.
In Italy ambulances are free only for emergencies. So, if you are feeling ill you can call in an ambulance and you will be taken to the nearest hospital (equipped for your condition, so it may be the next nearest hospital because you broke a leg and that hospital is specialised in hortopedics while the nearest isn't). Non emergency trips are for pay. Well, a trip on an ambulance in a non-emergency situation and within a medium-sized city will cost you... Hold on to something... Between 60 and 80 euro depending on the distance.
yeah in Germany its similar. I got the Ambulance called for me because i passed out of drinking too much. They told me afterwards, if i had been over 18, i would have to pay for the ambulance ride, because it was no emergency. They just took me to the hospital laid me down, got me a bucket and waited till my mum picked me up.
@@nicoladc89 well, not really. If you are in an emergency, the ambulance will take you to the nearest hospital equipped for that emergency. That is usually the case for the most severe cases: a person with third degree burns will go to the nearest hospital with a specialised burn department (grandi ustionati). But if you are already followed by a specific hospital and you want to be taken to the same one: the ambulance will usually comply. It's the case of people with chronic illnesses or maybe with a cancer.
I think they are constantly told they are free as a kind of brainwashing, so it wouldn't occur to people that America never got rid of slavery, they just repackaged it.
There are different kinds of freedom. There's "freedom to do..." and there's "freedom from...". American culture only really cares about the first one. When there's a conflict of freedoms only one person gets to keep theirs, and it's usually the richest person.
I'm Canadian and I lived in the Philly for a year and every time a cop would pull me over they were scary and super rude to me. Lecturing me. Back in Canada when I get pull over the cop is courteous and smile and even crack jokes. I was always scared of the cops in the US while back home I feel safe. The cops in Canada don't have the Superiority Complex.
I am always curious as to what freedoms an American thinks they have compered to other countries, other than the freedom to own as many guns as they want, which many other countries would count as a massive block to so many other freedoms.
Have you tried many foods from outside of the us? If you open a PO Box people would probably send you stuff from their country. Tate testing videos seem to do quite well
3 to 4 hours? That's nothing. Here in Quebec, I've waited up to 13 hours in the ER to see a doctor. But in a way its reassuring. The more you wait, the less serious your condition most likely is. That's when I DONT wait that I'm very worried.
Yeah, people forget it's not a waiting list, it's a priority list. They always take the most serious condition first. If it's busy and your condition isn't life threatening you are not the priority.
Exactly. I broke my ankle and had to wait overnight in a hospital in Australia. Once I was seen by a doctor he stated that you wouldn’t want to be the people we saw before you. Triage is a thing.
Once I got hit by a motorcycle at a intersection (crossroads) while walking in the pedestrian crossing (the motorcyclist was coming on the wrong way on traffic and turned a blind corner straight into me), got tossed something like 8 meters, hit my head on the pavement and blacked out for, as I was told, 5 minute more or less. In less than 10 minutes EMTs where on the scene, stabilized me, put a collar on my neck, IV'ed me in painkillers and checked my vitals, ambulance brought me to a ECU (Emergency Care Unit - UPA), where they checked everything again, got x-rays, got CT scans and got MRI scans, I only had to way 6 hours to be discharge because the units senior orthopedist was in a surgery at another hospital and they wanted him to look over me to be sure I was ok and that nothing had gone by unnoticed.
Italy here. When I cut a piece of my thumb I've waited hours to see a doctor, but while I was in the emergency room, 4 patients arrived in code red (highest priority), arrived a 4/5 years old child with a broken arm (and children have a higher priority) etc... A nurse came to check the dressing I had done myself before going to the hospital to see if I needed another one and then I had to wait. It happens, especially in big hospitals. Emergency rooms deal with emergencies and no one can plan for emergencies. Well, you can plan for emergencies if the patients avoid the hospitals because they have to sell their car to pay.
There should be a way to discourage abuse of the system (i.e. using ambulance as a free taxi service to hospital in non emergency cases, or pranks). I wouldn't hesitate to call ambulance for an open fracture, but when my son twisted his ankle I drove him to ER.
@@flitsertheo Meaning you dont live in a modern developed society. In developed countries ambulance, taxi and helicopter to the hospital is free, and free ambulance is the only reasonable.
Weapons are a huge no for most developped countries. In France if you have a knife on you it is forbidden... I had trouble once with the police because of my opinel (a foldable knife made to cut pâté, camembert or sausages😅) Same, some dog breeds are considered weapons and you must walk them with a muzzle. The US are unsafe not because the people there are more dangerous or inclined to crime, but because weapons are so easily available...
That half the people are poor and homeless small scale criminals in "the land of the poor and homeless people" without any modern functioning welfare-system, is definitely not helping on this statistics. A country where people have to pay for education, and by that making most people in the country uneducated and poor. Then fool them with propaganda instead of real news, telling the poor people that the right wing survival of the fittest is actually freedom. And when the poor Americans try to survive by small scale crime, they get prison. -The only service that is actually free to use to the public in the land of the poor and homeless people. The USA has 18 times more people in prison per C then my country, and they spend more on prison to the poor, then free education for everybody would cost.
lol, leave it to the frenchman to get into trouble bc of a food-related utensil that most people in my country (me included) wouldn't even know what specifically to do with .... greetings from Germany XDD
Even more about emergency services covered by basic insurance - no matter which way you are transported - it can be an ambulance, a helicopter or even a small jet if you have to be taken to a specific hospital - every form of urgent medical transport is covered.
Yep, my father had a heart attack halfway up a Lake District mountain, he was flown 80 miles, free of charge, to the nearest specialist hospital on the other side of the country and operated on within hours, because of this he made a full recovery and survived another 17 years until he was 88.
Hi Charlie, a bit of background on why some prices like insurance fluctuate so much in these videos is that some of the people featured are students and in many countries students have subsidised special packages. One big difference across the Atlantic in terms of healthcare is that instead of waiting until the ER is the only place able to help, you should go to your GP for most medical things and they will either be able to treat you or refer you to a specialist. Just for fun I checked for travel insurance from the US to the EU and they seem to be under €30 max per person per week. If you have the chance to visit Europe it won't be insanely expensive and can cover everyone in case something does go wrong.
I love the way that lady's dressed as well. She's so pretty. Also, where I live (France and Germany), if you come across people in a medical emergency, you have to help them as much as you can (at least call an ambulance if you don't have any first aid skills), not doing so is "non-assistance to people in danger" and you will be held accountable, you can't just walk or drive by and do nothing. Whereas I've heard that in the USA, people can sue you because you helped them, e.g. if they have lasting sequellae after treatment, they can go and say: "this guy touched me before the EMTs arrived, it's his fault if I have chronic pain now", for instance, and ask for money in damages... That's crazy, getting sued for potentially saving somebody's life.
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw considering a person sued Mc Donald’s because when they got their hamburger it was cold went on the news, no matter what you say you can’t fix that idiocy. US is a third world country at this point
I work at a company with offices in Europe and North America. I grew up in Europe and work in the head office in my home country. They needed a few people to train some of the North American offices for a few months, so they polled around a bit to see who would be interested to go, and what kind of arrangement people would be happy with. They got a couple of nice furnished downtown apartments, some lease cars. When asked "what kind of compensation would you be happy with for staying there for 3-6 months?" quite a few colleagues, myself included, answered with a clear and simple "No.". They finally did manage to scrape 4 people together for the first 3 months. After that all US offices sent their staff over here for the training, and then they would return to train the rest of the staff there. I've been to the US five times between 2004-2018, and saw that place deteriorate rapidly. I am not ever going back there.
From what I see online the US seems to be a country full of political partisans. I don't see that animosity towards opposition parties in any other western country. I sometimes wonder if that behaviour is encouraged so that people end up bickering among themselves, distracting them from looking at the bigger picture. The US could be an amazing country, but that requires all people to come together and demand better from your government, regardless of who is in power. It seems to me that too many politicians are not there to represent the interests of the people, but the interests of lobby groups. This sort of behaviour is not allowed in most governments as it creates a conflict of interest. You need to rip that out of your political system. You will never have serious conversations around healthcare, the environment, gun control etc., until you stop politicians from making money from these lobbyists.
