I think you’re misunderstanding the social support concept. The idea in countries with well-established social support is not “helping the homeless,” but preventing people from getting to the point that they become homeless. It encompasses a spectrum of lifestyle safety net systems - free healthcare helps you stay healthy and able to work properly, paid vacation days so you can maintain a healthy work-life balance and spend time with your family, unemployment benefits for when you suddenly find yourself out of a job, childcare allowance to help you provide for your kids’ basic necessities, free education so you can send kids to school and prepare them for work in the future without going broke, and so many other social support programs. Instead of looking at it as “people let themselves become homeless and still the government helps,” think of it as helping people not become homeless. That’s why countries with these systems also have very low or decreasing rate of homelessness. Although, often they do also have programs designed to help the homeless get back on their feet when the worst happens. But those don’t cost the government much since there are far fewer homeless people than in the US.
@@HailHeidi its also not fair for americans. Becose its no like "oh its his fault, his probably drunk, junkie, or gambler. He has what he deserve." Lots of homeless in america end up in the street becose healthcare or other insurance, or ret-ard lawsuit. There is probably more PHD's in card box hauses in alleys than in universities.
Maybe the government make sure that people believe that the homeless are addicted to something. So people think it's their own fault and not actually the way the government is screwing Americans over. I live in Norway, have seen alot of videos with people saying that they are homeless because they got cancer or lost their job and alot of different things that would not happen most other places in the world. Pretty much every American can end up in that situasjon. That is so sad. When people talk about the American dream i think I'm happy i don't live there, i am so lucky to be born where i am.
Yes, for example in Norway the only way someone actually becomes homeless is if they actively refused/ignored all of the social safety nets. If you for whatever reason can't afford to rent the state will help you and in some cases like single mothers can actually get a home loan assistance to buy some very modest apartment or house. The higher quality of life the kids have the better they will eventually contribute to society later in life. Helping people avoid abject poverty isn't about keeping them barely hovering above some arbitrary threshold of 'not impoverished' its about making an investment in the future instead of doing the bare minimum.
@@Sindrijo same in Japan! The homeless are the ones who refuse help. They don’t panhandle either, so if you try to give them money or any kind of help they get insulted and snub you. ☹️
When I lived in New York for awhile 99 percent of the homeless people I talked to said that they were on the streets because they became sick or had an accident then lost their job, couldn't cope with the medical bills and then lost their house. It just made me cry. Only one said it was because of drugs and he was a veteran who couldn't cope with the things he had seen yet no one cared and he didn't get help. It's easy to think "oh they caused this to themselves" until you are in the situation yourself and realize there was nothing I could've done. Scary how society doesn't care.
Yes, because they don't have to spend money on things like modern military infratructures thanks to the U.S. shoring them up. Source: I did it for 12 years
@@savevsdeath i don't mean to be insulting but do you realy belive the world and other countrys are working because of you americans ? dude seriously get over yourself its ridiculous... we have 27 different countrys and cultures in europe and they are working perfectly fine without the US , shit every single one of them have a culture and history before the US was even discoverd by europeans xd. Btw some of the european country are biggest weapon dealer in the world they didnt wait for you xd
@@savevsdeath Bla bla bla, US is such a saint, they protect Europe so we Europeans can live happy and worry free, while their own citizens go homeless. Yeah, right, that's all, there is nothing else to this story. Yeah.
*gasp* That's un-American! Greed is good. Yes, the USA is set up to benefit the 2% at the expense of everyone else... but that's the way things should be. Keep your socialist 'sense of community', safe streets, and respect for human rights. America, home of the brainwashed, land of the ignorant, has consumers, not citizens. Woo-hoo! Best country on Earth! *facepalm*
I LITERALLY had this discussion with my sister 20 minutes ago. In the UK they are being really nasty to some asylum seekers to appeal to the racist right wing. My sister said "its horrible the way they are treating these people" I pointed out "ITS NOT "these people, its YOU. If they will treat asylum seekers like they, they will treat YOU like that when the time comes"
As a Australian. In the U.S. as a tourist I nearly got shot and other people were threatened to be killed. I just could not believe how bad the U.S. was. Americans say we are the freest country in the World 🌎. After travelling a lot in my 62 years of life . I put the U.S. at the very bottom for freedom. U.S. was the only country I did not feel safe in!!
Totally! I pretty much would walk around anywhere here in the UK and pretty much anywhere in Europe. Living in the States was the only time I didn’t feel able to go wherever I wanted. It was anything but free. I actually drove along a country road over there, I realised I was going the wrong way and decided to back into someone’s driveway so I could turn around and go the other way- something I would do here without even thinking - I backed in and waited for the road to clear. In those few seconds the house owner appeared on his porch WITH A SHOTGUN!!
Actually, the US came in 15th in the 2021 Global Freedom Index. A slight improvement from 21st under the previous "regime". Switzerland and NZ were first and second with Australia coming in at number 8. I imagine the "land of the free" will drop significantly for the 2023 report with the recent changes to bodily autonomy laws there. A really scary country for sure.
The US actually is pretty much at the bottom of the league when it comes to safety. The last time I checked it was about 15 from the bottom. When challenged on this the response tends to be along the lines of 'shootings are mostly in deprived, high crime areas'. I'm willing bet you weren't in such a place. A paranoid, armed population isn't good!
It sounds absolutely awful but Australia should be thankful for Port Arthur Massacre because that brought on the strict gun laws you have today and if that hadn't happened you'd be in the same boat as the 'muricans and many times more would be dead over time by now. A tragedy you learned from, that is how a proper nation works.
as a Frenchman, I realize the problems you have with your health. I hear a lot of people around me complaining about "paying too much taxes"! this tends to annoy me. They don't realize we are paying taxes for this! and the same goes for school! studies are completely free in France!... I'm a little ashamed for them, because they don't realize how lucky we are
I think it's a difference of perspective. As a Norwegian I pay my taxes to the state but in my mind, we the people are the state. I'm paying taxes to myself to better the life of myself and others. Out of that deal I've gotten "free" education, "free" healthcare, a good public transport network, etc, etc. I guess I too would be peeved to pay taxes if I saw nothing good in return.
@@slashdotism Ever since I learned anything about politics I've learned that Americans are pathologically obsessed with "undeserving." That it's worth depriving 1,000 "deserving" people just so that 1 "undeserving" person can't get a single free thing. Our need to actively *harm* someone we see as "lazy" or "undeserving" drives a LOT of our Conservative policy. The belief that government assistance that actually works (like yours) will destroy people's motivation to be productive has religious significance over here. Desperation as a motivator for purpose is an unspoken but sacred belief here and it's killing us.
