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US normalizes living with terrible food, terrible health care, no labor security and violence. When US citicens come to Europe they have PTSD, like a refugee, and they are not even aware of it. So sad
As someone who has been diagnosed with PTSD as a teen I mean yeah. I literally have had it since I was 5. Never knew until a therapist told me it wasn’t normal. 😅
sad? In a brainwashed world as the USAn it is no wonder that nothing is done about it, especially the lack of health care, for a start. As long as the word socialist/socialism literally stops any serious conversation, you are done.
Yeah, I lived in Europe (France) for a couple of years and I didn't even know how "on guard" you are in the US all the time because of the insane gun violence.
….. and yet they want to vote for Trump and the republicans?????
Best country in the world, am I right? 😂
Fun Fact: I did a test with my American friend(I'm Canadian). We bought monster energy and sodas and some other things that were all the same brands as each other and we looked at the nutrition facts/ingredients in each thing. Every single thing she bought was loaded with more sugar than my version. Same brands and everything. The difference is in that Health Canada regulates heavily what's allowed in food here.
The same is true for the entire EU.
It helps that some places have a sugar tax.
@@Rezuvious We call it the chip tax. A tax on every sugary drink, every chip.
... and let's be honest, as Canadian, we do a half-sassed job of this kind of thing. Health Canada is halfway between incompetent and useless, but they STILL manage to do a better job of informing customers than American health regulators do.
The funny thing is that, in the U.S. they preach "consumer choice", but producers will fight tooth and nail about any sort of packaging that will provide accurate information to allow consumers to make their own decisions, and in the U.S. they will usually win.
@@hosermcmoose What makes you think Health Canada is incompetent? They seem like one of the most competent government organizations we have. They cracked down on COVID pretty hard and got us the free vaccine faster than the vast majority of other countries.
My wife had an excellent health insurance in the US through the university. So she only had to pay 5% of the price of her medicine. Yet that 5% was more than the full price of the very same drug here in Romania.
Also while in the US I was sued by someone for not hitting them with my car. He was on his bike, crossing at a bicycle crossing near the university. Naturally I slammed on the brake. The car on the other lane didn't and hit the poor guy. Half a year later I was sued because by stopping I "assumed responsibility for him". Of course this was a fishing expedition, when they saw that they can't make me angry or to contradict myself or anything like that, they dropped it.
But I have to ask this, because Americans are so proud of their famous rights: where is the right of a peaceful, law abiding person to not be harassed by unscrupulous lawyers and dragged into courtrooms for no good reason???
It's not unlikely it was to get someone to pay those outrageous medical bills, though I obviously don't know the full story.
German from Munich here: Fun fact, you not only will not get sued for helping someone to survive, you can get sued if you do not help at all. It is called "unterlassene Hilffeleistung" so "failure to provide assistance".
' Duty of care ' is the Australian equivalent law. Saving people is expected - protection for yourself or anyone in harms way - if safe. Report crime , injuries and unsafe incidents to make life safer fairer & equal for all.
Yep, duty of care, in Spain: "deber de socorro"
in Poland the same
@@isatundi The crime is called ,omision de socorro, if I am not mistaken?
Little addition to the fun fact, this only applies if it was possible to help without putting yourself in danger. That part is especially relevant with anything around cars or trains.
I'm from europe (Hungary) and i've been in the states with my family as a vacation. We've beein in LA when i heard some V8 noises and large bangs and i tought the local car guys having a fun night but no, next morning while eating just watched the news and it was a shooting a few blocks away.
After that we continued our journey to Vegas. A police officer pulled us over because my father was speeding (he missed the sign) and he nearly got shot because when the Sheriff asked his ID he reached his pocket and we immediately faced a gun. Nothing happened we got a warn but it was shocking for us.
The lesson i learned: the USA is a great place to spend your money, not to live there
*EXACTLY* what I think about America! Been there twice.
That's why I'm even wary to visit the US as a tourist. I don't want to get executed for a simple mistake. In the Netherlands it's pretty when a police car stops you to get out and walk towards the officer, shake hands, they introduce themselves, and you have a conversation about why you were stopped. If a cop asks for identification you go ahead and grab your identification. I don't want to get killed for "seeming threatening" when what I'm doing is perfectly normal in most places.
The woman who had the baby in Ireland really blew my mind the first time I saw these. I mean, here in the States they even charge a fee for you to HOLD YOUR BABY. The charge title is "skin on skin contact." They charged me more than $100 to hold my son for the first freaking time....
I'm glad you didn't cry because you'd be charged for emotional support.
What happens if you refuse to hold the baby? I'm not saying you'd want to because obviously you'd be desperate to hold him, but hypothetically? I mean they've got to let you hold your own baby eventually! At what point does it stop being a chargeable event?
@@cyflym11 Good question. But this is good old America. Chances are they'll charge you for picking him up to take him home in that case LOL
@@cyflym11 They'll probably just throw it on anyway. There's been many reports of bills where items or services that weren't even used get added on. It's insanity and greed.
Yeah I've heard of this particular charge from an American friend of mine. I honestly thought for years that those saying it weren't telling the truth, until she had a baby and showed me the skin on skin contact charge (hers was $120). That absolutely blew my mind. How is that charge even legal?? Like, charges are supposed to be for things _they_ do _for you_ - but you holding your baby to your skin doesn't involve _them_ in any way, shape or form! So they're literally just _stealing_ that hundred dollars from you and somehow it's allowed?!
In Germany its the other way around. If you dont do first aid you will be sued. So no one will look away when you lay on the floor with maybe a heart attack.
In the UK there is the duty of care, which means you can't pass by an emergency.
@@weejackrussell Think it was included under the (different variations of) Good Samaritan laws. You have a legal immunity while performing emergency care and are obligated by law to do said care to the best of your ability.
Yes, exactly. It‘s like that in Switzerland, too. You are, by law, obliged to help in an emergency. You can and will be sued if you walk away (and it‘s found out, ofc). You do have to do your best - as taught in the emergency help course, mandatory for driver‘s license - so if it goes wrong, it goes wrong. At least you tried to help.