I am Australian: however, I feel Americans really should start thinking about and realizing that social democracy in your people’s minds automatically means communism. In 2024, there are sixteen full democratic socialist countries in the world, including Australia, and others with varying degrees of democratic socialism and they all function as robust democratic countries with a high GDP and GDP per capita. The social democratic parties in all these countries social democratic parties are voted in and out office for decades. It just means that there is balance to the political system. That is why these countries have the social security system like what we have in Australia and other democratic countries, where taxpayers’ money returns it back into assisting all its citizens in the form of health care, unemployment benefits, childcare support & carers benefits. We still function as prosperous developed countries.
the uk does a good triage system, you can wait but you know its because some people are sicker, and yes it is annoying, but we know its about other people
You can wait hours if you have to visit A&E on a Friday or Saturday evening. But it's true, I'd you have to wait you aren't an emergency. Took my daughter one time and, though there were loads of people in front of us, we were seen immediately. Luckily she checked out fine
Hi Charlie, a Brit here, love your reactions, keep ‘em coming………have you seen ‘Know your Ally’, a US army film explaining the UK to soldiers who were being posted to the UK during WW2……excellent film, you’ll cry with pride…………👍🏻😊
why do they charge because its a Business. why no public transport, because they want to sell cars and insurance, why no free health care, because tyey want to make money to donate to the politicians, merica is about $$$$ thats it if it can be done cheaper more money, its short term profit over long term wealth.
I’m Franco-American & have lived in France now for a long time.. I heard that since Covid, Americans have been rethinking their priorities & how they live. Covid gave them the free time to spend with their family & it was a big eye opener for some..
I'm French and one time I complained that I've had to pay for my ambulance and I found it expensive. Then I learnt what it cost in the USA and I was dumbfounded. I had about 40€ to pay that were not covered for like 2 or 3 ambulances that I had to take this year (so yeah less than 50€ for my yearly ambulance needs as a disabled person, something between $45 to $50 in /freedom currency/).
I’ve believed you guys are brainwashed at a very young age, to think you live in the greatest country in the world. As a young Aussie I believed that too. I now know that although not completely faultless, I most likely live in the greatest country in the world. Our governments have always done their best to make us feel safe and secure. Although we have a problem with youth crime at the moment, I’m sure it will be solved in the future. ❤Australia
American Soldiers are heroes.... unless they are homeless and "leeching off the system", or need longtime care, or got messed up from the war situations they have been in, but other than that... heroes. /s
In the most European Countries healthcare ore emergency transports aren’t free at all, but it‘s covered by the healthcare systems… and usually you have to pay for your „Social insurance“, but as your taxes that‘s already detucted from your gross wage… so usually the public sector, the employer and the employee finance the healthcare system. And even if there are some people who don‘t finance their part, the system is currently strong enough to“swallow“ it without getting bancrupt…
That girl talking about that gun threat at school and thinking it's normal, is it really that common in the US for that to happen? I mean, I'm 44 and I've never been threatened with a gun, I don't even know anyone that has been threatened with a gun, so it must be very rare where I live in the UK, and I wouldn't even say the UK is one of the safest countries, at least by modern standards. It probably explains the security guards at school in the US, which I've never heard of that concept in other countries and there must be there for a reason, likely safety reasons, still, from the outside, it's a bit weird that it's needed at all and suggest there are bigger problems in society that needs addressing.
In Australia I've never been worried about getting shot, ever, in over 40 years. There were never any guards at my high schools. I've only seen one non-uniformed person carrying a gun in the street. He had a pistol in a shoulder holster under his jacket and he was running down the street. I quickly realised he was a plain clothes cop. Despite what the NRA and gun nuts would have you believe; we still have guns in Australia. We just have sensible rules and restrictions around owning them, and we don't have a culture that glorifies and condones shooting people.
@@Pushing_Pixels I live in Norway, and I have actually just seen a cop with a gun one time in my country, and he was inside a police station. The cops only carry guns if there is something really crazy going on here in Norway. -like the terrorist attack on Utøya.
In Germany, people tend to complain in the hospital about long waiting times. The thing is: if you have to wait for hours over here that means the only person that is in worse condition than you is the one that couldn't be helped anyway and every other person being served before you are suffering more than you and therefore need help more immediately than you. So: be glad if you have to wait in a german hospital.
It’s the same in the UK, the people with the worst problems get seen first, it doesn’t stop the right wing press whipping up campaigns for privatisation, even though they know that they are distorting the picture.
I've asked this question of dozens of Americans, and I still haven't had a satisfactory answer. Exactly what freedoms do you have in the USA that you think we don't have in the UK or Europe?
@@Timbothruster-fh3cwwe have no reason to defend ourselves or our property becos nobody has a gun & would come & threaten to take what you have. Violence against violence will not work. Get rid of the money making NRS lobby & your lives will be so much better.
@@Timbothruster-fh3cwfrom what? we can defend our property in the uk with appropriate force, you don’t however have to defend it with a gun because nobody has a gun. No one gets killed either defending themselves or their property but the reality is a decent lock is enough to deter criminals. We don’t live with the fear of criminals attacking our homes with guns because it never happens. Gun crime is extremely rare and more or less limited to drugs gangs shooting each other and about once a decade we have a legal gun owner shooting his family, friends or neighbours (and inevitably himself). You have more accidental gun deaths than we have total murders, we don’t have kids accidentally shooting each other, frightened people shooting their drunk neighbours, people accidentally killing their own family etc. We live in the civilised world.
The girl who wore white and spoke about grenada, the wrap on her head is part of her braids. The ends are white and she has her braids in a top center pony tail with the rest wrapped around like a bun.
Love your content. Thanks, Charlie. Regarding 2nd video. His experience is rare. Few hospitals have extra cameras around the bay that enable entry staff to optimize the patient intake process in that manner. It's just beautiful when a building and the people that run it understand that some very favorable downstream effects don't cost a lot or in the end might even save money for other needs. There should always be a Second, somebody there who explains along during evaluation what is happening to provide some sense of security through understanding during a tumultuous event. Diagnostic care is a full time attention effort thing, securing the patient's ability to make informed decisions is another full time attention effort thing. (In short, optimize for patient outcome, not profits, f those ghouls.) Not in a robot and soothing lier sort of way, but in a dedicated physician and translator sort of way. That's what patient intake could look like, what the healthcare industry should look like; proper incentives that structure success around downstream long-term savings provided by vigorous commitment to patient outcome, not shareholder profit. Pissing away potential on shortsighted greed is the saddest waste, period.
Hi.lm pleased that you speak English 😂alot of Americans use English words with the wrong meaning 😅im a kiwi 🥝 and I've been living in Amsterdam for 40.years. Americans like.like.like.i have trouble understanding them. And my mother language is English 😅😅😅
What is it with that word “like?” Especially Gen-Z’ers,their “conversations” are littered with that word…….. ‘I was like,literally,dying when my fake nails,like,fell off” This world is fucked.
Thank you for these, I was complaining about how Belgium and the Netherlands cant manage to get stuff arranged for people living in Be and working on NL but thanks to these im back down on earth like: hey could be worse, I could have been American ...
We also had jail for debt back in ancient times. And also the possibility to inherit debt from your parents. Not legal practices any more in any developed countries i know of today.
To be clear. The average thai thinks very carefully before going to a private hospital. 300 Dollars in Thailand can be that person's monthly income. That couple in thailand could afford it because they're rich white people working rich white jobs in Thailand.
One informatin about Health care in France. They did something really smart. Every citizen has got a card. Every doctor, every hospital, every clinic, every exam laboratory, has a card reader: when they put you card in their card reader, they can see on they computer ALL your medical history. This way, no matter where you are, if ever met the doctor you're in, or if you go in an hospital when you're in vacation far from your city, they'll know your medical history, allegries, previous tretments, medicine and drugs you are prescrived to take and in what amount. That is genious, brillant... There is something similar in Italy, but far from this efficency... sometimes it requres hours to get the data stored by other hospitals and no way to get datas from random doctors, while in France EVERY doctor MUST HAVE the card reader to read and put the data in or cannot stay in business And all of this is obviously 100% free
What countries still have siestas? A siesta (from Spanish, pronounced [ˈsjesta] and meaning "nap") is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. Unfortunately, many Spaniards today hardly get their forty winks due to various reasons like long job commutes and long office work hours. Nevertheless, siesta is still embraced in other parts of the world like in Greece, Italy, Nigeria, and the Philippines. Siesta is a sacred tradition in Greek culture.
