WHAT REALLY SUCKS IN FINLAND | About Ideological Blindness
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- Опубліковано 23 лис 2023
- Nope, it's not our eastern neighbour, but a thing which they also know! I have mentioned all these things already before, but never explained them deeper. Math is a thing that never fails! I don’t care how people want to live - the problem is that they want to force everyone to live like that 😬
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"Socialism: The Failed Idea That Never Dies": www.forbes.com/sites/rainerzi...
Per capita health expenditure in selected countries in 2022: www.statista.com/statistics/2...
Thank you for sharing, this is very helpful.
Glad I could help! You often hear only the positive aspects - I think it’s good to be prepared for some other things as well 😅 !
Thank you for your video. I think it's a good perspective about the public health care system, however doesn't apply to most people. Practically all finns who are employed visit a private health care operator provided by their employer like Mehiläinen or Aava or Terveystalo etc., where they can get a time for the same day and everything is available online too and you get your preferred doctor and everything is in great quality and so on. The people using the public health care are then of course mostly the elderly, the youth and so on. Not a lot of people in Finland really praise the public side, but the one for working people is very good and reliable. This was just I think a good added value context to the issue. Ps. Never in my life have I heard anyone going to Russia for a doctor, if you've really heard of such a case, that is beyond extremely rare exception. Regardless, good video. 🙂
Very good point! Although as far as I know even if it is compulsory for the employer, they can also arrange it through the health centre (especially in the smaller towns where there are no Mehiläinen etc.) and there you once again don't have all those benefits. But it's ofc up to you where you live, that's at least something you can decide for yourself. And yep, Russia has obviously been just one case I've heard but it sounds so unbelievable that I had to mention it! 😄 Poland and Germany are very popular countries to go. Thanks for commenting and explaining, this is definitely a good information for people thinking about moving to Finland! 😊
I couldn't agree you more
One thing I did not expect from Finland is that at the workplace is allowed to shout at an employee, and if a colleague gets angry and shouts, you can not say "That is not the right thing to do" because it will shout more, you can not complaint because no manager wants to take the responsibility to tell that is wrong and there is no working law that you can have to be supported, is just wrong. The medical care is very expensive here in Kuopio and you need to tell everything to the nurse first and if the nurse is up to it, you can go to the doctor, I am just so disappointed.
I guess something like that can happen everywhere, but the Finnish medical care is definitely in a league of its own - in a negative sense 🤦♀ !
That is simply not true. We have a robust worker protection system in FInland. If you boss is shouting at you and you have proof, you can report them to the worker protection agencies and they will be reprimanded and even fined if they keep on doing it. Know your rights.
There actually is an option to book a time with a doctor electronically at Varha eTerveyspalvelut, but the down side is, they have not yet made an English version of their site. The thing that surprised me however, was that It's currently available only in Finnish and Swedish, which is strange, as OmaKanta is also in English. That is the National Healthcare Database, where you can see all your health data, that you have either transferred or accrued while living in Finland and used the health care system (at least for Finnish citizens). Still, you can't choose your own doctor in Finland by default, but you do have the right to ask for a specific doctor by name or another doctor, if you deem the one taking care of you has not been suitable for some reason. If you wish to see a specific doctor though, then you do need to take into account, that they have a busy schedule and meeting them may take much longer than taking the first available time. At least, this was my experience at the Helsinki Metropolitan area.
The reason why it takes so long to get a non-acute doctors appointment, is that Finland has a severe lac in doctors - or at least public doctors. It is still hard to say how to ensure what happened in the US and many other countries wouldn't happen in Finland also, if the health care system was privatized completely, as it would not make it cheaper by default. - as was seen in the Taxi law reformation few years back, as right wing politicians promised that it will bring prices down and make traveling by Taxi better in every way, the opposite happened and Taxi has become much more unreliable and a tad costlier than before. But I do agree that the current system needs to be fixed as soon as possible, so that people can really get treatment faster, like they used to years ago.
In Austria you also have to wait a bit for an appointment with a specialist if it's not that urgent (e.g. I had some weird skin issues and called a dermatologist and got an appointment 3 weeks ahead (it was a public dermatologist, meaning I didn't pay anything since I paid already a compulsory health insurance)) - but yet it was always so nice to know that no matter what, the doctors are really trying to help you. There are just way too many young people in Finland who are getting very ill because the doctors don't take them serious - and how could they, they don't have time (or motivation - for what?) for that. But like I said, the other side - doctors working more for themselves and "earning" their patients is something what the Finns can't imagine, because here it has been like this (only health centers) at least 50 years I guess. For Austrians it's more than normal that you can even drive to another city if you look from the online reviews that there's a good specialist - or you can also choose your home doctor there if you want, who cares, it's your life.
As far as I know the taxi law reformation was pushed through a bit too fast and not very well prepared. Thanks for taking the time for such a long and explanatory comment, maybe we'll see some change ... I would say after about 20 years when this socialistic utopia is finally collapsing 😄