In the US too, every country that has signed the Geneva Convention, in the 1950s and all nato members, has that Samaritan Law (or named differently, but it's the same thing) within the country. So, every American has to save people's life when an emergency situation occurs. People who sue because you, a medical professional or simply a citizen, save their lives, their cases will *immediately* be dismissed in court under that Samaritan Law. It's just that in the US, there's this culture of suing over anything and everything. [In America, a lot of people don't even know about that Law, somehow]
@@bobbiusshadow6985 in the US you often need to name someone in a lawsuit for insurance to pay for damages, those lawsuits are meant to be thrown out by the court but you have to name a guilty party, which is how you get people suing their 8yo nefew or themselves or the person who did first aid.
The reason most countries have universal health care is because they have realised that the fence at the top of the cliff is much cheaper than the ambulance at the bottom. Early treatment results in better outcomes for the patient and reduction in transmission of illnesses (such as flu). This is beneficial to the employer and the country as less time is lost through people being off work due to illness or accidents, resulting in less disruption to businesses and increased profits, which in turn is good for the economy.
I wonder if politicians back in the day who would work abroad were told not to say anything about how things worked outside of the US. To keep the people from knowing things like freedom, healthcare, education, workers rights and so on.
I think your old propganda minister, Mister McCarthy did a real good job on that. Joseph Gobbels would mostly be proud on him.
I mean .. come on .. workers rights ? Thats just pure communism. Your are only free when you work 24/7 to make your bosses happy and richer. And if you do that job good you don't even have to sleep in a coal mine but you can sell them your sould so you get a nice tent you can live in on the streets.
Certainly explain a lot
Well back in the day (1930s to 1960s) workers had more power than they do now in America and corporations didn't have massive control over politics.
@@AIHumanEquality But 1960 is 64 years ago now.
This is the modus operandi of the US. It's called propaganda. It's not even that they lie anymore (they do), they simply just don't report the truth.
Charlie, think about what you said in your intro. Then dissect what you said, clearly, analytically, detached. Then you will realize that THIS is YOUR personal "America really messed me up" moment. How can these interviews be seen as funny? They should be seen as shocking and a desperate cry for help from an oppressed and abused population, not as funny. America has caused you to be so brainwashed into accepting these conditions as standard and normal that people discussing their wake-up moments are not really describing laughable situations but dystopian situations. You have my condolences for having to live like that.
What is really amazing that some people are even defending it.
All because their warped brain translates socialism directly to 1950's communism.
And you can blame your cold war propaganda machine for that.
UK resident here I did a first aid course last year and in the uk we have what's called a/the good samaritan law that protects from being sued for performing first aid or cpr on someone because to properly resuscitate someone you will break some ribs because you have to pump the heart which is underneath the ribs and they will be in pain but at least they're alive and ribs will heal which is why we have this law because why punish someone who could potentially save someone's life
The healthcare thing really breaks my heart for you guys. Ours in Aus is excellent as well and whilst it can always get better, it SH1TS on the US. I don't say that to gloat. I really feel sick when I hear about the good people being treated so badly in every way, it seems to me. Come live with us! We will look after you and you'll be healthy and smiling.
The lady in Thailand who said that the ambulance being free "is different" . It seems to me that it's the USA that's different because in the rest of the world there are not large corporations ripping people off who are sick and going through a rough patch.
Yeah, it's definitely not a Thailand thing, it's an US thing.
I broke my leg on holidays in Nigeria, took an ambulance and it was ~10€ for me. With an apology for the cost. Care was great and fast too.
Yes. It's so annoying that Americans think that the way America is is "normal", and the rest of the world is "different", "abnormal", or "unusual".
Just move out of that horror country
to where? with what? they keep us poor and working 80 hrs a week
@@irishpooter if u find a country that can give u work, and u get everything u need ready, most work places will help u with finding a place to live... there's Americans living in many different European countries, that also has a YT channel, talking about what it's like there, and i bet many of them will help u, to understand all there goes into moving from USA to a European country... 2 American couples moved to Denmark, that both have a YT channel, Travelin' Young and Robe Trotting, that u could look up...
I'd rather say "fix your problems and stay home, in a better home!"
You don't even have to go that far. Canada is right there and is a far better country in so many ways.
@@AIHumanEquality they dont take you over 45 and they dont take you if you're working class at all.
From the UK 🇬🇧 the first time I visited my sister in IL I got really sick from the food. After 1 week I burst into tears and asked my sister to take me shopping so that I could buy food that my body wouldn't reject. It was toxic 🤢
This is what is scaring me.
To Explain.
My Mum lives with my bro in a granny flat in New Hampshire. She's been there about 25 years.
In all that time We've seen here about 3 times. (My elder Bro and I chip in for her airfare home as it's cheaper for just her to come back to the UK and she gets to visit all our Rellies !)
However she's now 88 so my Bro and I have decided to go visit her over there this September.
Although we used to live in Western Australia (Forrestfield for West Coast Aussies) in the 70's they at the very least have food as good as the UK and the meat is far superior, I think I've watched too many "Americans try UK food & Snacks" videos.
Even my younger Bro who lives stateside (and my sister who lives in SC) say the food there is utter shyte.
Maybe panicking over nothing but... You never know !!
Hoping to pick up a new guitar.. Not food poisoning !!
From Australia I know people that call American bread lolly bread
Yeah I get it, I want to go to the states but I think I'd lose weight because I'm scared of eating American food because I know what's in it 😊
@Devonshirejackdaw A friend of mine, who has family in the US calls her vacations in the US her "American Diet" because she always looses a few kg's during her visits.😅
You know, a large percentage of the packaged breads sold in the US would fall under the category of cakes in several eu countries@tlihdsnm26947
Minute 3:46 - Vacation time and holiday are two different things. Holidays are fixed days that we don't work but they don't take away days from our vacation time; for example in Italy, 24-25-26 december are "Holiday", we don't go to work and they do not count for vacation time. We have 13 days a year of that type (1 january, easter monday, 25 april, 1 may, 2 june, 15 august, 2 november, 8 december, 24-25-26 december, 31 december, city birthday that depends on the city). If for any reason you have to work on one of these days (like restaurants, pubs and night clubs that organize parties during festivity days), you are paid DOUBLE for that day. If one of these days and up in a "natural day off" (that it's saturday and sunday for most companies, but it can change, for example hair style shops is sunday and monday) you have one additiona paid day in that month for the so called "Holiday not enjoied"
So basically we have 13 paid hoilday days a year and each of these day we cannot enjoy (because we have to work or it ends up in a day we already have off by default) we get and additional paid day in that month
Charlie. I’m diabetic, type 2. My doctor prescribed insulin. When I renew I call my pharmacy, then forward my request to my doctor, the doctor agrees then my insulin is delivered. Because I live in Wales and we have no prescription charges. This includes my insulin, drugs, compression stockings, blood sugar measuring device and remote sensors, and a Phillips Dream CPAP machine to relieve my Obstructive Sleep Apnoea. I know these aren’t free, it comes from my taxes, but there is no payment on collection.