@@geordineilson5476 nope, incorrect, slavery is alive still today. And I'm not just talking central Africa, but human trafficking is mostly enslaved women exported for sex industry. These are also slaves as they have no choice in the matter
@@geordineilson5476 well, I found out that I was wrong, slavery is still alive in parts of Africa and I the western world we tend to call it human trafficking. Illegal, but it still happens
The last day of German school before the final exams, when we were supposed to spend the next month or two just learning, there's always a big thing organized by the pupils leaving, which is a celebration for them because last day and for the younger ones due to pranks and school ending early. When it was my class's turn, there was an active shooter two states over. Killed 17 people, himself included. That news spread like wildfire early on and obviously killed the mood, although I seem to remember (it has been over 20 years^^) that we at least tried to keep up a facade for the youngest kids. That's the closest I've ever come to a school shooting, and I bet the vast majority of Germans have way, way less than that.
My home insurance is 3 euro per month, my general Insurance (WA) for when you break something from somebooty else.. is about 3 euro per month. Healthcare premium insurance.. 200 euro per month + 380 euro per year for my own risk.
6:15 Just to clarify, in big German cities you usually have to wait several hours as well. Granted that depends a bit on how sick you are. She may gave been very rural or it was a very quiet night or she was extremely poorly.
There's an old joke here about the American leaving the British hospital and asks where to pay the bill, the nurse replies what bill, this is the civilised world.
Ill make it very simple, I'm from the uk, and i love to travel. Ive been to 36 countries. I dont want to visit the USA, because of all the guns. But even if i did, your government wont let me , because i once got charged with drink driving. (18 years ago). I may be a "threat" to national security! 😂
Your 2nd Amendment of the American constitution guarantees the right to bear arm's , which is fact , however , it also states that it should be well regulated it is this part of the 2nd amendment that seems to be overlooked. And yes we are all slaves to our countries , but it would seem that the majority of " free countries" take good care of the people , but America treats it's people like dog's , and tax the life out of them , if that is freedom then I am glad I don't have to live in fear for my life my loved one's being murdered because your governments greed out weighs the people's safety , that's not freedom that is Anarchy.
Never thought I would comment on someone's appearance (as wrong as you can be) But; the woman at 11:24 takes all prices. Such class... And intelligence
The fear of men is worse in rural areas because women are less likely to be believed reporting an assault because cops know the people in the area and will assume the best of the men.
We look on in awe & amazement when we see you guys lionising people who served in the military. The behaviours you described - thanking people for their service etc. - seems bizarre to many of us. That kind of thing usually only happens in militaristic dictatorships.😂 But, although people do that to the young, fit, unscarred people who do serve; veterans with missing limbs, or incapacitating mental health problems, get treated so badly? Geez, many of them end up homeless! (Now that rarely happens in a militarist dictatorship😄) Is it perhaps that the clean, shiny faces of those who are currently serving, are the faces of strong protection. But those who are brought up against the horrific toll the reality of war/conflicts really takes is something no-one wants to see? What will happen to you if you don't pay it? I got a little worried when you said you weren't going to pay your medical debt. Can they send in the bailiffs or anything? Or will they just continue to send a bill for a few years and then give up?
At some point the hospital gives up. They then sell the debt to a financial firm that deals in medical debt. They usually pay 20 to 50 cents on the dollar for it, depending on a variety of factors. The financial firm hires a bill collector who will call and harass you for a couple years. Eventually they will give up. If you don't pay your debt, however, you can expect a big hit to your credit score.
Here in Canada I got t-boned at an intersection. The ambulance came pretty quickly and I was checked out. Though I was basically alright they insisted on taking me to the hospital emergency. I was whisked straight in and was more thoroughly examined. Cost me nothing.
btc. food poisoning in Germany is very rare ...like veeeery rare...also the tap water is always drinking water and has even higher controls than bottled water
Same in Norway. I remember people got sick from chocolate back in the late 80s, and we still make jokes about that brand of chocolate. We also had some e.coli bacteria in a batch of minced meat back in the 90s, making children sick.
Man i really hope your channel can give you more than the minimum. I'm glad you even made it so far but you and american girl are just so sympathic i hope it will provide you a very good life soon 😊
In France, emergency rooms are overcrowded, and you can wait up to 12 hours to get treatment, then wait 6 more hours between each exams if your condition is not life threatening. Nonetheless you end up leaving without paying a dime. However, once I got knocked over by a car once and they immediately took me in, scanned me, and 30 minutes later they told me I had only concussion and I was free to leave. When I left the hospital, I felt like one of the character from GTA leaving the hospital after being killed.
Emergency rooms are emergency rooms, you cannot know how much you have to wait, at least you are dying and you don't wait. I'm Italian and I went to ER three times in my life, the first because I tripped and cut my forehead above my eyebrow, the second because I cut a piece of my thumb with a circular saw (breaking the bone). In all the cases they assigned me a yellow code (the second priority level after red), the third because I fell off my bike and hit my head. The first time, after a couple of hours I was already home with 8 stitches in my head and only because the doctors wanted to keep me under observation for a while, due to the blow to the head. The second I had to wait hours. The third I told the reception what had happened and after 25 seconds they were examining me (that time, however, they hospitalized me for one night as a precations).
In Belgium pepperspray is illegal too. But like the woman in the video I wouldn't know why I would need it. I'm 51 now and from the age of 15 I went out on my own on foot, bus or bike at night and I never felt unsafe, never had anything happen to me. To clarify about vacation days, I don't know if that is everywhere in Europe, but in Belgium you don't have vacation in the first year you work after finishing school. In my case the first year I worked was in a firm that closed 3 weeks in summer and 1 week between christmas and new year. Workers with vacation time receive vacation pay in this period and because I didn't have the right to vacation pay yet I received temporary unemployment compensation.
I find the whole thanking military for their service very weird. I actually heard it twice while I was visiting - because lots of stores give discounts to military and veterans - I feel that is creepy.
Yeah I find it weard too and that’s something I would never do personally, why should I thank a murderer? Especially if they go to for example steal oil… no thanks.
@@NaeniaNightingale I wander what they thank them for..? Thank you for stealing another nations value, to feed the richest % in USA.. It is not like the poor people in the streets get any of this stolen goods.
In Germany running an ambulance with medication and people over one year costs about 1 Million Euro. The payment ist calculated very easily. You just calculate all emergencies, the ambulance had to respond and divied the million (or the current costs) by the number. The next year the service company will get for each emergency call this amount, no matter if it was just a plaster or reanimation, with oxygen and everything. In big cities one emergency call will cost the health insurance around 400€ and in rural areas, where there are less calls it might even be up to 1000€ per call. But that's it. The city or county calculated the costs with the service provider and every insurance will pay this. And the person in need has to pay 10€. Just if you called the ambulance and because of a medical reason, they want to bring you to a hospital, but you refuse, the service provider may charge the amount to you, as the health insurance has only to pay for the ambulance, if the abmulance brings you to the hospital.
Veterans... tread them with respect... but don't forget that there are dark secrets. Im German and my Grandmother sufferd horrible by the hands of American Soldiers...
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‘Freedom’ backfires when it includes freedom to pay workers badly, freedom to charge a lot for lifesaving drugs, freedom to bankrupt someone over medical debt.
Absolute "freedom" is just the law of the jungle. The strongest wins, be it because he is bulkier or rich...
Americans are just accepting that and it is sad to see them sink in barbarie...
@@etienne8110There is no such thing as absolute freedom. You are at under the shackles of your own body and nature at the very least. Americans live in a country with a political and economic system that prioritizes individualism and mid to big businesses. That is why.
I thought American freedom was spelled freedumb.
@@AromaBlue Prioritizing big businesses, for sure.