French here too, I agree with you but not at all at the same time. When people complein about paying too much taxes, we don't talk about the health or studies relate things. We talk about the taxes going into politicians and big companies pockets. And it's not lucky either, we fought and continue to fight for it : as the backlash on retirement reform suggests.
My wife had cancer two times 15 and 10 years ago, both times the whole program - surgery, chemo, radiation. I was diagnosed with one of the few remaining uncurable cancers 7 years ago, which resulted, among a lot of other things, in a stem cell transplant, and I had to spent nearly a whole year in hospitals. Due to that, we both can't work anymore and are on disability pensions. In the USA we surely won't now be sitting in our own house living a modestly comfortable life, as we can do here in Germany.
Not all homeless people are drug addicts and drunks. A lot of people are escaping from bad situations, and if the street is better than their homelife it shows how bad their situation was. Sometimes kids are just thrown out of their homes. This is not a simple situation.
I was homeless for several months starting at the end of 2018. Not an alcoholic or a drug user. Due to unrelated medical issues I lost my previous job (working for a UK bank.) In hindsight I did have a mental health crisis that prevented me from taking the necessary (simple) actions needed to head off becoming homeless. I lived in a homeless shelter in Salford over Christmas, and pretty plainly the vast majority of residents there had some kind of problems that they could not overcome without help, a minority of which were addiction related. Fortunately I live in a civilised country, and local council workers helped me get rehoused while the DWP hooked me up with a private company that worked with me on retraining and rebuilding my confidence. I eventually got a well paying full time job, but I am glad that this didn't happen in the US. My impression is that I would have been written off at an early stage.
@@michaelnolan6951 Well done for being able to turn yourself around. I have nothing but admiration for you. I agree it is probably a different story in the US. They think our welfare, social state is comunism and are scared stiff by it. They don't appear to have compassion for their less fortunate fellow Americans.
When you're sick, you're sick, not lazy. It's just totally mind blowing to see the concept of planned sick leave. It's like the companies are accusing their workers of not being actually sick, but to pretend being sick to get a work day off. Well, that's what paid leave is for, not sick leave.
Exactly. I think the reason why people claim "sick" days so often here is because we don't feel like we have access to or have enough vacation days. People need breaks! 💜
@@HailHeidi some people in europe use sickdays even when they feel lazy. I was like oh crap I gamed all night long, let§s take a sick leave with reason of diarhea, for those often you don't even need a doctors approval about you being sick. One of my friends visits her parents for a week, tells the doctor that she does not feel well and takes a week sickleave. if you get pregnant you can take 3 years of parental leave that is paid and company is by law enforced to not to fire you. If company figures out you are pregnant before you go take the leave, they can fire you, which is often the case in small companies with ignorant bosses. it sounds nice, but on the other hand companies loose money since sickleave is a paid leave. and especially for young women planning to have children its harder to find a job due to the 3 year parental leave. Oh and... vacations are in some companies paid with a better hourly rate, it happened to me once I went to a week long vacation and my payout was bigger :D
One of my biggest culture shocks when I lived in the US was one time I was sick, went to the doctor, the pharmacy, came back to the office to say I was going home for the day and would call the next day in case I wasn't feeling better... and I was asked if I was taking my work home.
Germany here Some time ago, after we had the news of anther school shooting in the USA, i stumbled over a comment that i think the governor of that state made that went like "see ? if the teachers would have had guns, they could have stopped the shooter !" First i was laughing because i thought it was satire. Then i realized it wasn't and i remembered my school days and thought "yea great idea if American school kids are anything like ours they wont have to worry about someone walking into a school to shoot up the kids, the teachers would have done that already" In the USA the answer to problems with guns always seems to be "more guns!"
American on the outside (Japan) looking in here. The argument about arming teachers or having more guns make zero sense to me. The final nail in the coffin about those arguments came after the Uvalde, Texas shooting. There were police and SWAT (military-like intervention) guys in the school and outside the school. They were well-armed themselves, but never went in to deal with the shooter until after 21 people (mostly children) had been killed. If the police and these heavily-armed SWAT guys aren't willing to take out a single shooter, what difference is a teacher with a handgun going to make?
@@michaelm.1947 Not to mention, if the shooter only has a single clip or two and managed to get to the teachers guns .. more victims. Or he goes for the gun cabinet(that surely wont be securely locked, because how can they access guns fast then) he would have even more guns and ammunition. And schools would now also be a target for gangs trying to get more guns and ammunition. Its just dumb xD
It's seen as a "good person vs. bad person" situation here, mostly. The peaceful route--better mental health services, less aggressive socializing of children, reduced stress environment--is a massive, longterm, and very expensive maintenance issue to the "more guns" politicians, many of whom accept campaign contributions from very wealthy industrial powers who don't want to pay those taxes. "Killing the crazy with his own sword" is seen as a cheap and heroic solution to a problem. Also, recently some "more guns" politicians rejected legislation that would have approved mental health evaluations in public schools. They claimed it was an infringement on parental rights (as well as a "socialist" program) but people suspect that public school psych evaluations would make it easier to detect physical and sexual abuse in students BY their parents, most of whom vote for "more guns" politicians.
Approximately 10 years ago an American policeman and his wife were visiting Alberta during the annual Calgary Stampede. While walking on a pathway in a city park, the couple encountered two young men coming in the opposite direction. When they were closer, one of the young men greeted them and asked if they were going to 'the Stampede'. The couple said that they were not and quickly kept walking. Once back in America, for some unknown reason the policeman went on social media to say that if he had been allowed to have his service revolver with him in Canada he would have pulled it out and possibly shot one or both of those young men for 'assaulting' he and his wife. Further, the cop went on to say that he felt unsafe under those circumstances and that he was glad to be back in America where he could 'defend himself'. Canadians just shook their heads.
Just as well for those two friendly individuals the cop couldn’t have his service revolver on him, or they would have been murdered by that paranoid yank who would have been arrested and charged. That’s how having guns everywhere has affected them mentally.
Very fortunate for those two friends that the cop was not allowed to bring his precious gun with him. That just proves how the gun culture has conditioned them mentally in the USA.
I'm American and I say that that policeman is an idiot. I'm sure there are people from other countries that have said stupid things like this and posted it for all the world to see.
The scary part is that many of those who's homeless have ended up on the streets because they went bankrupt because of medical bills.... Universal healthcare doesn't make people go bankrupt because of such bills....
And yet countries with universal healthcare does have people that file bankruptcy, some of which are going bankrupt due to medical bills. So I am going to say FAIL. I would agree that generally speaking universal healthcare does not have nearly as many people going bankrupt, but to say it doesn't make any people is simply false.
@@kevinfisher1345 l don't even want to know who's told you that lie. No one, l repeat NO ONE file for bankruptcy due to medical bills in the modern civilized world... That's not even possible, because we DON'T get bills....