To show you how this culture works in reverse, this happened when I was visiting Seattle from the UK. I was walking down a busy street and a passing car backfired. Everybody in sight either ducked down or hit the deck but me. I just wasn't conditioned by experience to think it was a gunshot.
I think the USA is about the only country that taxes it's citizens who live abroad. Boris Johnson, the former Prime Minister of the British Government, was born in New York because his British parents worked there for a few years. He left the USA aged 4, never to return but still got chased for taxes by the US Government even though he'd never earned a cent there. Isn't this 'taxation without representation'?
I remember there was a small incident in Boston (Massachusetts, USA not Lincolnshire) where a large quantity of tea got ruined over this principle.
Same for me! I was born in California (dad was RAF so my family posted over there for 4 years) moved back to England when I was 4 years old, I am 43 now and STILL get Tax letters from USA! I'm not even duel nationality either, as several years ago renewing my passport, I had to decide if I was An American citizen or a British... obviously I chose British.
That's why American tea tastes like horse piss.
ONE other country does, and it is ERITREA. However they ONLY tax you on 12% of your income and only then after you earn a certain amount and I t hink the tax you pay is only around 10% or something tiny like that.
I'm Polish i work in US corporation in Poland I have some leftover holidays from last year so this year 2024 I have 38 days paid holidays which I'll be forced to use and at least 2 weeks needs to be in the row. :) Europe is GREAT
About organic food in Europe. It is not two or three times as expensive as conventional over here. An organic liter of milk costs 13 kroner in Denmark. Thats 1.88 usd. A normal liter of milk is 10. That's 1.44 usd.
Oh, and also, we have a national standard for when things are allowed to be called organic, so if something has the official red "ø" on it, that means that this product has been checked by our version of the FDA, and found to be produced sufficiently organic to earn the stamp. If something doesnt hold up to scrutiny, it can't be labelled as organic at all.
It extends to checking if the grain that is fed to a cow has been grown on a field where there is pesticides being used on nearby fields, if they want to put organic labelling on a pack of ground beef. Every single step of food production is traceable.
The same goes for whole grain products. If you want to call your cereal or loaf of bread wholegrain, you better be prepared to proove it.
Oke so what does ø stand for? I am Dutch so I can read Danish pretty well, but my guess would be økologisk? I do not think organic is "ørganisk" but I never learned Danish, it just does not sound right haha. Etc. Where does it stand for? Thx!
45 years ago I married an American girl. She was clever and became Dutch like me. So now she has 2 passports.
And if she works in Holland pays taxes in the US as well as Holland.
She is a pensioner now and travels the world. I don't think she is paying taxes.@@marg147
Does she still pay taxes?
I know people who were born in the us (left when they were 4) and after 50 years in NL they got a letter saying they had to pay taxes in the US.
They now have 1 passport.
@@marg147 Surely not if she's a Dutch citizen.
@@petergaskin1811 Oh yes she does, you can be born in the NL but have a US parent and you will STILL be expected to pay taxes to the US even if you've never visited. What's more so can your partner, even business partners can be affected and many banks won't take you as a customer because they are legally obligated to inform the IRS about your bank details and how much you earn.
I totally agree that there is a correlation between highly processed unhealthy food and astronomically expensive health care in the US, how truly horrific and sad.
I'm 62, going closely on 63 by now. I recently went to the hospital for a full checkup, complete with MR scanning, a looking device in my veins and what my blood values were. The LOT. There was a guy there in hospital garp, but it was rather obvious that he didn't understand a word we were saying in Danish. Turned out that he was an American candidate doctor over here to pick up on how we worked here, not only in Denmark, but across Europe.
Since I was being taken through everything in the book, we had a lot of time talking together the 3 of us. So I asked him about his impression of Danish hospitals and told him that I had at one point been a nursing assistent on an orthopedic surgery ward and the acute admittance ward. He filled me in on the similarities between the ways we did things here and in the US and also mentioned a few differences, but overall, the various procedures were just about the same. So he was fairly confident in his stay at the hospital.
Then we sat and talked for a while, waiting for the last results to come in that could be processed on the same day (all except a few of the blood tests).
It has to be said that I look my age in terms of having a bit of a belly and also being a smoker and I am not doing any form of physical training or excersize. And he was aware of this from early on. He was shocked when he saw the list of results. I have veins as clean as those of a newborn baby despite my smoking and not even a hint of any cell transformations or cancer on a scanning. My cardiac values resemble those of a young and physically fit man (120/85 in BP, 54 in pulse when resting, 10 breathing circles per minute resting, and a blow force (MEP) of 124, 21). a blood sugar value of 4, 7 and a normal coagulation speed of the blood. And to top it of, my levels of the various minerals and vitamins and proteines and what not was also within the normal desirable range. With my age and my lifestyle and weight, it simply didn't add up in his experience from the US.
Then I told him that the biggest reason was most likely the vast quantities of sugar and additives and preservation compounds that is put into almost all food in the US, and that we generally eat smaller portions of food per meal than the average American (though often still too much to be actually health improving). For instance, if you go to a McD and orders a small size meal with a small size coke in the US, you are ordering the largest size in Denmark (we don't have the supersize menues). If you order a normal size pizza in a pizzaria in Denmark, you would be ordering a child size pizza in the US. A US family size pizza is not even possible to order in Denmark. You would have to make it yourself from scratch in your own kitchen to get one. If you go to a restaurant and order a steak, the one you would get in the US would fill out the entire dinner plate here in Denmark with no room to spare for even a single potato or carrot or other vegetables.
And that is the biggest health concern in the US though people in the US don't see it that way. Compared to Europe, you have supersized everything, and even supersized the amount of sugar and chemicals in virtually every type of food. There is a reason for the size of your obesity problem and lower average life expectancy.
the reason your food (the amerikan) is what it is has actual resons:
1 its the ceapest method to produce.
2 it has to fit in (taste used for that is mostly sugar and fat/ optic or haptick witch results in lots of cemicals witch are banned in other parts of the world. ) or no one over there will buy it.