When i was 12, I realised the look of a truly evil person. I watched a video of a interview in the states between a reporter and businesman (who had recently bought a drug/pharmaceutical company in one of the states) explained that he told the company he now owned to raise the price of a specific life saving drug for a rare chronic condition (one that this company had sole rights to produce and sell in that state, though i dont know which state it was in) 3 fold because that would allow them to increase their profits "nearly" 3 fold according to his analysts... when the reporter asked why he did it, he just said" for profits obviously" and it was perfectly legal, when the reporter asked does he realise that people will die from not being able to buy them anymore, he just said whilst smiling "it is legal and you can't sue me or my company over it" bastard right out went and said he knew he was killing people for profit and this was in 2009, at a news station interview. Like holy shit, the reporters face was shocked and the bastard actually got an even bigger smile from that.
I remember this very well because it was after this video that I talked with my parents and found out about how America doesn't have public healthcare and the country actually doesn't consider healthcare a human right in the same way even former soviet block countries do.
No disrespect but you couldn't pay me enough to live in the USA
Me too, I agree 💯 percent
You couldn't pay me to live in Europe, but everybody's different I guess.
why?@@Timbothruster-fh3cw
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw Reason?
Me either
True freedom is when you don't need to constantly remind others you're free. It's just a given.
In uk..gun ownership is a Privilege and healthcare is a basic human right..America is the opposite lol
Although if the torys get their way this is exactly how they'd like it to be, not to sure labour's NHS intentions either cos their chatting about privatisation as well. This is what it leads to 😢
In the Czech Republic, gun ownership is a right, you do exam (like driving licence, theory and practice), you can have gun, state has no say, concealed carry is mandatory. So, you have no idea, how many guns are here, but you do not see any and we are in top 10 safest countries... It is not about guns, but about culture... BTW: most armed nation in Europe is... Switzerland... They have automatic rifles at home...
@@frantiseklaluch6605 'Culture' being the most important point, and where the UK is being destroyed from within
Freedom hahaha you guys are so free huh , a little news flash for you , my town is so quiet and free that our police station was closed due to lack of crimes , thats freedom for you , greetings from denmark
Obnoxious for a Dane . Greetings from Canada
As a British resident, the UK is a bad example of Europe being good, but it still is much better than the US. (If you want a good example take the Nordic countries, Denmark and Amsterdam.) Europe has freedom that is miles better than the US, and there is significantly better police and healthcare where we can actually deal with serious crime (although The UK is a bad example)
@@josh-gu6ziAmsterdam is not a country Holland is a country , also it's not a nordic country. Are you sure your from the UK? you seem to have the geographical knowledge of an American.
@@johnn5738 Holland isn't a country its a region in the Netherlands^^
@John5738 Netherlands (Nederland) is a country, which contains the provinces of Noord Holland and Zuid Holland (North and South Holland), amongst other provinces such as Groningen (don't even attempt the pronunciation unless yiu can do the Dutch "g" first.)
USA everyone can buy a gun to "protect theirselfs",also USA everyone is scared AS expecting that everyone also has a gun!!!Old West in 2023 🤣
Pepper spray is also illegal in the UK as well.
" Thank you for your service " is not a thing in the UK either.
Why would you charge someone for an EMERENCY vehicle to attend !!??
It's illegal in Australia too. They charge for ambulances in my State but you can pay a yearly membership of $50 for a single or $100 for a family and if you need one you just give them your member number. My son gets it free in his union dues which are tax deductable. Most have membership and pensioners i.e. disability, aged, unemployed etc don't pay.
Pepper spray is banned her in Denmark also
@@tkpsI'm in Queensland. Our ambulance service is free, we pay a few dollars extra on our electricity bill to fund it. We don't notice the extra on the bill, but I'm very grateful that we have it after I broke my ankle two years ago and needed a ride to the nearest hospital about 40 minutes away. All basically pre-paid through years of paying a bill I had to pay anyway. Very convenient.
Pepper spray banned in Italy as well... Europe in general has less than one tenth of the violent crimes per-capita than US, less beed to be armed.
It’s also illegal here in Canada. I thank God every day that I was born on this side of the border.
Pepper spray is banned in most countries because it’s a chemical weapon!
Not even the military use chemical weapons 😂
In Italy it actually caused several deaths. Some idiot sprayed it in a crowd and caused a stampede that killed 3 and wounded over 1600. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Turin_stampede. The next year something very similar occurred in Corinaldo, near ancona, where during a concert someone sprayed around pepper spray causing a stampede that killed 6 and wounded 59. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corinaldo_stampede Despite it, in Italy these sprays are still legal (although with some limitations).
In Greece, police throws chemicals to people every now and then😡
Not sure about that chief. If you have cluster ammunition, you sure as hell have chem weapons.
@@BergenDev technically chemical weapons are illegal in war but not in civil disobedience.
That's why police can use it against their own citizens around the world.
The military have 2 modes. "War fighting", and "peace keeping" after the invasion succeeds. Their presence becomes a peacekeeping role and can use pepper spray to suppress civil disobedience and restore public order, not an act of war.
It's called a loophole
@@Rachel_M_ Technically you can't shoot a 12.7mm High Explosive, Armor Penetrating and Incendiary (Raufoss)at a human, but a human wear equipment, what is your point?
In the UK every few years we have what's called a gun amnesty where people can go into police stations and give them guns they have and there is no questions asked! Police are just glad to get them off the streets.
and we have knife bins which are designed to reduce the number of knifes on the streets that might be used in crime. They are anonymous.
Hi Charlie. 👋 I'm a Singaporean. Talking about safety, i have gone for walks at 2am to the 24hr convenience store in my neighbourhood because i couldnt sleep and needed a walk and snack. 2am. No fear. Walking in shorts and t-shirt with my wallet and handphone in my hand. I have gone for jogs close to midnight to the park in my neighbourhood by myself with no fear. Personal safety is something i never really had to worry about in over 30 years of living there. Right now, i live in Romania with my husband and son. And we still dont fear getting randomly shot over here. The more i learn about the USA, the more i feel the people living over there are living in an Orwellian dystopia whilst being brainwashed by their government and other propagandists into thinking they are in a great country.
I used to work late nights in Canada and me then wife used to be scared for me walking home late at night in Canada because of American media, I never once encountreded any problems although two incidents in 10 years do come to mind.
As an Aussie, I had an interesting interaction with an American realizing they were messed up - He was a friend of a sibling, younger, staying over at the house. He thought it was weird that the national news was covering a non-fatal stabbing and that we were all shocked about such a low level of violence.
Dude had PTSD crazy-eyes after I explained that it's generally pretty non-violent here to the point that a stabbing or someone being sucker-punched can become national news.
Personal freedom ends, where it infringes on the freedom of others. The freedom to bear arms ends, when it affects children to go to school and people to go outside without being afraid of being shot. But fear makes it easier to manipulate the people, so.....
In Europe, if doctors at hospital assumes, that your case is serious, they starts to care for you fast. The more seriois your case is, the faster you are going to be treated. F.e. when my family member came to an ER with failed liver, my mom couldn't follow where the doctors rushed him and what they were doing. They, simply, took him in in a matter of few seconds and rushed him for testing and giving him any help, they could give. And ER, actually, was full of patients, waiting befire him for hours. When your case is not very dangerous for your health, you can wait up to 6 hours to be checked by a doctor in Lithuania. So, f.e. if you have a broken bone and it's not open wound, you have no inner bleeding and something else serious, you might end up waiting for 6 hours to be called in. But if you are barelly concious, unconcious, womitting, bleeding and etc., you're going to be taken inn right at the moment.
Can attest to this. Am lithuanian. Once cracked an upper arm bone in kindergarten when i was about six. Got brought in to a hospital. Had to wait for a pretty long time to get it screened and put in plaster.
@@kamilecapskaite1889 Had broken bones twice. One - at childhood, second - adulthood. In both cases I had to wait for 4-6 hours to be seen by a doctor, while other patients, with more serious conditions were taken inn before me even, if they were brought inn hours later, than I entered the hospital.