@@stigandrmyrardalur5208 It is not a lie mate unless the AU govt is lying and the AU news is lying and Australian citizens are lying. This as per the AU news (on several instances over the last decade) from actual people that had done so. It is also as per APH (Australian Parliament House) and ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission). Both of which are AU government departments. And that is only one country, there are plenty more. Per APH there are roughly 20k filed bankruptcy claims per year. And the number 4 reason is due to Ill Health which (this varies per year, but) is roughly about 11% of claims. Or in other words around 2.2k. But this is also supported by ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics). So yes mate all of those people and AU departments are lying. I wonder which one I am going to believe. Actual people and AU itself or some unknown person on YT. I personally did NOT file for bankruptcy, I simply never paid my medical debt. IF push came to shove though, I would have filed bankruptcy due to unable to pay my medical bills. Guess I am now a liar as well, Smh!
Madonna brought a country estate in the UK and it had a public footpath that ran through her property and she went to court to try and stop people walking through her land well she lost the case to say she wasn't happy is a understatement lol
@@KillberZomL4D42494 Our maybe she was just worried about crazed fans assaulting her or getting souvenirs from here property. Whatever the case, she should have known about the public footpath before she bought it and decided whether she could live with it.
I’m 28 now born and lived in the UK my entire life. It literally blows my mind that free healthcare isn’t something that happens all around the world, I couldn’t even imagine having to pay money for my right to survive as a human being. The way I see it in America is that the rich have a choice whether to live and the poor have no choice but to die. So much for the American FREEEEDOMMM….
@@savevsdeath no it isn’t ‘free’ but we all accept as citizens that healthcare is necessary at some point in everybody’s life. And if we all pay a little tax in which we barely see out of our paycheck as a collective we are all covered for any health scenario in life no matter the seriousness of it. Seems like a fair deal to me.
@@bizzryt6427 I wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for the NHS, spent 6 weeks at the start year in hospital and will be getting treatment every month for at least a year. Looking quickly at roundabout costs in America it would be in the region of over half a million $. So the little bit of taxes taken from my wages each month is money dam well spent.
I am currently living in the UK for my Masters, and the police came to the school during orientation to explain things to the international students. I think me, and one other person is here. They said that you aren't allowed to have pepper spray here, too! It's a good thing I researched and left mine at home. I honestly feel so much safer here than I do back in the US. The programme leader of my creative writing and publishing MA is also from America and he said he does the same thing I do. Apologize for the US. They are so welcoming here. I am also not afraid to say my spiritual beliefs, because this school is pretty much saying "don't be afraid to practice your spiritual beliefs. We all get along here." I cried when I found out a Christian vicar was encouraging me to join the school's Pagan society. I belong here.
What's honestly worrying to me as a non-American is how many of these are people getting PTSD triggers from loud bangs like they're a soldier coming home from war.
It’s just so ingrained in us growing up in school after columbine we had shooter drills in school at least once a year sometimes more. You turn off the lights be as quiet as possible and crowd together in a corner away from the windows so the shooter doesnt know if the classroom is occupied or not we dont think about it we just start looking where to take cover. Look at the video of the shooting on the NYC subway from a few days ago everyone did not run to the next subway car they just took cover instinctively until they could finally run at the next station.
We had a visiting American grad student at university, young Republican, out of a well-off family, but from laidback California -- at one point he got his finger caught in a door, crushed finger tip, nail split, lots of bleeding. It tooks us 1½ hour to pursuade him to just go to the emergency room -- yet despite automatically having full coverage from the Danish health care services, he still did not want to go... was outright terrified, darting eyes, clammy sweat... because he was afraid of the "death panels". We literally had to go with him two people, sit with him all the way through, just to make him feel sure he wasn't gonna get some sedative to be carted off and have his organs harvested. Need I say, there are no death panels? And the hospital was literally the building right next door, so close you had to lean over to the window to see the roof. Just nuts that Americans have to live in such a state of fear, even terror I would say. That's not freedom to me. ✌😕
well, if he's a Republican, that explains everything. News stations in the US are not required by law to have factual reporting, so Fox News, the big Republican news channel, will literally make things up about how the things they ideologically oppose work - such as universal healthcare. Fox News literally tells people that countries with universal healthcare have "death panels" that decide whether people live or die, like something out of a scifi dystopia. Because if the government gets involved in healthcare, that means they will get involved in who lives or dies and they will have your life in their hands and that's how you lose your FREEDOM. This is what the free market protects you from! they had a weirdass clip about old people being pushed off of cliffs as well, which according to them was an actual thing that free healthcare leads to, bc these people are too expensive to care for or something
@@ladynym89 Americans think when they go to a foreigne country they will get kidnapped or someone will kill them and steal their organs, (death pannel would be a place they harvest your organs) just shows how dumb and closed minded they really are.
I'm British, so 7 euros for an ambulance seems expensive to me. I just spent two months in hospital, had groundbreaking surgery to save my foot and didn't have to pay anything. I now have to go to outpatient appointments three times a week. Transport in an ambulance is free.
7 euros? So is it like 100 USD per 1 Euro exchange rate? I forget what it is, but we even have to pay if paramedic show up, but don't need to transport us to the hospital.
@@Rated314 Sadly it's 1.05 USD per 1 EUR, so even if we had dollars too, the US would still be paying hundreds or thousands of times more than Europeans. During the period of 2019/20 I had two ER visits, a stomach pumping procedure, IV painkillers, four or five blood exams, and two ultrasounds at a private clinic. Our Health Ministry website shows you how much in taxes it costed to take care of me. The total was about 87 euro, or a little less than 90 USD. I can never understand people who say, "yeah but it's not free, it's paid by taxes", as if we didn't know how money works.
One thing I've noticed about us Americans is that we'll go to work sick (because hey- work requires WORK and can't be taking time off, y'know!), but here in Japanland, it's just the socially correct thing to do to *not* come to work because you'll spread the sickness to everyone else. And it's from that mindset that a lot of people wear masks (Covid-19 just expanded mask usage, so there was no push against using them) when they have the sniffles or allergies so they don't spread anything to anyone else if they sneeze. US: Masks = Taking my freedumbs!! Japan: Masks = Taking the people around you into consideration The US has taken the individualistic notion a few ratchets too far. I think the loss of community spirit and notion of togetherness is being/has been lost and that's why there's no empathy towards others (Can't afford it? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps; On drugs? Stop buying them!). Everything's about MY MONAYS! Can't spend MY MONAYS on other people!!1! People don't realize that the overall health (mental & physical) would be better if everyone were more willing to help each other.