End of 2023 I had accrued over 300 hours annual leave and 300 hours of sick leave. I got a call from the head of HR, telling me I HAD to take 4 weeks off over Christmas, no questions asked. I'm Finnish living in Australia.
I'm an American living in Wellington , New Zealand. The ambulances actually have " Free Ambulance" sign written on the side of them.
That's weird, why would they have that?
Only reason to make sence of that is because they also have payed ambulances?
Yea, if you don't live in a free ambulance zone, St John's Ambulance charges $98. Unless you are a subscriber to them. If it's an accident, then ACC covers it.
@@mick0matic They certainly did in the 70s/80s BUT it depended on several things. Free in emergenies but if you called an ambulance - not for an emergency but simply because you were ill - or went to the ambulance station for the same reason you would be charged. From memory it was $50 back in 1984 when I was charged.
Australia goes the other way with Private Ambulance (i.e. Non-state), and these are used as patient transport to/from private facilities, and to provide a first aid presence and response at events.
But why only to/from Private Facilities? Well, private health here is a supplement to the public health service, existing to provide choice of physician and bypass waiting periods that may exist in the public system.
There's a female UA-camr who was living in Australia and was making a bunch of comparison vids. In one she was walking along a retail precinct when she heard a loud bang. When she looked up from the ground, she quickly noticed everybody else was going about their normal business. Embarrassed she got back up off the ground realising it wasn't a gun but a car backfiring.
Oh yes, in Australia, you don't get sued for helping or not helping with CPR etc. When I was doing my 1st Aid training with my fellow roller derby officials, the question came up. We were told it is a world wide UN agreement that if someone is trying to save your life it is (now don't quote me here), considered "in good faith". In good faith, you were trying to save a fellow human being.
Nobody has ever been sued or successfully sued for trying to save someone's life.
Vacation days in most countries are classified as a liability to the company hence them encouraging you to take your vacation in each financial year.
better not tell him what will happen if you got sick on your vacation...
Here in Ireland they have to force my son-in-law to take his holiday time but they will often end up calling him back in - he's a scaffolder and they are in short supply - so he ends up getting his holiday pay PLUS his normal pay for working.
As someone who has their first aid diploma and getting trained as life saver(just below life guard), it's such an insane thought to ask for consent before saving someone. You cant just ask someone who is low-key dying, in need of help or, hell, unconscious if it's ok to save them. There's not even time to ask. You have to act right there and then before its too late because youre there to prevent death.
The CPR thing is crazy. Here in the Netherlands you are obliged, from most employers, to follow a CPR course, wich includes basic bandaging and stuff, and also basic fire extinguishing skills. It saves lives! Oh, and yes, its being paid for. I believe that if you have any moral objections you are not obliged, but I’m not sure. We also have an apparatus called an AED, where you just apply two stickers, and it tells you what to do, so you don’t have to physically perform CPR. Well, its an automatic 10:12 defibrillator, but you can even see them hanging outside of supermarkets. I do believe you have to have some training, but you’ll never be sued when you use one, I’m almost certain. Step number one when someone is in need, is call 911 (112 here in the Netherlands.) Just watching and doing nothing is punishable though.
As far as I can tell the thing with CPR comes back to the USA healthcare system, and the fact that you have a limited number of sick days.
In some cases CPR can lead to bruised or broken ribs.
If during the CPR the person receiving CPR breaks a rib and are not ensured they will be stuck with the bill and the cost of possibly not being able to work for some time.
If they can not afford these costs they have no other option then to sue.
@@edwinsuijkerbuijk5106 You can definitely break a rib, but if I had to choose between that or death?
@@deetgeluid Yeah, but in the US death might be at least life insurance for the family, living, but badly injured might be a starving family with no home. So, some might consider...
Also, it's incredible common to sue in the US and people are crazy entitled, so although they did want to live they might take every opportunity.
In Germany you cannot be sued for trying to rescue someone however you can be sued for not helping. (If there already are people helping, it's okay to not do anything but otherwise you have to call for help at least.)
@@lethfuil oh, insurance. Better than death.
The getting sick from the food was a real thing for me. I spent a couple of month in the US about 10 years ago, and had a headache and just felt generally run down for the first week and a half. Another british expat told me it was likely the corn syrup that was in damn near everything making me feel that way, so from about day 10 or 12 onwards, I only ate meals that I made myself with fresh unprocessed meats and vegetables and only drank water, and then I felt fine for the entire rest of my time there. Downside though, as you mentioned, is that it costs an absolute fortune to eat real food in the US.
American food is hits like a poison if you aren't accustomed to it, and I always advise friends or family visiting the US to avoid foods containing hfcs as much as possible.
So we have health insurance in Switzerland and we do pay for our medical bills - but we still don‘t hand over a debit card upon going to the hospital. They will ask for your insurance card, however. And they will send you or your insurance company the bill.
Not only do companies in some European countries encourage people to take their vacation, they insist. Many times it's the law and they could get in a lot of trouble if their employees don't get their mandatory minimum vacation time. I've heard stories of companies taking peoples work phones and laptops and/or banning them from coming to work to stop them from working.
Same in Canada. When I was in training for a job and even working at a place for a school program they expressly made it clear you will take an hour break every day, there's no maybe.
When I was at Vodafone, if our leave balance got too high we'd have to provide proof of intent to take some/all at some point, take a week or two real soon, or cash a week or two out
The free health care is the difference between socialism and communism. Anything that is socialism is equated to communism in America
I met a couple of people from the states back in February at a week long event. After being home again ALL of them said: "I miss being awake in the morning, not feeling tired, lazy , sick
and what not. I miss the amazing food." They ate a lot more than they usually do and still lost weight. All of them lost weight and gained it back in between 2 weeks. We walked around one day and there was a loud bang all Americans jumped in fear until realising all was good.
depending on the country maternity leave is somewhere between 12-24 months full paid or even up to 3-4 years with reduced salary, and the best part is, maternity leave can be split between mother and father…
Thanks for commenting and adding to the vid! good content thanks :)
Actually, in Germany you are legally obliged to help within your own possibilities:
Section 323c
Failure to render assistance; obstruction of persons rendering assistance
(1) Whoever does not render assistance in the case of an accident or a common danger or emergency although it is necessary and can reasonably be expected under the circumstances, in particular if it is possible without substantial danger to that person and without breaching other important duties, incurs a penalty of imprisonment for a term not exceeding one year or a fine.