When i was last in ER i would have been called in next, when an 80-year looking man came in with chest pains, obviously I stood aside and waited longer, so it took 30 minutes to get seen. But in regular / non-emergency care my longest wait was from 8AM to 2AM the next day (so 18 hours), that sucked. Some issues with the MRI machines caused a massive backup of patients. Overall i still prefer having wasted a day of my life once, than to waste weeks or months of my life cumulatively working to pay a debt back...
@@aki-senkinn Exactly. And non emergency cases are non emergency cases.
Freedom is kids being able to walk to school or play in outside their yard unaccompanied, women not needing pepper spray, being able to afford healthcare no matter what your social status, being able to stand still if a cop asks you t o because you know you won't be shot, being able to rely on a minimum wage even if you serve food and a host of other things that used to happen in the US, just as they still hold true in Europe. My American veteran husband says, when he came back from Vietnam, those many, many freedoms began to be slowly eroded and are now completely replaces by just the one that is supposed to have the forget phrase "as part of an organised militia " as part of its description. One freedom alone doesn't make a nation free. We can have that freedom here too, you just have to prove you are same first and stick to storage rules for your own safety and that of other citizens.
None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 28 August 1749 - 22 March 1832
I think u should say what he was for the americans , and this is sad
If using taxmoney for healthcare is communist/socialist, how do you call it if it is used for military???
Exactly what our taxes should used for, attending to our citizens.
ironically, Healthcare costs the taxpayers the most in USA as well.
So free it’s illegal to cross the road unless you’re at a crossing. So free you can’t drink alcohol until 21. So free that drs are threatened with prison for providing abortion. Yep freedom. 💁
Nahhhh, I think they call that common sense.
I've told this story in multiple comments sections like this:
I (f26, UK) went to Oxford University when I was 18. Three weeks in, I decided to take myself out to the cinema. I got very lost and Google Maps had decided to stop working.
I had no fear going up to two police officers at 8pm on a Friday night and asking them for help. They walked me part of the way (as it turned out, I was going in the wrong direction), ensured I had the number of two taxi companies, knew where the police station was, and told me to enjoy my film and come find them if I needed help and tell them how it was.
We saw each other afterwards. Couldn't chat because they were in the middle of arresting some guys, but I had no fear going and asking for the help of the police service and never have.
If you think even a single threat of gun violence at school is "not that bad", you're living in a fully fledged dystopia. You're not living in a civilised society, you're basically in GTA: The School Years!
hi Charlie it is good to hear you are finally able to provide for your family through youtube. I have been watching your video's for over a year now and always enjoy them. muts love to you and the family, greatings from The Netherlands.
Such an eye opener when you see Americans discussing their experiences abroad. As other comments have said pepper spray is illegal in the UK, it’s covered under the Firearms Act so same penalties as carrying a gun. Don’t pay that medical debt! 😊
You don't always get "quick service" in Germany. Sometimes you will have to wait at the ER. It depends.
Yeah big misconception many have. I once waited for 3-4 hours in the waiting room while having a sprained ankle (or something, i dont really remember why i was there), dealing with the pain. I mean it wasn't life threatening so it was okay tbh.
EDIT: And i think many people dont go to the ER (Notaufnahme) by themselves, because they have a broken or twisted ankle.
You can end up waiting in all countries, including America. Emergency Rooms prioritize the most urgent cases, not the next in line. They will do a triage assessment and if your situation isn't life threatening you will get bumped down whenever someone with something more serious comes in. If it's life threatening, they will see you ASAP. If it's busy it can take a while. We have people showing up to emergency with minor complaints that a regular family doctor could handle in my country, and they basically wait until a staff member has spare time.
@@Pushing_Pixels yeah thats like the standard. But some people think some countries treat every patient as an emergency.
There has been one mass shooting in a school in the UK. It took place in a Scottish primary school in March 1996, 16 children and their teacher were killed. Those children were just 5 and 6 years old. I remember the shock I felt as a parent, my eldest son was the same age as those children at the time. Those horrific events led to a complete change in British gun laws, spearheaded by a campaign involving the dad of one of the children who died - the linked video explains what happened and is well worth a watch ua-cam.com/video/2OzhUKd23DI/v-deo.htmlsi=bdeph43NFWvA9j2V
New Zealand has also had one school shooting.
It was in 1923. A man targeted and killed a 9 year old and a 13 year old, and injured 6 other students, one of whom had a limp for the rest of her life.
The headmaster was shot in the jaw, and was paralysed in the right arm.
In Italy ambulances are free only for emergencies. So, if you are feeling ill you can call in an ambulance and you will be taken to the nearest hospital (equipped for your condition, so it may be the next nearest hospital because you broke a leg and that hospital is specialised in hortopedics while the nearest isn't). Non emergency trips are for pay. Well, a trip on an ambulance in a non-emergency situation and within a medium-sized city will cost you... Hold on to something... Between 60 and 80 euro depending on the distance.
yeah in Germany its similar. I got the Ambulance called for me because i passed out of drinking too much. They told me afterwards, if i had been over 18, i would have to pay for the ambulance ride, because it was no emergency. They just took me to the hospital laid me down, got me a bucket and waited till my mum picked me up.
You can choose which hospital to be transported to, but only within the area of the local health authority.
@@nicoladc89 well, not really. If you are in an emergency, the ambulance will take you to the nearest hospital equipped for that emergency. That is usually the case for the most severe cases: a person with third degree burns will go to the nearest hospital with a specialised burn department (grandi ustionati). But if you are already followed by a specific hospital and you want to be taken to the same one: the ambulance will usually comply. It's the case of people with chronic illnesses or maybe with a cancer.
They tell you that you are free, but, do they ever define what freedom is?
Free to be an uneducated workforce and market of consumers. That's all.
I think they are constantly told they are free as a kind of brainwashing, so it wouldn't occur to people that America never got rid of slavery, they just repackaged it.
There are different kinds of freedom. There's "freedom to do..." and there's "freedom from...". American culture only really cares about the first one. When there's a conflict of freedoms only one person gets to keep theirs, and it's usually the richest person.
@@Pushing_Pixels And in USA you have freedumb. Meaning you have to pay for education, but it is free to be dumb.
I'm Canadian and I lived in the Philly for a year and every time a cop would pull me over they were scary and super rude to me. Lecturing me. Back in Canada when I get pull over the cop is courteous and smile and even crack jokes. I was always scared of the cops in the US while back home I feel safe. The cops in Canada don't have the Superiority Complex.
Why is the American war for freedom always fought in another country, especially if they have oil or minerals
I am always curious as to what freedoms an American thinks they have compered to other countries, other than the freedom to own as many guns as they want, which many other countries would count as a massive block to so many other freedoms.
Have you tried many foods from outside of the us? If you open a PO Box people would probably send you stuff from their country. Tate testing videos seem to do quite well
What Sian said 👏👏
I second this!
3 to 4 hours? That's nothing. Here in Quebec, I've waited up to 13 hours in the ER to see a doctor. But in a way its reassuring. The more you wait, the less serious your condition most likely is. That's when I DONT wait that I'm very worried.
Yeah, people forget it's not a waiting list, it's a priority list. They always take the most serious condition first. If it's busy and your condition isn't life threatening you are not the priority.
Exactly. I broke my ankle and had to wait overnight in a hospital in Australia. Once I was seen by a doctor he stated that you wouldn’t want to be the people we saw before you. Triage is a thing.
Once I got hit by a motorcycle at a intersection (crossroads) while walking in the pedestrian crossing (the motorcyclist was coming on the wrong way on traffic and turned a blind corner straight into me), got tossed something like 8 meters, hit my head on the pavement and blacked out for, as I was told, 5 minute more or less.
In less than 10 minutes EMTs where on the scene, stabilized me, put a collar on my neck, IV'ed me in painkillers and checked my vitals, ambulance brought me to a ECU (Emergency Care Unit - UPA), where they checked everything again, got x-rays, got CT scans and got MRI scans, I only had to way 6 hours to be discharge because the units senior orthopedist was in a surgery at another hospital and they wanted him to look over me to be sure I was ok and that nothing had gone by unnoticed.