Americans are brainwashed starting in Kindergarten to not believe that empathy towards others on society level could be a good thing to have. To them, that's one of the most evil incarnations of socialism, outright communism, the worst danger to US-American society.
In the UK there are paths through all green land regardless of if they are owned by someone, the land has been there longer than the ownership and we are free to walk it xx
Same here in Germany. Bavarian law says: "All parts of the great outdoors, in particular forests, mountain pastures, rocky outcrops, deserted areas, fallow land, floodplains, shorelines and agriculturally used areas, can be entered by anyone free of charge."
"we are free to walk it" If you visit the US, please remember to *not* do that. You could get shot. Private land ownership is taken very seriously - especially in rural areas. Most people are good people, but there are the occasional crazies that will take matters into their own hands.
@@michaelm.1947 Believe me, as a European let me humbly tell you that this sort of thing among many others represents the opposite of what you constantly claim, you're not as free as you'd think and your country, although beautiful in so many ways, seems like a giant factory of mentally deranged people to us.
There's a really good and brief video essay about how that came to be and how it also played a part in American gun culture: ua-cam.com/video/L1iQUF1gQmI/v-deo.html
Hey, thanks for this video! As a german, I am blown away by how blown away you are about things that seem normal to us. Health care sure is a valuable thing, that makes our society better. I'd like to add that health care is not really for free, since everyone pays a certain percentage of their income every month as a kind of social tax. So, people who earn a lot pay a lot, and the ones who get sick get cared for, no matter what they earn. This a social system ❤
There's a mentality in the States that a social system like yours encourages laziness, which will discourage people from being responsible: having a job, paying taxes/bills, etc. The belief is that people will just sit at home and live off of other people's work and tax money. Regardless of how true it is, it is a pathological obsession with A LOT of Americans and most of our ridiculously punitive policies are designed to actively attack these people before they can do it.
@Theomite I totally believe that! In fact, many germans do have this mentality, too. This is mostly discussed in the context of unemployment payments. People complain that unemployed people get way too much money and that there's no reason for them to get back to work, as long as they're paid as much. There are studies that reveal that people are way more motivated to get educated and go to work if they don't have to care about money. And the fewest people are actually intrinsically lazy. I don't care if a handful of lazy people get paid for doing nothing, as long as many more people get chances to keep up and get educated and get out of unemployment soon.
@@Theomite hahahah and they try to prove their point on countries where the unemployment rate is around 3-4%! Germany unemployment rate for 2021 was 3.54%, a 0.28% decline from 2020. Germany unemployment rate for 2020 was 3.81%, a 0.67% increase from 2019. Germany unemployment rate for 2019 was 3.14%, a 0.24% decline from 2018. Germany unemployment rate for 2018 was 3.38%, a 0.37% decline from 2017.
Im Swedish, some years back i had very serious kidney stones, multiple stones and one that lodged wrong in my urethra. I had to have emergency surgery and spend 4 days in the hospital and had several post op checkups. I saw a similar video of an American discussing healthcare so i got curious and found an American site that did estimates for medical procedures, in the US (depending on state and region) my surgery and hospital visit would cost between 52,000 and 76,000 dollars, with over 30k just for the surgery. I paid about the equivolent og 15 dollars for the pain meds prescription. 0 for the hospital visit and surgery.
@Andrew_koala Surgeons live very well in europe too, my dad was a surgeon and he worked part in public heathcare system for all important/urgent/life operation and part in private clinic for all non vital surgery (mostly aesthetic). He was paid by social security on a state scale for all health operations and by his clients at his rate for aesthetic operations. But even in aesthetic operation some clients can have refund by social security (when it's kids, harelip treatement, socialy treatening aesthetic problems...). Only convenience cosmetic surgery is not refund by french social security and that was enough for him. I can't imagine him not operating someone for financial reasons, that would have blow his mind and the Hippocratic Oath he made as a medic student in his youth in hospital school.
@andrew_koala2974 money is important, nobody can deny it, but above a certain amount it doesn't make you happier. There are other things in life apart of work, like time to enjoy with family and friends, to have a hobby that has nothing to do with your job, to travel, to learn, to feel secure outside your house, to have a really good public transport and not to travel like at least 2h by car to go to work, etc. I feel like US society is very materialistic, workholic and lose the meaning of life.
@andrew_koala2974but on the other hand, she has to live in the USA, so swings and roundabouts. Besides, Australian surgeons get paid pretty well too, several hundred thousand dollars per year.
I work in a company dedicated to the export of medical devices, from face masks to magnetic resonance machines. Through my work I have made good friendships with our liaison in the United States. We have exactly the same job, he gets paid 6 times more than me, which at the beginning I am not going to lie, it made me feel bad. But then I found out that my colleague was in debt up to his eyebrows because of his student loan and his father's medical expenses, and the guy had another job to make up for it, it was very confusing to me. With my salary, which in the U.S. you would consider low, I'm finishing paying off my house, I have the car I like, I can afford the occasional treat. I am aware that I am very fortunate, but I still found the contrast appalling.
Yes! This amazes me too! Me and ny husband have a combined monthly net income of like 4000€ (it varies because he gets more for certain tasks he occasionally does) and we have three kids, a house, two dogs and a car. And our salaries aren't considered low. We survive on less because we don't have to take medical bills or crazy insurances or the kids' future education into consideration and therefor we don't need to have five thousand different savings accounts. I pay 17% in income tax, my husband like 28% I think. So we get A LOT for our tax money. Most of all we get peace of mind. 🇫🇮
@@lemonielala3080 to be fair you need to mention the 20% of social taxes on top like disability, health, retirement etc. for it to be comparable internationally. So about 30-50 percent of the gross income is taxed and redistributed or used for shared services. In Germany in case you reach about 200k a year, the social taxes will not be counted on the income above a certain threshold. So technically, the richer you are income wise, the less taxes you pay. To have the higher income tax compensate for the missing social taxes, you need to reach somewhere around half a million a year.
I'm an older Brit. I've watched a few of your videos now and I think you've mostly managed to escape being messed up by America. Your comments are insightful, smart and compassionate. I think you would totally love living abroad and you'd cope just fine with the differences because you are so open minded and thoughtful. You should come to London! 🙂
Ask her about gun laws and she will tell you it's the person holding the gun, so her answer is give more good people guns and they won't have a problem, very American!
You should come to Denmark or one of the other Scandinavian countries…. I fully agree with domramsey… you would love it abroad… and thx for your videos, it really open my eyes of how good things are in Europe…. Here you can actually live your life even with less money… I really pity Americans having to fear getting ill and ending up in a hospital fearing how big the bill will get…. Health care abroad is free only in the U.S it’s not… I live in Copenhagen Denmark… again thx for your videos you take up some interesting subjects… 🇩🇰
@@tomihribar52 it's a fallacy that it's free. You don't have to pay any bill, I know that as a Spanish person and we have universal healthcare, but we actually "pay" indirectly by paying taxes with our salaries. Of course, I don't care paying them even if I don't go to the doctor, because suddenly you know about a person who was diagnosed with cancer and that person doesnt have to pay for all the treatment thanks to our taxes and that makes me feel good.