(2) Whoever obstructs a person who is rendering or wishes to render assistance to another person in such a situation incurs the same penalty.
"unterlassene Hilffeleistung".
Americans don't benefit from taxes either
In Denmark when you start a new job you get 2 vacation days a month which can be used from the beginning of your second month.
Here in Europe (I don't know in every country) but where I live you have 6 MONTHS of maternity leave, which you can get 2 before and 4 after having the child or all 6 after having the child. Nowadays we also have paternity leave for the father which is about the same time.
Here you are entitled to up to a year, but you don't get paid for all of it. I think it's 39 weeks of statutory maternity pay which is 90% of your wages, as long as you give your employer the proper notice.
When we traveled to the US for a three week holiday, I was so desperate for vegetables by the end of the trip I had a meal in Chinatown in San Francisco where all I ate was a whole plate of Chinese broccoli.
With the CPR thing, if you're doing chest compressions properly there's a decent chance of breaking a person's ribs. If they need treatment for that and need to get insurance to pay for it, the insurance company will most likely tell them that first they have to sue the person that broke their ribs saving their life.
Australia - Good Samaritan laws protect those providing assistance in emergency situations, provided that they behave responsibly and follow any directions by professional first aiders/responders.
And regarding consent - consent must still be obtained before providing aid, however an unconscious or otherwise incapacitated patient is deemed to have provided consent up to the point at which they become capable of making that decision again.
People sue because there's a chance they could win the lawsuit if they have a good enough lawyer so it's more advantageous to take the chance over other countries who'll laugh you out of the court for getting your life saved.
Real Ambulance chasing.
Minute 9:29 - Parental leave. In Italy we have:
- 5 months of 80% paid parental leave. You can choose to stay at home 2 months before the predicted born day and 3 months after or 1 month before and 4 after.
- Additional 30% paid 11 months (shared between father and mother).
- Unlimited child sickness (cerified by your family doctor) 100% paid leave until the child is 3 years old
- 5 days of child sickness 100% paid leave per year when the child is between 3 and 8 years old
I know we have free healthcare in UK, and so even a pregnancy and related stuff is free, of course. However one thing I can never get my head around is that in US there's a 'skin to skin contact' fee for the mother TO HOLD HER OWN BABY!?!?! What the H&ly F8%k is that all about?
If a person actually needs CPR, they literally cannot consent to it because they're fucking dead and not breathing! 🤣
Not every medical procedure is free in Europe (some can be very expensive) and not every company is nice and understanding - but generally speaking, it's sooooo much worse in the US.
I don't quite understand the statement that these "interviews are very funny". I find them the opposite.
I'll just say in advance: Yes, we have a large McDonald's in our hometown (in the Netherlands), but I actually go there very little. I think once every five years at most. It's not my thing, I'm just saying. However, in 2018 in New York, I was on holiday with my family, we thought: Let's do something really American :-) We went to McDonald's. Well we knew that. My wife was sick for three days and my daughters and I had intestinal problems (we had eaten different things). The next few days we had to get used to a) the ridiculously large portions of food and b) that our bodies were not used to all that over-processed food.
5:10 You have to pay for private. If you were really at a private hospital and not a public one (we don’t have many private hospitals), then their emergency services were probably publicly funded.
Looking at the woman getting a new passport in Netherland, where could she obtain US postage stamps there? They are not generally on sale outside the US.
Don't think she means postal stamps, but stamps you sometimes get in a passport in some countries.
@@JacobBax I thought she said 'so they could post it back to her' ?
@@frankmitchell3594Yeah. I think she means postage stamps.
You cannot send a letter from the Netherlands or any other European country using US postage stamps! So I am sure that they wanted Dutch stamps worth the amount of Euros needed to send that letter to the US. It is as easy as that.
@@HerzschreiberYou can if it is the other way around. You buy an envelope in a shop, buy a stamp online (it’s a 9 figure code), write the code in the right upper corner and your address in the middle on the envelope, put the envelope in another envelope where the application for your passport is in. They can use the closed-in envelope to send it back to you. So why isn’t this possible in the US?
Yep the extra tax is a thing for someone from the US who goes to work in another country.
So for example if someone from the US comes here to the UK to take up a job then they have to pay both income tax here in the UK and taxes to the US government too.
It does not, however, work like this in reverse though. So if I as a Brit go and work in the US then I would pay taxes to the US government but NOT to the UK government.
Having watched a few of these videos I've come to the conclusion that the USA is the least civilised country on the planet.
Really appreciate your commenting and explaining about the US, or even about Europe or anything. thank you.👍
Btw it blows my mind you have to think about the pay when e.g. needing an ambulance, I am a nursing student and I could never imagine 🤯 I want my patients to be safe and healthy.
Ambulances do cost in Canada but it's like $20. Maybe $40 if you really need a lot of equipment to keep you stable.
Edit: I should add if you can't afford the fee it is waived anyway.
"I want my patients to be save and health" is just always such a beautiful thing to hear! ❤
I (Bavaria/Germany) once called an ambulance, because a was pretty certain that I was about to have a heart attack. Though I almost didn't call, since I was afraid that it was only a panic attack (which I have sometimes).
It still WAS a panic attack, severe enough though that my heart rate and blood pressure was through the roof. Aaaaand I threw up in the ambulance, all over one of the guys and I started to cry, because I felt so sorry.
He said that as long as I don't have a heart attack and instead be at least somewhat save, I can throw up on him anytime.
I know it wasn't pleasant for him, I know it was just to ease me, but it felt so comforting.
I'm English, and I can't imagine having to think about money when I'm feeling ill. It must be awful. Back in 1906 my grandmother's brother got caught in a thunder storm while hiking and developed pneumonia. The doctor wouldn't visit without being paid. The family were poor and the only way they could rustle up the money was to break into some money he was saving to go to London to watch the local football team play. They told the doctor they had some money, and he came but it was too late. Young Alex died and he was only 16. About that time the unions, the Labour Party and many others began campaigning for better health care, especially for the poor. After World War I, a Welsh man called Aneurin Bevan thought up a scheme based on a miners benefits scheme, but it was not until after the Second World War, in 1948 that the National Health Service law was passed. I was born 3 years later and I am so grateful to have spent all my life with the NHS. If my great uncle Alex had been able to go to hospital, he probably would have lived.