Italy here. When I cut a piece of my thumb I've waited hours to see a doctor, but while I was in the emergency room, 4 patients arrived in code red (highest priority), arrived a 4/5 years old child with a broken arm (and children have a higher priority) etc...
A nurse came to check the dressing I had done myself before going to the hospital to see if I needed another one and then I had to wait. It happens, especially in big hospitals.
Emergency rooms deal with emergencies and no one can plan for emergencies. Well, you can plan for emergencies if the patients avoid the hospitals because they have to sell their car to pay.
For me, someone having to pay for the ambulance is the same thing as a homeless person having to pay for charity food at the soup kitchen.
There should be a way to discourage abuse of the system (i.e. using ambulance as a free taxi service to hospital in non emergency cases, or pranks).
I wouldn't hesitate to call ambulance for an open fracture, but when my son twisted his ankle I drove him to ER.
@@krzysztofsmigrodzki7097 Why would you. A normal taxi to the hospital is already free in developed countries.
There are some costs involved operating an ambulance so I would consider a reasonable amount to be paid normal.
@@flitsertheo Meaning you dont live in a modern developed society.
In developed countries ambulance, taxi and helicopter to the hospital is free, and free ambulance is the only reasonable.
Weapons are a huge no for most developped countries.
In France if you have a knife on you it is forbidden... I had trouble once with the police because of my opinel (a foldable knife made to cut pâté, camembert or sausages😅)
Same, some dog breeds are considered weapons and you must walk them with a muzzle.
The US are unsafe not because the people there are more dangerous or inclined to crime, but because weapons are so easily available...
Not true
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw pourquoi "pas vrai" ?
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw It is true.
That half the people are poor and homeless small scale criminals in "the land of the poor and homeless people" without any modern functioning welfare-system, is definitely not helping on this statistics.
A country where people have to pay for education, and by that making most people in the country uneducated and poor. Then fool them with propaganda instead of real news, telling the poor people that the right wing survival of the fittest is actually freedom. And when the poor Americans try to survive by small scale crime, they get prison. -The only service that is actually free to use to the public in the land of the poor and homeless people.
The USA has 18 times more people in prison per C then my country, and they spend more on prison to the poor, then free education for everybody would cost.
lol, leave it to the frenchman to get into trouble bc of a food-related utensil that most people in my country (me included) wouldn't even know what specifically to do with ....
greetings from Germany XDD
Even more about emergency services covered by basic insurance - no matter which way you are transported - it can be an ambulance, a helicopter or even a small jet if you have to be taken to a specific hospital - every form of urgent medical transport is covered.
Yep, my father had a heart attack halfway up a Lake District mountain, he was flown 80 miles, free of charge, to the nearest specialist hospital on the other side of the country and operated on within hours, because of this he made a full recovery and survived another 17 years until he was 88.
Hi Charlie,
a bit of background on why some prices like insurance fluctuate so much in these videos is that some of the people featured are students and in many countries students have subsidised special packages.
One big difference across the Atlantic in terms of healthcare is that instead of waiting until the ER is the only place able to help, you should go to your GP for most medical things and they will either be able to treat you or refer you to a specialist.
Just for fun I checked for travel insurance from the US to the EU and they seem to be under €30 max per person per week. If you have the chance to visit Europe it won't be insanely expensive and can cover everyone in case something does go wrong.
just make sure you are not as rowdy as some yanks are ! 😁
If you don't feel well, book a ticket and travel insurance and as soon as you land go to hospital, enjoy your stay and lack of new debts 😂
and also cuz legislation is different in every country.
The difference is that doctors and nurses are concentrating on making you better - not on a pile of insurance paperwork!!!
Yeah, I get the impression in the US a lot of people become doctors to make money, not to help people.
I love the way that lady's dressed as well. She's so pretty.
Also, where I live (France and Germany), if you come across people in a medical emergency, you have to help them as much as you can (at least call an ambulance if you don't have any first aid skills), not doing so is "non-assistance to people in danger" and you will be held accountable, you can't just walk or drive by and do nothing. Whereas I've heard that in the USA, people can sue you because you helped them, e.g. if they have lasting sequellae after treatment, they can go and say: "this guy touched me before the EMTs arrived, it's his fault if I have chronic pain now", for instance, and ask for money in damages... That's crazy, getting sued for potentially saving somebody's life.
You hear a lot of things don't you?🤦
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw considering a person sued Mc Donald’s because when they got their hamburger it was cold went on the news, no matter what you say you can’t fix that idiocy. US is a third world country at this point
I work at a company with offices in Europe and North America. I grew up in Europe and work in the head office in my home country. They needed a few people to train some of the North American offices for a few months, so they polled around a bit to see who would be interested to go, and what kind of arrangement people would be happy with. They got a couple of nice furnished downtown apartments, some lease cars. When asked "what kind of compensation would you be happy with for staying there for 3-6 months?" quite a few colleagues, myself included, answered with a clear and simple "No.".
They finally did manage to scrape 4 people together for the first 3 months. After that all US offices sent their staff over here for the training, and then they would return to train the rest of the staff there. I've been to the US five times between 2004-2018, and saw that place deteriorate rapidly. I am not ever going back there.
From what I see online the US seems to be a country full of political partisans. I don't see that animosity towards opposition parties in any other western country. I sometimes wonder if that behaviour is encouraged so that people end up bickering among themselves, distracting them from looking at the bigger picture. The US could be an amazing country, but that requires all people to come together and demand better from your government, regardless of who is in power. It seems to me that too many politicians are not there to represent the interests of the people, but the interests of lobby groups. This sort of behaviour is not allowed in most governments as it creates a conflict of interest. You need to rip that out of your political system. You will never have serious conversations around healthcare, the environment, gun control etc., until you stop politicians from making money from these lobbyists.
I am Australian: however, I feel Americans really should start thinking about and realizing that social democracy in your people’s minds automatically means communism. In 2024, there are sixteen full democratic socialist countries in the world, including Australia, and others with varying degrees of democratic socialism and they all function as robust democratic countries with a high GDP and GDP per capita. The social democratic parties in all these countries social democratic parties are voted in and out office for decades. It just means that there is balance to the political system. That is why these countries have the social security system like what we have in Australia and other democratic countries, where taxpayers’ money returns it back into assisting all its citizens in the form of health care, unemployment benefits, childcare support & carers benefits. We still function as prosperous developed countries.
the uk does a good triage system, you can wait but you know its because some people are sicker, and yes it is annoying, but we know its about other people
You can wait hours if you have to visit A&E on a Friday or Saturday evening. But it's true, I'd you have to wait you aren't an emergency. Took my daughter one time and, though there were loads of people in front of us, we were seen immediately. Luckily she checked out fine
Hi Charlie, a Brit here, love your reactions, keep ‘em coming………have you seen ‘Know your Ally’, a US army film explaining the UK to soldiers who were being posted to the UK during WW2……excellent film, you’ll cry with pride…………👍🏻😊
It turned in to a whole series post war covering all the allies of the US.
why do they charge because its a Business. why no public transport, because they want to sell cars and insurance, why no free health care, because tyey want to make money to donate to the politicians, merica is about $$$$ thats it if it can be done cheaper more money, its short term profit over long term wealth.
I’m Franco-American & have lived in France now for a long time.. I heard that since Covid, Americans have been rethinking their priorities & how they live. Covid gave them the free time to spend with their family & it was a big eye opener for some..
If everyone pays in, it gets cheaper for everyone..
strange concept for too many americans it seems
I'm French and one time I complained that I've had to pay for my ambulance and I found it expensive. Then I learnt what it cost in the USA and I was dumbfounded.
I had about 40€ to pay that were not covered for like 2 or 3 ambulances that I had to take this year (so yeah less than 50€ for my yearly ambulance needs as a disabled person, something between $45 to $50 in /freedom currency/).
Yes here in New Zealand we are not allowed to carry Pepper spray mostly our police only carry Tasers
I’ve believed you guys are brainwashed at a very young age, to think you live in the greatest country in the world. As a young Aussie I believed that too. I now know that although not completely faultless, I most likely live in the greatest country in the world. Our governments have always done their best to make us feel safe and secure. Although we have a problem with youth crime at the moment, I’m sure it will be solved in the future. ❤Australia
It's called indoctrination.