@@Lindsay5846 You're right, it's insane American reasoning. One could apply the same logic to countries having nuclear bombs. Is the answer to give more countries the bomb so that they wont have a problem?
When I moved to the US for a job on the first day I had to go to HR to finish up a couple contact related things. And one of the things were like "so you are getting 10 vacation days and 10 sick days, and while you have to take those vacation days in the given year, your can take over the sick days to the next year and so on", and I was like "I'm sorry, what are sick days?" And she replied "these are the days you can be sick and still be paid" I was very much confused about everything
Healthcare is still the most mind boggling part for me. At the age of 21, I already had my nose broken 5 times, my left wrist broken, one bone in the right hand also broken, had a surgery at the chest and probably spend half a year total in hospitals during my lifetime(28 atm). My fam would be broke if we hadn't access to universal healthcare. Just insane
I had 6 concussions by the age of 11 (I was a reckless child) which requires MRI scans every time..god only knows how much that would’ve cost my mother if I did this in the US 💀
@@HailHeidi tyvm cuz I am! :) I don't even wanna think about the costs lmao. My mom would have probably let another fam adopt me if we had to pay for this xD (or had to pay huge amounts)
The weirdest part about both the medical care and the homelessness problems is that, even as business-savvy as Americans generally are, they don't see those issues as a loss of tax payers. Same applies to education as well. Even ethical and social considerations aside, having a well-educated, healthy and stable populace makes sense for overall productivity's sake.
We had this situation in the 50s and 60s. The post-War boom created a massive educated workforce that outnumbered the uneducated low-skill low-wage workforce. Our economy wasn't designed to have such massive high-wage workers so employers created what Sir ken Robinson refers to as "academic inflation": a tightening of hiring criteria to exclude more people from the high-paying jobs. This is how extracurricular activities became so important in children's education: a company might look at 2 equally-qualified applicants and reject one because of a 0.5 difference in quantified skill sets. It's all designed to reduce labor costs to virtual non-existence.
I worked in the US for 3 years and was in charge (hah) of an office of around 70 people. I was very shocked a week or two in when one of the girls came to my office to tell me ‘ I’m going to have a sick day on Thursday” - I thought ‘how do you know you’re going to be sick Thursday?’ Then I had a meet with HR who explained the use of ‘sick days’ - mind blown 🤯
In 2017 I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a huge tumour that completely took over the left-hand side of my chest. As a result I had to go for radiation therapy in the city of Oxford, which was around 30 miles away from the town I live in (my town's hospital at that time didn't have a dedicated radiation therapy department, which it now does after successful fundraising of £3 million). I had to go for five days a week, for five weeks straight. Being that I cannot drive due to another medical condition, I was faced with the difficulty of travelling back and forth each day, and being on disability the cost of the bus fare for the entire five-week treatment would have cost more than what I was recieving a month in disability allowance. Fortunately thanks to the NHS they paid for me to get a taxi there and back every day. And it didn't cost me a penny. If I had been living in the USA not only would I not have any health insurance due to my other medical condition (which would have disqualified me due to it being a "pre-existing condition") but the cost of travelling by ambulance or taxi to another city/town to get the radiation treatment probably would have bankrupted me with huge amounts of debt. Nevermind the cost of the radiation therapy itself and later the surgery to remove the tumour and destroyed chest muscle!! Every time I think to myself "man, I'd like to live in the USA, the country is physically beautiful and most of the people are lovely too" I remember stuff like this and realise there's absolutely _NO_ way I could ever afford to live there and remain healthy or ... alive.
Your health is THE most important thing. It’s universally important for all living humans and animals, and everyone. If you don’t have your health, nothing else matters. That is why America’s healthcare for profit system is so highlighted and mindboggling.
9:50 we actually did call an ambulance when my friend twisted her ankle dancing at the club! Good thing we did because in the end it turned out to be broken. We had to wait for like half an hour though because obviously we weren't their top priority in the middle of the night. But in Austria it's actually smarter to call an ambulance when you get hurt because you get treated faster at the hospital compared to a walk in. If you end up getting a taxi, you can get the money back from the health insurance.
In Sweden we have "The freedom to roam" meaning you are legally allowed to hike and even camp wherever you want, even if Its private property. There are some limitations obviously, you cant set up a tent in someones back yard, near government/military security classed objects etc but otherwise pretty much any where. You have to move your tent once every 24 hours or you could get busted for squatting but that basically the only rule.
Now that's interesting! I am an American born and raised in the Western US; there is a lot of mountain land here that is illegal to even exist upon without permission, and especially illegal to camp on. That said, it's not common to get yelled at or arrested for trespassing, but it is strongly frowned upon and if somebody wanted to have you kicked off and/or ticketed for being on land that wasn't "yours" by the police? They absolutely could. One often observes huge properties that're fenced off with "no trespassing" signs posted everywhere... yet no one lives there, no one keeps property there, ect. Just open land with fences blocking it off. If you encountered the "owner", unless they carried the deed on their person, there would be no way they could prove to you that this was "their" land. Ridiculous.
Same thing in Finland. You're also allowed to pick berries and mushrooms and anything else that grows in the wild but not planted crops. You can use fallen branches for firewood but are not allowed to chop down trees (because they are property that has value), and so on.
Well there is 2 rules, the one you mentioned, then there is also do not disturb, do not destroy, inte störa, inte förstöra, leave it the way it was when you arrived. But that rule is so ingrained in us that we kinda forget it is a rule sometimes ^^
In my country we have something similar as well, with the exception that if the property's owner asks/tells/orders you to leave - you have to do so. You can also pick any wild plants as long as they are not protected by law for being under protection, you can't pick planted crops... because that's stealing.
I've seen quite a few american's react to this, and without fail, they just sit there in pure disappointment with their countries treatment of humans. I am glad more and more american's look outwards and learn about the world abroad.
I met a bunch of Americans while I was living abroad. Only one of them that I met was actually getting to know other people from other countries. The others just stayed by themselves, not interested in spending time with us Europeans. And we were living in a country where English is the national language, too. My and friends' thoughts were like "why did you come to study abroad if you don't care about learning about other different cultures and people?". It was weird, but hey, not my loss.