I live in New Zealand, I was born here. Late 2023 I had open heart surgery, 7 day stay in hospital. Zero cost.
Seriously? You pay for ambulance services in the states? I’d probably not even be here if that was the case. The first time I needed an ambulance in Finland first turn up was a fire engine as they are also first responders. They called an ambulance, they called a special doctor to give a special test to see if I needed particular treatment before getting to hospital. I needed initial treatment en route to the hospital. Cost billed: zero. I was hospitalised for about two and half weeks. I was billed a nominal amount (months later, as admin charge - awe tens of euros)
My only significant experience was back in the mid 2000s before the ACA [aka "Obamacare" to some.] Without going into the story my dad ended up taking an ambulance to the local hospital, sitting in the emergency room there for 4 hours until we got sick of them not doing anything & called to get a plane transport for him to a larger city with a better hospital, they flew him there, he had brain surgery, was in the ICU for 4 days, then in the regular part of the hospital for 5 days.
My parents had great insurance through my Mom's union job so we didn't have to worry about in-network or out-of-network stuff for coverage. But, despite that & despite them paying a significant portion of the costs my parents ended up having to pay like $80,000. They are my biological grandparents, but legal parents... so they had money saved up for retirement & stuff but that drained most of it. If I remember right the ambulance bill [in total not all for my parents to pay,] was like $5,000 despite them only having to drive 3.5 miles to pick him up, 5 miles to the hospital, then like 2 miles back to where the ambulance station.
Oh for that 4 hours in the emergency room at the local hospital where they didn't do anything while he was there my parents had to pay them $15,000. Things have gotten a tad better with the ACA [i.e. at least if you have insurance there are annual caps on out-of-pocket expenses you will have... at least for "in-network" costs & depending on the plan even "out-of-network" care.] But, overall it is still absolute sh-t compared to virtually any other country.
In Germany, it is mandatory to help in a medical emergency, otherwise this can be severely punished as failure to render assistance. Every car driver/motorcyclist must attend a first aid course when they get their driver's license. And even if you break a person's ribs while resuscitating them, you can't be convicted for it. Even if you didn't know that resuscitation is unwanted, if you don't have the appropriate document or wristband etc. with you and you are successfully back to life: Tough luck. When I became a first aider at work and did the course (my sixth course at 34, because I regularly refresh first aid voluntarily), the instructor told me how his colleague (ambulance driver) accidentally broke a young lady's rib during resuscitation and punctured her lung. After 20 minutes of fighting, her circulation was stable and she survived! The puncture of the lung wasn't bad, she was in hospital for a week because of it and the rib, well, that certainly hurt too...but again: She was alive!!! The resuscitator found out afterwards that she had reported him and the police dropped the charges immediately.
I'm never likely to visit USA but if I did I would be afraid to help anyone who was injured in case they sued me. I wonder how many lives are lost due to similar fears in others?
WOW......no wonder you guys are so tightly wound........😓
This may seem strange to you, but in the USA, the Food Safety Agency issues an annual list of the most poisonous (chemically, pesticides) vegetables in a given year, with strawberries, spinach and kale at the forefront. We don't have anything like this in Europe because standards and pesticides, fertilizers and growing chemicals are strictly controlled, in the states you can spray strawberries with whatever you want while they are growing.
10:32 The "getting sued for saving someone's life". I assume it comes from the huge price of healthcare. People can't afford to pay the bill, so they sue to either avoid paying the bill, or getting money from the lawsuit to be able to pay the bill...
Serios question though if i as an European would be allergic against corn syrup stuff and then visit the US i couldn't eat anything...or not ???
At that point it would be better to travel somewhere else
In my country (NZ), even as a tourist, if you break a leg skiing, or any other accident, your medical care, imaging, and even your ambulance or helicopter ride and rehab is $0 all covered by a government entity called ACC (Accident Compensation Cooperation). Would be the same if you went missing in the bush. The search operation, the rescue, and your extraction are all free. If you work here in NZ, ACC will cover 80% of wages, while off work due to your injury & rehab. If you injure someone else, ACC covers their expenses, so you can't sue them beyond immediate reparation of costs (you can use slow, expensive civil courts). It's not the perfect scheme, and I have some criticism of how it's managed, but our country would be very different without it. For a start, the fund that funds all this is a $47 billion portfolio, its dividens/earnings all go back into ACC. It's also funded by charging a levy on petrol/diesel, car registration and varies on the work you do. Your boss pays it (about 1.1-1.9% of taxable earnings). You don't. I'm not advocating such a scheme in the US. I don't know much about the US system beyond 'its very expensive and impossible' without adequate insurance. Different size, healthcare models, and legal system. Could something like ACC work in parts or most of the US?
It's must be very freeing to not have to worry about an ability to pay for healthcare.
I liked, commented and subscribed on your video so that you may have work-life balance too. Hugs from Denmark ❤
america..is awful. a student was shot to death at my son's school two days ago. 14 years old. my car was destroyed by a police car vecause of a high speed chase the same day. thenext day a bomb went off across the street from my work...good times
Organic food is really expensive so I hope you're growing your own food.
I got my Swiss Passport by mail from my Consulate in France for free. For the same price I would have to pay in Switzerland 🇨🇭
If I had to work 100 hours per week for years on end I'd kill myself.
I don't mean this as a joke or hyperbole; if I didn't have a life anyway there'd literally be no reason to keep on breathing.
And a little kid on top of that. That's insane, but the lady managed it though. Extremely courageous woman.
Canada gives a year paid maternity leave. Dads and moms can split the leave if they choose. They can have an additional year of unpaid leave if they can afford it
Stop wasting your time with being American, become a Dutch person.
The Netherlands is overcrowded as it is. We don’t need any more people here 😮
Ac. to the "weight" and food: The fries of McDonalds in Europe only have 3 ingredients: Potatoe, Oil, Salt ... in the US it's like 24 or 27 ingredients ... wtf?! o_O And american coke has twice the amount of sugar than it has in Mexico - and Mexico uses a lot more sugar compared to the EU.
Wait... Fries contain more than the potatoes they're made from, the oil they're fried in & the salt they're seasoned with??? 😳
Somehow that just sounds overly... complicated to me? Like, why?!
stuff like food color makes them look nicer?!
@@JohnHazelwood58 Uhhh, I suppose that's their line of thought? I'd rather it be identifiable as the thing it is.