American Soldiers are heroes.... unless they are homeless and "leeching off the system", or need longtime care, or got messed up from the war situations they have been in, but other than that... heroes. /s
In the most European Countries healthcare ore emergency transports aren’t free at all, but it‘s covered by the healthcare systems… and usually you have to pay for your „Social insurance“, but as your taxes that‘s already detucted from your gross wage… so usually the public sector, the employer and the employee finance the healthcare system. And even if there are some people who don‘t finance their part, the system is currently strong enough to“swallow“ it without getting bancrupt…
It's the most efficient way for a society to pay for healthcare, and nobody has to go bankrupt.
Watched until end, including add's, liked, shared, subscribed. Let's help you get that insurance because of your great content.
Thank you
That girl talking about that gun threat at school and thinking it's normal, is it really that common in the US for that to happen?
I mean, I'm 44 and I've never been threatened with a gun, I don't even know anyone that has been threatened with a gun, so it must be very rare where I live in the UK, and I wouldn't even say the UK is one of the safest countries, at least by modern standards.
It probably explains the security guards at school in the US, which I've never heard of that concept in other countries and there must be there for a reason, likely safety reasons, still, from the outside, it's a bit weird that it's needed at all and suggest there are bigger problems in society that needs addressing.
Even more worrying if you check online you can find that they sell bullet-proof backpacks for your children when they go to school
Close to 350 in 2023 - almost one a day.
I guess it depends a lot on where you live within the US.
In Australia I've never been worried about getting shot, ever, in over 40 years. There were never any guards at my high schools. I've only seen one non-uniformed person carrying a gun in the street. He had a pistol in a shoulder holster under his jacket and he was running down the street. I quickly realised he was a plain clothes cop.
Despite what the NRA and gun nuts would have you believe; we still have guns in Australia. We just have sensible rules and restrictions around owning them, and we don't have a culture that glorifies and condones shooting people.
@@Pushing_Pixels I live in Norway, and I have actually just seen a cop with a gun one time in my country, and he was inside a police station. The cops only carry guns if there is something really crazy going on here in Norway. -like the terrorist attack on Utøya.
The girl who went to Grenada, what a beauty!
I currently rent a house so I only need contents insurance for my furniture etc. I pay £9.00 a month.
In Germany, people tend to complain in the hospital about long waiting times. The thing is: if you have to wait for hours over here that means the only person that is in worse condition than you is the one that couldn't be helped anyway and every other person being served before you are suffering more than you and therefore need help more immediately than you. So: be glad if you have to wait in a german hospital.
It’s the same in the UK, the people with the worst problems get seen first, it doesn’t stop the right wing press whipping up campaigns for privatisation, even though they know that they are distorting the picture.
I've asked this question of dozens of Americans, and I still haven't had a satisfactory answer. Exactly what freedoms do you have in the USA that you think we don't have in the UK or Europe?
Freedom to defend you & your property, which if you can't defend that, then there's no real freedom.
@@Timbothruster-fh3cwwe have no reason to defend ourselves or our property becos nobody has a gun & would come & threaten to take what you have. Violence against violence will not work. Get rid of the money making NRS lobby & your lives will be so much better.
@@Timbothruster-fh3cwfrom what? we can defend our property in the uk with appropriate force, you don’t however have to defend it with a gun because nobody has a gun. No one gets killed either defending themselves or their property but the reality is a decent lock is enough to deter criminals. We don’t live with the fear of criminals attacking our homes with guns because it never happens. Gun crime is extremely rare and more or less limited to drugs gangs shooting each other and about once a decade we have a legal gun owner shooting his family, friends or neighbours (and inevitably himself). You have more accidental gun deaths than we have total murders, we don’t have kids accidentally shooting each other, frightened people shooting their drunk neighbours, people accidentally killing their own family etc. We live in the civilised world.
The girl who wore white and spoke about grenada, the wrap on her head is part of her braids. The ends are white and she has her braids in a top center pony tail with the rest wrapped around like a bun.
Interesting, gee it looked amazing, also her top ❤
you dont need to tell us about skid row, geez.. were sophisticated us brits... its where you keep rick moranis and his crazy cactus thing right
Love your content. Thanks, Charlie.
Regarding 2nd video. His experience is rare. Few hospitals have extra cameras around the bay that enable entry staff to optimize the patient intake process in that manner.
It's just beautiful when a building and the people that run it understand that some very favorable downstream effects don't cost a lot or in the end might even save money for other needs.
There should always be a Second, somebody there who explains along during evaluation what is happening to provide some sense of security through understanding during a tumultuous event. Diagnostic care is a full time attention effort thing, securing the patient's ability to make informed decisions is another full time attention effort thing. (In short, optimize for patient outcome, not profits, f those ghouls.) Not in a robot and soothing lier sort of way, but in a dedicated physician and translator sort of way. That's what patient intake could look like, what the healthcare industry should look like; proper incentives that structure success around downstream long-term savings provided by vigorous commitment to patient outcome, not shareholder profit. Pissing away potential on shortsighted greed is the saddest waste, period.
Hi.lm pleased that you speak English 😂alot of Americans use English words with the wrong meaning 😅im a kiwi 🥝 and I've been living in Amsterdam for 40.years. Americans like.like.like.i have trouble understanding them. And my mother language is English 😅😅😅
What is it with that word “like?”
Especially Gen-Z’ers,their “conversations” are littered with that word…….. ‘I was like,literally,dying when my fake nails,like,fell off”
This world is fucked.
Owh the ambulance thing in the netherlands its free when you need it but if you misused it youll need to pay a few k
Thank you for these, I was complaining about how Belgium and the Netherlands cant manage to get stuff arranged for people living in Be and working on NL but thanks to these im back down on earth like: hey could be worse, I could have been American ...
If you don't pay your debt, doesn't it grow and you get in jail, or kids inherit debt after many years?
We also had jail for debt back in ancient times. And also the possibility to inherit debt from your parents. Not legal practices any more in any developed countries i know of today.
To be clear. The average thai thinks very carefully before going to a private hospital. 300 Dollars in Thailand can be that person's monthly income. That couple in thailand could afford it because they're rich white people working rich white jobs in Thailand.
One informatin about Health care in France. They did something really smart. Every citizen has got a card. Every doctor, every hospital, every clinic, every exam laboratory, has a card reader: when they put you card in their card reader, they can see on they computer ALL your medical history. This way, no matter where you are, if ever met the doctor you're in, or if you go in an hospital when you're in vacation far from your city, they'll know your medical history, allegries, previous tretments, medicine and drugs you are prescrived to take and in what amount. That is genious, brillant... There is something similar in Italy, but far from this efficency... sometimes it requres hours to get the data stored by other hospitals and no way to get datas from random doctors, while in France EVERY doctor MUST HAVE the card reader to read and put the data in or cannot stay in business
And all of this is obviously 100% free
What countries still have siestas? A siesta (from Spanish, pronounced [ˈsjesta] and meaning "nap") is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal.
Unfortunately, many Spaniards today hardly get their forty winks due to various reasons like long job commutes and long office work hours. Nevertheless, siesta is still embraced in other parts of the world like in Greece, Italy, Nigeria, and the Philippines. Siesta is a sacred tradition in Greek culture.
slavery ended, but indentured servitude replaced it. You work because you have to pay off a debt, but it somehow just increases by just being alive
And slavery wasn't completely ended either, merely restricted to prisoners.
@@geordineilson5476 nope, incorrect, slavery is alive still today. And I'm not just talking central Africa, but human trafficking is mostly enslaved women exported for sex industry. These are also slaves as they have no choice in the matter
@@Defhrone I meant from a legal standpoint in the US. The 13th amendment says that slavery is still fine when it's convicted criminal.
@@geordineilson5476 well, I found out that I was wrong, slavery is still alive in parts of Africa and I the western world we tend to call it human trafficking. Illegal, but it still happens
You always say "in big cities" no. Not only, heck rural ares hellholes in the U.S. are often full of crime.
I live in a rural area in the US & I don't think about crime or being shot.