Your reactions are really funny and cool Heidi. Really enjoying them!! As a guy from the UK, the first time I realized America was a little bit messed up was a story I saw of a Young American Lady, who was forced into hospital care and debt in America with a cluster headache. I can relate to this, because I wouldn't wish the pain that comes from one of these on my worst enemy. Its excruciatingly painful and likewise was forced into hospital in constant horrendous pain with one of these headaches, onto an IV and for head scans. I was told there's no real reason as to why they occur, they can just happen. Its actually a scary pain and even affected my speech after a few days. In the UK, My treatment and medication cost nothing. The American Lady's cost over 15000 dollars and debt to have one of these occur. Now that's a seriously sadistic kind of messed up. Also, always find it mindboggling that maternity/paternity leave isn't compulsory over in America when its very common knowledge the first year or 2 of an infants life is the most important, and USA will be one of leaders in the research of this fact no doubt. Anyway, loving the reactions Heidi!!
I live in Wales, part of the UK. I’ve got Multiple Sclerosis, but fortunately as a UK citizen, my treatment is free (including seeing all the specialist staff). All my prescription drugs are free and my specialist medicines (a 3 times a week injection) is delivered to my door and the discarded needles bin is also picked up as and when. As I’ve said - all this is free (good job, I’d be broke trying to afford the meds) I could not take the stress of living with the American system, and as I have a few friends who are American I think it’s a travesty that this is inflicted on the American people by über wealthy people trying to make even more money out of you!
My daughter also has MS and as an Australian all her support care is free also as well as her twice yearly drug infusion. It would cost $60,000 in the USA. Like you we pay about 1/3rd of the amount for our health care via our taxes as they do in the US. The difference is we don't go into bankruptcy if we get ill.
@@eddykate3700 Ironically, the best MS neurologist I ever had was head hunted from the NHS by an Australian company, to set up an MS clinic in Australia. His name is Mike Boggild - it would be an incredible coincidence if your daughter is seen by this man, wouldn’t it?!?
@@eddykate3700 WRONG. There are Aussies who go bankrupt due to medical bills. I would guess fewer, but there are some. It is estimated over 10% of Australians go bankrupt due to ill health as per APH and ASIC. While AU does not keep detailed stats about bankruptcies, some of those that are filing for bankruptcy are due to quality of life procedures they are obtaining elsewhere (ie US, Canada, etc). That has even been shown on the news several times. Some of them are simply due to lost work due to being sick. Ambulatory is expensive in AU and has caused many to be in debt (I never have paid mine from many years ago). I would agree that US has the highest amount due to healthcare, but to claim AU has none is a flat out lie.
The worst thing that could happen trespassing a field is having to move for a tractor or not getting offered some fresh vegetables (if the owners outside)😂 Greetings from Austria
Some years ago I was at a health conference in China and after one of the sessions a couple of US delegates were talking with us (New Zealanders) about the evils of our healthcare system being socialist and by some logic, bad. My friend asked would they like public schools closed along with ending health programmes for the elderly. Somehow these were not socialist (by what logic escapes me) and were quite ok. Good luck with any changes soon, and my genuine sympathy.
I'm an American and have had the same discussion with other Americans that don't like these "socialist" ideas. What about... *Public libraries *Police department *Fire department *Roads & infrastructure (generally paid by the state using everyone's taxes, so small rural areas benefit from taxes from larger cities) *US Postal Service *Medicare *Farm subsidies (would rural farmers be ok with no hand-outs when times are rough?) *Public schools There's more, I'm sure, but the basic tenets of American daily life run off of socialism. God forbid we be SOCIAL to other people! So much MY MONAYS! and Mine Mine Mine!! in American attitudes. Some of my fellow Americans are embarrassing.
The one part that’s worth reading again is “good luck with any changes soon.” Because in fact there will likely very soon be changes - and not for the good. History tends to show that Republics don’t last long, and especially the Democratic form. We’ve had an “American experiment” here for what approx. 250 years or so, and by any standard it’s failing. The end of the Weimar Republic in Germany in 1933 had a dottering old man named Fritz as president who believed despite everything, including Hitler, “everything will be just fine.” Sound familiar?
They are brainwashed, from cold war. Slowly socializm is replaced by terrorist. In cold war times everything evil was socialism, now everything evil is terrorism. Its a tool that USA uses, and it has some side effects like not thinking straight. And some people are happy that theyr not thinking straight, who would want free health care? Only poor people thats for sure. Now when you make poor people think that free health care is a bad thing, man thats scary how easely people can be manipulated.
@@ZzaphodD Spot on, and while they're at it they could look up the meaning of "liberal", "patriot", "freedom" and also learn to differentiate between socialism and social policy.
Every time I find a new American UA-camr reacting to these TikTok’s I feel more and more sorry for everybody in that country 😔 I feel like you’re all stuck in a hopeless situation because the system over there is so fucked up…come live in the UK you’ll love it here 🇬🇧
@@kaydod3190 I think the invitation could be interpreted as come live in Europe. A place you're not likely to be shot and health care doesn't bankrupt you.
Hungarian here, and never been to the US. I had a work opportunity a few years back to relocate to the US within the company, but failed due to some internal stuff. Watching these video compilations and tiktoks, I am sometimes happy that I failed. I'm sure it's not universally as bad as it is mentioned with the guns for example, like there are better and worse areas within the states, it still seems surreal from an outside perspective.
Yes, there are many good parts to be sure. But that's like any third world. A real first world nation has ALL its districts doing well --not just the ones with the rich people.
The gun situation depends on which areas of which cities you're in. A lot of gun violence is accidental or suicidal; most deliberate gun assaults are with unregistered weapons in violent areas. The demographics and politics of the areas have a lot to do with how it happens.
Every country has its bad or dangerous people, of course but in general, in most countries you don’t need to defend yourself. Events like that are extremely rare.
I have a story for you from Germany... My wife works at the local hospital and she told me about this guy... He lives quite a few miles out of town and is always broke. Every now and then, when he wants to go to the city center and can't afford a cab, he'd pretend to have some serious issues and call an ambulance (free service). Then, arriving at the hospital, he'd say that he is much better now and just leaves. This has happened a few times now.
German Paramedic here, and I encountered this kind of persons as well... I dont know how many patients I refused to drive to the hospital, because they are NOT in an emergency. I had patients who had literally nothing, for example a guy who had a scratch(literally a scratch, like from a paper cut!) in his finger and he lived 300-400m away from the hospital...and no me and my partner refused to bring him to the hospital and just said that he can take a taxi and that his finger wont fall off in the next hour. This is one "downside" of our healthcare system, that we paramedics are sometimes used as a fast and cheap taxi and people dont realize that ambulances are for emergencies and not for people who "feeling a little bit ill" or "having a scratch". If you live in germany and you are sick but not in an emergency and not be able to reach the next hospital on your own just call "116117", the number for a mobile doctor who will come to your home 24/7(for free lol).