I always find it hilarious when I see restaurants doing a photoshoot of their menu items & someone being there to "paint" the food into a very oversaturated version of what they actually serve! 😅
And it doesn’t stop there, they use chemicals in the food that are banned in EU because they have been proven to cause cancer. And Americans EAT that shit!?
As an Austrian I might add the following to the whole guns and school situation:
Austria has a lot of guns. More guns on average than all but the top 13 US states. With owning a gun being a right for everyone above the age of 18, who is not a felon actively banned from owing weapons.
And still we don't have school-shootings or metal-detectors or (armed) security at schools.
Same in Norway and Switzerland.
Yeah the gun lobby has one thing right and that is that guns don't kill people.
But then they go and give every mentally unstable American a gun if they want it. 😂
I don't get it, to sue for saving life after doing CPR. What did it break in their mind? It is because the need of money to afford hospitals/treatments, but punishing the ones who are doing good deeds, like saving life? Very strange.
Probably because their insurance company refused to cover their medical bills unless they sued first for any damage done to them by CPR givers.
@@petergaskin1811 That would be still sick to force people to sue anyone because of refusing to cover. The people are paying their ass off to the insurance for getting some recover in the case of need. It's like if people are paying in in their savings book whole time and the bank just refuse to pay them out, if they need it and then to have to sue someone else (who was helping them) just to get their savings.
In norway vacation is mandatory
Seeing everyone just terrified of potential shooters is incredibly sad, an entire nation of people are traumatised
I have to wonder why more Americans don't grow their own food. You have a lot more space than us and most houses seem to have some kind of 'yard' area (obviously I'm not counting city people in apartment blocks). In the UK people love their gardens but they grow fruit and vegetables as well as flowers. I'm only renting but I still have apple trees (small espaliers that grow up the fence and don't take up much space) and a plum tree out the back and I grow salad vegetables, strawberries, etc in tubs at home (I also have 3 hens). I could (and have done before) grow a lot more but I also rent a half allotment plot where I normally grow potatoes, tomatoes, beans, rhubarb, onions, raspberries, gooseberries, beetroot, leeks, squashes, sprouts, cabbages, courgettes, sweet peppers, sweetcorn and whatever else I can find space for. It's all healthy and completely organic. Often people with only a small balcony space will grow some tomatoes just so they can have something fresh.
You really don't need much space at all, and even a concrete yard can provide you with healthy food if you are creative. Why are you just accepting that your food is rubbish and there's no alternative? OK you couldn't grow enough to live on but you could still make a huge difference to what you are feeding to your children.
One big reason: laziness
@@NaeniaNightingale
I guess if you have to work 50 or 60 hours a week to make ends meet, i get it that you don't want to work the land in the scarce free hours.
"the can sue you!"
wtf? good samaritan law protects you from any repercussion as long as you clearly tried to help.
Only in Countries or US States that have a law like that.
When I would visit the USA and someone shoots a gun ... I would think it's a firecracker [like they often do in the Netherlands] and I won't duck... Gosh, I would be killed!!
Really? Most of the fireworks fired here sound more like hand grenades! 😂
Yeah, here also, it was just a silly metaphor. @@MLWJ1993
When you hear the gunshot ducking is useless anyway.😂
6:00 What did you have to pay 1000 Euros for? That seems dodgy. It should be free!
It's school insurence you pay school to insure you
You shout out the dutch so had to subscribe. Wanted to react to the anti biotics but i see its covered. The australian thingy is a water boiler. Funny you dont know this
"That's crazy!" No - that's sane. It's the situation in the US that's crazy.
Lmao yeah that dude did need a light in that room 🤣
Yet our British chefs go on about how good the food is in america.
haha the sad look they gave her in germany i understand as dutch aswel, i mean your looking for cover while nothing is whrong what would you expect us how to look? ofcourse we feel sad you experience it as a shootout, i once experienced a guy from africa, he worked with our company outside cut weeds keep all of the green maintained in city, the guy heard a drone fly he duck inside a (berm) dunno english word for it atm. but we was all like wtf you doing? he explained that he experienced whenever he heard a drone it would start to shoot... we all felt sad for the man that he had such a background , and about the food man its no different here in netherlands tbh.. we get alot of packaged/bad food aswel.. wich most cant pay either .. so theres litterly no difference in that. its maybe less but stil enough to get you sick
Huge misconception about universal healthcare in Canada, made by Americans. Most of Canada's healthcare providers are private.
Ditto in Australia - The Health Department will deal with Hospitals and Medical Centres, but clinics/practices are privately run and Medicare is just a way to finance them to provide their services on the government's behalf
On organic food:
a German store did the following experiment, they had a university calculate the real costs of different foods (production, sustainability, etc.) and charged those prices for a couple of foods (clearly marked). While all prices went up, the conventional foods were actually about as expensive as the organic products in the same category. I think regional, in season organic vegetables had the least price difference and the highest rate of (new) buyers.
The clue is in the word "seasonal". If people hadn't come to expect to be able to buy all produce items at any time of the year, food would be nowhere near as expensive. Seasonal foods are cheaper. Doesn't matter whether they are organic or not.
@@petergaskin1811 seasonal foods were always cheaper, but if you take things like sustainability into account as well, organic is also (often) cheaper than conventional products.
So if you take both into account organic and seasonal is the food with the most „real“ price.
As a regular visitor to the USA over thirty years, weight gain was virtually impossible to avoid, even over three or four weeks. Perhaps the fundamental problem here is that the FDA seems to work exclusively in the interest of the food industry, and against the health interests of the population. Most American foods are ineligible for export as they cannot comply with the much more severe restrictions on food production, additives, preservatives and ingredients in force elsewhere in the world. A better and less toxic diet obviously has ramifications for long term health, but this seems not to be a concern for the FDA. About time they had a proper grilling in front of a senate investigative committee, isn't it ? Always down to money in the USA of course, not sure who might have the balls to make a change.
There is a curious food item in Europe that you might find interesting, and nauseating at the same time. Surstromming is tinned and fermented herring and can level a room of strong men in a couple of minutes. There are plenty of UA-cam videos posted by people demonstrating their will to undertake the challenge, please try watching a couple. And yes, I've tried it and truly there are no words ....... Regards and good luck.
I can possibly understand first aid but how do you get consent from a person that needs CPR.