@@Timbothruster-fh3cw judging by your interest in war mongering I expect you are busy thinking about killing foreigners.
The last day of German school before the final exams, when we were supposed to spend the next month or two just learning, there's always a big thing organized by the pupils leaving, which is a celebration for them because last day and for the younger ones due to pranks and school ending early.
When it was my class's turn, there was an active shooter two states over. Killed 17 people, himself included. That news spread like wildfire early on and obviously killed the mood, although I seem to remember (it has been over 20 years^^) that we at least tried to keep up a facade for the youngest kids.
That's the closest I've ever come to a school shooting, and I bet the vast majority of Germans have way, way less than that.
My home insurance is 3 euro per month, my general Insurance (WA) for when you break something from somebooty else.. is about 3 euro per month. Healthcare premium insurance.. 200 euro per month + 380 euro per year for my own risk.
I have seen your face lit up when you saw the lady with the elaborate hair style 😊
And then you told us you love it. 🙂
6:15 Just to clarify, in big German cities you usually have to wait several hours as well. Granted that depends a bit on how sick you are. She may gave been very rural or it was a very quiet night or she was extremely poorly.
There's an old joke here about the American leaving the British hospital and asks where to pay the bill, the nurse replies what bill, this is the civilised world.
Ill make it very simple, I'm from the uk, and i love to travel. Ive been to 36 countries. I dont want to visit the USA, because of all the guns. But even if i did, your government wont let me , because i once got charged with drink driving. (18 years ago). I may be a "threat" to national security! 😂
Freedom, but the HOA will tell you what colour to paint your own front door…..no thanks.
Your 2nd Amendment of the American constitution guarantees the right to bear arm's , which is fact , however , it also states that it should be well regulated it is this part of the 2nd amendment that seems to be overlooked.
And yes we are all slaves to our countries , but it would seem that the majority of " free countries" take good care of the people , but America treats it's people like dog's , and tax the life out of them , if that is freedom then I am glad I don't have to live in fear for my life my loved one's being murdered because your governments greed out weighs the people's safety , that's not freedom that is Anarchy.
Never thought I would comment on someone's appearance (as wrong as you can be) But; the woman at 11:24 takes all prices. Such class... And intelligence
Austria: douze points! 👋
PS: PLEASE do a take on social housing in Vienna! You will love the idea, because of recent events in the US, i promise.
The fear of men is worse in rural areas because women are less likely to be believed reporting an assault because cops know the people in the area and will assume the best of the men.
We look on in awe & amazement when we see you guys lionising people who served in the military. The behaviours you described - thanking people for their service etc. - seems bizarre to many of us. That kind of thing usually only happens in militaristic dictatorships.😂 But, although people do that to the young, fit, unscarred people who do serve; veterans with missing limbs, or incapacitating mental health problems, get treated so badly? Geez, many of them end up homeless! (Now that rarely happens in a militarist dictatorship😄) Is it perhaps that the clean, shiny faces of those who are currently serving, are the faces of strong protection. But those who are brought up against the horrific toll the reality of war/conflicts really takes is something no-one wants to see? What will happen to you if you don't pay it?
I got a little worried when you said you weren't going to pay your medical debt. Can they send in the bailiffs or anything? Or will they just continue to send a bill for a few years and then give up?
At some point the hospital gives up. They then sell the debt to a financial firm that deals in medical debt. They usually pay 20 to 50 cents on the dollar for it, depending on a variety of factors. The financial firm hires a bill collector who will call and harass you for a couple years. Eventually they will give up. If you don't pay your debt, however, you can expect a big hit to your credit score.
Australian here.. Just curious, what actually happens if you don't pay that medical debt?? Is interest added to it? Credit issues? .... Arrested? 😒
Isn't there a minimum wage shorts are there really children homeless snd on the streets in america
your insurance policies are crazy. I just took out a new home insurance and I pay €12 per month
I just have to say, the lady at 11:49 is absolutely stunning. She looks fantastic!
It's not the government's job, sorry kids.
Here in Canada I got t-boned at an intersection. The ambulance came pretty quickly and I was checked out. Though I was basically alright they insisted on taking me to the hospital emergency. I was whisked straight in and was more thoroughly examined. Cost me nothing.
they don't care about you that's the truth
btc. food poisoning in Germany is very rare ...like veeeery rare...also the tap water is always drinking water and has even higher controls than bottled water
Same in Norway. I remember people got sick from chocolate back in the late 80s, and we still make jokes about that brand of chocolate.
We also had some e.coli bacteria in a batch of minced meat back in the 90s, making children sick.
Man i really hope your channel can give you more than the minimum. I'm glad you even made it so far but you and american girl are just so sympathic i hope it will provide you a very good life soon 😊
Agree
In France, emergency rooms are overcrowded, and you can wait up to 12 hours to get treatment, then wait 6 more hours between each exams if your condition is not life threatening. Nonetheless you end up leaving without paying a dime. However, once I got knocked over by a car once and they immediately took me in, scanned me, and 30 minutes later they told me I had only concussion and I was free to leave. When I left the hospital, I felt like one of the character from GTA leaving the hospital after being killed.
Emergency rooms are emergency rooms, you cannot know how much you have to wait, at least you are dying and you don't wait. I'm Italian and I went to ER three times in my life, the first because I tripped and cut my forehead above my eyebrow, the second because I cut a piece of my thumb with a circular saw (breaking the bone). In all the cases they assigned me a yellow code (the second priority level after red), the third because I fell off my bike and hit my head.
The first time, after a couple of hours I was already home with 8 stitches in my head and only because the doctors wanted to keep me under observation for a while, due to the blow to the head. The second I had to wait hours. The third I told the reception what had happened and after 25 seconds they were examining me (that time, however, they hospitalized me for one night as a precations).
In Belgium pepperspray is illegal too. But like the woman in the video I wouldn't know why I would need it. I'm 51 now and from the age of 15 I went out on my own on foot, bus or bike at night and I never felt unsafe, never had anything happen to me.
To clarify about vacation days, I don't know if that is everywhere in Europe, but in Belgium you don't have vacation in the first year you work after finishing school. In my case the first year I worked was in a firm that closed 3 weeks in summer and 1 week between christmas and new year. Workers with vacation time receive vacation pay in this period and because I didn't have the right to vacation pay yet I received temporary unemployment compensation.
In the U.K. Your healthcare is free to everyone but you do pay taxes for this. Not as much as medical insurance.
That girl with the cake on her head was pretty.
Ok, I didn't watch the video I just saw the thumbnail, but what government actually cares about their people?🙄
Take a look at Scandinavia, and lots of Europe in general.
I find the whole thanking military for their service very weird. I actually heard it twice while I was visiting - because lots of stores give discounts to military and veterans - I feel that is creepy.
Yeah I find it weard too and that’s something I would never do personally, why should I thank a murderer? Especially if they go to for example steal oil… no thanks.
@@NaeniaNightingale I wander what they thank them for..? Thank you for stealing another nations value, to feed the richest % in USA..
It is not like the poor people in the streets get any of this stolen goods.
Well said , Food in your belly and a roof over your head , everything else is a bonus
Great vids man, you're open minded and willing to learn and seem a sound dude too. keep the content coming. Subscribed. 👍
Healthcare is not free in the Netherlands but is still cheap
In Germany running an ambulance with medication and people over one year costs about 1 Million Euro.
The payment ist calculated very easily. You just calculate all emergencies, the ambulance had to respond and divied the million (or the current costs) by the number. The next year the service company will get for each emergency call this amount, no matter if it was just a plaster or reanimation, with oxygen and everything.
In big cities one emergency call will cost the health insurance around 400€ and in rural areas, where there are less calls it might even be up to 1000€ per call.
But that's it.
The city or county calculated the costs with the service provider and every insurance will pay this.
And the person in need has to pay 10€.
Just if you called the ambulance and because of a medical reason, they want to bring you to a hospital, but you refuse, the service provider may charge the amount to you, as the health insurance has only to pay for the ambulance, if the abmulance brings you to the hospital.
Veterans... tread them with respect... but don't forget that there are dark secrets. Im German and my Grandmother sufferd horrible by the hands of American Soldiers...