But, but, but the ambulance ride, which is the only thing we had to pay for with my son costs €20 (in my state ). Emergency surgery, 3 night hospital stay, pt, meds, checks at the hospital every 4 weeks, final surgery to remove metal rods, post op checks and the only thing we paid for was the €20 ambulance ride.
Lol that first one reminds me of when my American ex had to go see the doctor here in Belgium. A month or so later I got a letter in the mail saying they couldn't find any social security information for this person. There was a form to fill out their details, or just check the box "This person does is not on the social security system" (something or other). Checked that box, sent it back, and that was that. Never had to pay anything (apart from the required €5 at the doctor's office).
Here in Australia our health care (Medicare) is free per se....A small portion of our income tax is devoted to paying for Medicare, and you don't notice it. We have 4 weeks paid annual leave and 10 days paid sick leave, plus many public holidays.
Miss Heidi, Congratulations!! You're making America a better place. You have become part of the solution. You wanted to know. You were willing to know. And now that you know, you're letting other people know. "I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better." Maya Angelou
Since there are so many health insurance related stories, there is another side to it as well which is the out of proportion cost in the US even if you don't have any insurance and pay in cash. I'm good at complicating things so as an Austrian living in Spain I managed hurting my knee really bad back in Austria without having any insurance there (the whole story how I managed to not have insurance at this point would cover two pages, it can be done if you're careless enough). So I had to go to the emergency room and pay out of pocket for an exam, X-ray, MRI and another consult with a doctor. The initial exam was free, the X-ray the same night was 80 euros, the MRI that I had to wait for for 10 days was 250 and the final consult with a doctor looking at my images was another 80 euros. So, it was a considerable amount of money I paid for being stupid but nothing that would keep me in debt for years. They also lent me some crutches for free...
I'm a Canadian who lived in Texas for 11 years ( 1989 - 2001, went home for two years ). In 1979 I dislocated my scapula 2cms. Two hours later I was on the operating table. Stayed at the hospital in QC for a day and had to return to get the two pins removed from my shoulder. Total cost was $ 5, which $ 3 was for paperwork. My wife is from MI. Four years ago when she lived in PA her husband got sick, he died two years ago. She lost her business and had to file for bankruptcy due to the medical costs. She also has a medical pre-condition. Me and my country will take care of my beautiful bride. She won't have to worry about medical costs ever again. Heidi, move to Canada and we'll take care of you and your babies. You won't have to worry either about filing for bankruptcy due to medical costs.
Im amazed how many Americans don't know that medical care is free at the point of service in Europe and other Western countries. It seens their Politicians dont want them to know about it so keep it quiet.
I don't know of any other country where a serious illness could make you bankrupt. Also, even if you do have health insurance, there is still no guarantee that your insurers will cover every illness that you may suffer during your life. I'm just glad I don't live in America.
"Reimbursed as well?!" Well yeah, in France we take care of our people. It's in our motto "Liberté, Égalité, FRATERNITÉ" (the upper case one means brotherhood basically). She actually got reimbursed because she probably had some sort of malfunction with social security because we have something called "Tiers Payant" which means "Third Party Payment" basically, which means you just go to the hospital, get well, and the country is going to pay the hospital on your behalf. You won't even know how much was your stay in most cases because they won't even send you a bill or anything. Also, we do that for homeless people for free as well obviously but basically for anyone. If you want your mind blown even more, not giving medical care to someone in need in France is actually a felony that will get you jailed.
Not only will landowners in the UK not shoot you, but they are responsible for the upkeep of any footpath that crosses their land. There's around 150,000miles of public footpaths in the UK, plus bridle paths for horses and green lanes for vehicles. Btw, my car insurance is £200 per year.
Every person has the right to shoot invaders on the land. If you don't leave they have the right to neutralise you. You don't speak for all Brits...like me
Health care is free in majority of European countries. It is obligatory by law to hv paid holidays, paid time off for birth (mums & dads), regulated gun ownership, very few shootings and better education!
As an American who has by now lived in Asia (and Australia) for the last 12 years, there are SO many stories about this. My cousin from CA lives in Australia. She had a YEAR off with pay when she had her 2 kids. Many of our fellow Yanks have no idea. Just NO idea! I often follow the vlogs of black people who move overseas and that's a huge eye opener as well. First thing they always mention is the peace of mind and safety you feel.
I must Say in Roumania Ur company whr u Work gives 2 years at home and the state pays money for the woman tonstay at home If the woman She doesnt work the men of he works he can take free 2 years from work to take care of kid and șo one
had a black kid here on a UK cop show car was getting lifted no insurance, he vented to the camera such a pain the cops are polite and respecfull if i was in the US i would be face down wearing cuffs and wondering if i am going to be used as target practice, here all i have to worry is am i getting a signal to ask my mate to come and pick me up
In Germany, pepper spray does not actually fall under the Weapons Act. Provided that it bears the inscription: "To protect against animals". Similar terms are also allowed. If there is no designation as an animal repellent spray or a similar label on the packaging, the spray falls under the Weapons Act.
It occurs to me that pretty much everything people have mentioned is to do with reducing stress - more time off to rest & relax, less fear of illness/attack/finding yourself in reduced circumstances. I believe the gap would not be so huge if FDR had lived long enough to push through some changes in the immediate postwar period (it took the postwar mood in the UK to make it happen here) Healthcare is the biggie, of course - my mother-in-law was on dialysis for years, which is not a cheap treatment at all, but we never had to pay anything. Sometimes people go too far the other way in their attitudes, and clog up the system with trivial complaints because it's free. I think people should be sent something like a bill showing what it cost the NHS - a kind of "here's what you didn't have to spend" - just so people appreciate it more. Technically we do actually pay insurance (it's called National Insurance, and pays for healthcare, pensions, unemployment support, maternity leave, etc). The difference is that it's socialised. That means (a) people pay according to their ability based on income and the money is used to benefit whoever needs it, and (b) nobody is making a direct profit off it, so the incentive is to keep costs down rather than boost income. This is why we have a better healthcare system for much less money per capita. Unfortunately the UK is currently sliding towards America. Parts of the NHS have already been privatised and other parts have been restructured to make it easier to sell off when the government can slip it past the voters. Pay and conditions for staff have been deteriorating for years; this is part of a deliberate policy to run the service down so there will be less resistance to privatisation. I'm really hoping the tide will turn in time.
I'm from Poland 🇵🇱 and when I watch video's like this one , I can't believe in your country government treating their own people's so bad ... normal thing's in Europe 🇪🇺 are unbelievable for Americans 😮 ... by the way you are beautiful 😊
I'm an European, and in July this year, I lost a dear American friend who couldn't afford insulin. So yeah, it makes me angry too that the American people don't have the rights to free healthcare funded by all the tax money you guys have to pay.