You have to pay US taxes even if you aren't earning money there? That's nuts. I'm a Canadian and lived in the UK for 10 years and didn't pay a cent of Canadian taxes while living abroad.
10:16 The obligation to provide first aid is handled very differently. For example, in Argentina, Denmark, Germany, France or Serbia there is an obligation to provide assistance. Failure to provide necessary and reasonable assistance will result in imprisonment. May 31, 2017
Germany
As long as a person providing first aid provides first aid with due care, he or she is not committing a criminal offense for negligent bodily harm or even negligent homicide.
(1) Anyone who does not provide assistance in the event of an accident or common danger or need, even though this is necessary and reasonable under the circumstances, in particular without considerable risk to themselves and without violating other important obligations, will be punished with a prison sentence of up to one year or a fine .12/29/2023
Failure to provide assistance - What should you do if someone dies? | Attorney Christian Solmecke (With Subs)
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The health care in the US sucks. I literally have not had a proper period since I was 12. Neither of my parents ever got it checked out. I’m 26 (my bday is on the 9 of March) rn and feel as if I’m dying. Anyway it’s too expensive to check it out and I can’t afford insurance. It might be an imuno deficiency because my sister has it as well. She forgot to take her medication and almost died. The doctor at the place my mom went to didn’t do anything to her and had my sister wait in the waiting room on a chair for hours. Did some standard procedures and said they could not do anything. Sent her to the emergency room. They did the same tests and they gave her some antibiotics. Charged like 1000 bucks probably more, even charged for a room that my sister was never in. Along with that My grandma recently fell at Kaiser. It was raining they had no signs or a carpet. She probably broke some ribs however when we tried to sue them they lied and said she needed a wheel chair. She doesn’t and has never used one. It really sucks and seeing this videos makes me realize it. Like I had to drop out of college twice because I can’t afford it and my families poor. Any way sorry for the rant. Feel free to ignore this. 😅😊
I think the reason why you can be sued while performing CPR is , when it does not workout as it should be the family can put the blame on that person and demand loads of dollars... Even if the CPR was done correctly and the person died anyway... THEY WANT TO SEE COMPENSATION........( The greedy bastards.. my opinion) SAD SAD SAD
Lol! People from United States realize for the first time in 2024 their country sucks!!! 😅😅😅
Annual, sick, and long service leave in Australia accrues as you go. ie/ 5 weeks annual leave each year - you accrues 2ish days of annual leave for every 5 days you work. Same with sick leave. It even accrues when you are on leave! So you can't just start a new job and take two weeks off straight away, but you can start using what you've accrued if you need to. It's usual for people to work 6 months, then take a week or two off. You can work longer and accrue more but most companies won't let you accrue more than 4 or 5 weeks unless you are saving it for good reason (ie/ a longer overseas trip). This is because you will need more time off if you are overworked - burnout, stress etc. If you resign, you get paid out any accrued annual leave, but not your sick leave. They want you to be able to take sick leave if you are sick because they don't want it spread to everyone else, and also, if you come to work unwell you are less likely to be productive or function as well.
this may be an ignorant question but what can the us government actually do about it if you dont pay them taxes when you live out of the country?
Here's a story and question from a non-American: I'm in Australia, and I was driving alone on a country road at night. I came around a corner, there was a black cow in the middle of the road, I lost control trying to go around it and ended up going head-first into a tree. Lucky to be alive. There was very patchy phone reception, but I got through to emergency and told them roughly where I was, and eventually an ambulance arrives. They check me out, say you're going to hospital (I had concussion, a broken nose, and internal bruising) and take me away. The trip was a bit over 25 miles, each way from the nearest country town with a hospital.
The hospital was tiny, had only one nurse there because it was after midnight and they had no other patients, but brought in an on-call doctor and radiologist to x-ray me and check me over. It wasn't great but they made sure I was okay and discharged me the following morning. Several weeks later I get the bill for the ambulance, and it's a bit over $800, for a 50-mile round trip (I'm converting from metric, so it's not exact, but part of the charge was per kilometre). Because I was unemployed at the time, they waived the fee, so neither the hospital nor the ambulance cost me anything. Leaving aside the hospital, how much would that ambulance trip cost in the U.S.?
Even in the UK, medical costs (including ambulances) are chargeable in the case of Road Traffic Accidents. We never see the charges because they are always picked up by our motor insurers.
when my industrial first aid certificate was still valid, it would have been an indictable offense with a 'maximum' penalty of 5 years in prison if convicted, for me to FAIL TO RENDER FIRST AID ASSISTANCE in the case of an injured or medically distressed person within my immediate scope of potential awareness, and continuing to do so until emergency medical responders arrive. voluntary impediments such as wearing earphones would not be a legal defense. this is in canada.
ps: 'organic food' in america is overpriced to discourage buying it. same here in canada because we have to float in your wake far too often, so we get the slime of american greed on us frequently.
How to know if you've wrapped your head around these "messed you up" videos: You come to understand, as painful and disorienting and confusing and frustrating as the truth is... that it's not Netherlands/Sweden/Germany/Australia/Canada/Italy/etc, etc, etc that is "so strange how they do things!" It's the USA that is the strange, bizarre, almost senseless place. It's the rest of the world that is "normal" (with relatively small variations place to place).
It's not EASY to accept, but The Truth Will Set You Free!
A lot of the time in America lawsuits against people rendering aid are a matter of necessity. After performing CPR there's going to be an ambulance, then a trip to the emergency room in whichever hospotal is closest, they're not going to check which hospital is in network for your insurance provider if you're bleeding out. All expensive stuff you wouldn't need to pay if you weren't alive. So your insurance won't help you if you can even afford it in the first place, you're in medical debt and unable to work while recovering, you lose your rental and won't be able to get back on your feet for years all for having the nerve to not be able to breathe underwater. But you broke a rib during the CPR, maybe you have a case against the person who saved you. That's the last thing you want to do but you're in an impossible situation. Now these lawsuits are only if certain criteria are met, like if the person was untrained, was ignoring signs of life or performed it too aggressively resulting in injury.
Now imagine you don't have to pay anything for healthcare and you're entitled to paid medical leave. There's no reason to sue. Lawsuits like this have nothing to do with entitlement or letigiousness in American people but are a result of the absolutely backwards and ineffectual nature of American healthcare.
Germany, you can get up to 23 Month of paternity leave, reduced hight 50percent of normal patermaty leave payment but still 23 Month with your child