The homelessness “if they just stopped taking drugs” mentality is so broken. Even if you imagine for a second that a homeless person is on drugs, and decided to stop one morning, what are they going to do then? Have a shower and drive to work? They don’t have a job, don’t have a correspondence address or a smart set of clothes in order to get one, they don’t have a credit score (or address) to borrow the things they need, or a car or even money for a bus in order to get somewhere there might be an opportunity to step up somehow. What on Earth do you do to start getting out of that situation?? In their shoes I’d probably be overwhelmed by hopelessness, lie back down, and take some more drugs. Getting them off drugs may be part of the solution, but active practical support is actually even more important.
Don't forget the typical comments on news about homeless people: "If they gave him a job (last week), why is he still living on the streets?" "He bought clothes (for $30) instead of a down payment on a house?!" "If he didn't smoke (a pack of $4) he would have enough money for all the houses he could ever need!"
If those Tik Toks messed you up, this is really going to blow your mind: I live i Denmark, and here education is not only free, the government actually pays you a monthly SU (stands for studen education support) of roughly 900 dollars to help you pay for rent and food while you study. This begins as soon as you turn 18 and continues until you are finished with your education, whatever level it might be.
Another example, this time about shootings in Denmark. We recently had one of the most devestating shootings in the country where "only" three people were shot and killed. This happens so rarely that it sent the whole country into mourning and was breaking news for over a week. It even resulted in a massive gathering where the entire royal family visited, along with like 500 other people, to pay respect to victims and their families.
Well its not free, you will pay back with your taxes. The idea is simple, country invests in education, people with degree's earn more, so pay more taxes. And also its good for equality, because everyone has same opportunity to get good education.
But not all of it is given is it? Here in Norway its a similar amount I think (Im not a current student). But I think you get 60 or 40% of it, if you pass your exams. (Or eventually redo them to pass). And the rest is a student loan that you eventually have to start paying off.
@@Miamia_01 hi Marie. A small amount i taken in tax, so you get around 800 dollars in total. The tax amount is increased if you earn to much on a side job. Furthermore, there is a max amount og SU years, so as to stop People from exploiting the system. However it will never become a loan. You can take an SU-loan whilst studying, which has an insanely low interest rate of like 4 percent yealy, and won't have to pay anything back while you're studying :) Hope that cleared up a bit more
@@patrikkelhornskov so its the same as in Norway then it seems. Interesting:) Or it seems you get more of it for free actually. Not sure what the amount is now but its not 800 usd for free. Maybe 500 and rest is loan, that you pay later with low interest.
About sickleave. I have ASD and ADD and had a major burnout and depression. So my boss said, get better first.Did not work for 2 years now. I get income from the state every month to be able to pay the bills. Am finally starting to do better and really want to start working again. It is more money each month and sitting at home all day is not really fun either. About weapons. I am 42 now and the only people I did see with a gun was the police. Never heard one being fired or seen one being fired, except on tv. Same for knifes. Never seem someone carry one or worse, see someone being stabbed. The worst thing I did see was someone being punched. Maybe 2 or 3 times in my adult life. And did go out to the bar with friends a lot. It is not perfect here, nowhere is, but at least have a lot less worries.
I'm from Israel, and was in the US a few times. longest was for 10 months for flight school in Las Vegas. I loved my time there, and I miss the food in the US more then anything. (Weird as that may sound) Twice in that time I saw people shot and killed, and it felt very unsafe everywhere the entire time I was there. Luckily I had no medical issues :P , but I paid about 100$ in Israel for Traveling insurance that covered any emergency or medical care for a year. (with the option to be flown back home if needed, or if I became incapacitated for Any reason)
Our food is filled with sugar and other addictive additives, so that's no surprise. But you're from Israel and seeing 2 separate shootings made you feel unsafe? Don't you guys live in fear of bombings and mass shootings in public every day?
@@Theomite well, I only saw one person die from street related violence once in my entire life in Israel.... and no, people don't walk around being scared of mass shootings, as those are a relatively new thing, and haven't really happened more then a couple of times. and even then, they are nowhere near something like these school shootings that are happening in the US. Military service is Mandatory in Israel, so you see soldiers everywhere, and they carry their rifles at all times. those soldiers are part of every day life, they are your siblings, neighbors, highschool crush, and most people in the population. you see some of them walking their brothers to school in the mornings while heading to base, or in any public transport. meaning you have a lot of people with weapons around, but 90% of those are all Trained soldiers. You cannot buy a weapon in Israel unless you did military service, and finished it. if you were dishonorably discharged, or didn't serve, or have any mental or physical instabilities, you lose your ability to own a gun license. meaning that about 85% of the population has been Gun trained, and will know how to operate a weapon if needed. on the other hand in the US you have so many guns in circulation, yet 85% of people owning guns, have no gun training, and/or Should not have access to guns to begin with. So yeah... I feel safer with guns around, when I know the people holding them are TRAINED, and they Respect the gun for what it is.
@@Theomite really? what about the Oklahoma City car bomb of the 90's? and those were terrorist attacks.... or have you forgotten about 9/11? and there's a whole long list of stuff like that in the US. I think you should read more into your own history.
@@AdarColussi No, that was a legitimate question. When Americans think of Israeli citizens we tend to think of people dodging or planning for daily bombings in Tel Aviv (which is the only Israeli city we tend to know), but, like I said, that reputation might've been built from events of the 90s or early '00s, I don't know. That's why I was asking YOU.
in western Europe sick leave is quite extensive, but not so in Eastern Europe. In Czech Republic the first 3 days of sick leave are unpaid. Therefore many companies want to move jobs to Prague, and therefore Czech Republic has zero unemployment. In Austria, maternity leave is 2 years, paid by the government social security. One of these years can be paternity leave. My cousin timed her children to have 4 years of maternity leave. The employer does not pay but has to keep the job open. So her employer had to get a temp for 4 years and then she went back to her job.
Just to add a little detail, England is the only part of the UK which has prescription charges. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland they are completely free for everyone. Also, pepper spray is also illegal here. You can't carry anything which is designed to be a weapon.
If you want some real eye opener check out "Why other countries treat their people so much better" from channel "Second Thought" and "David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything" from channel "The Gravel Institute". But be warned, this is some shocking reality hammer for Americans. Best wishes from Switzerland
I'm from Latvia, we have to have a doctor for every person, which is called a family doctor, to which you go if you get sick, the visit costs 2€. If there are serious health problems, there are 2 options, to pay for the necessary procedure without a queue and State aid, or to wait in line for state-paid or partially compensated ones. It depends on the procedure, sometimes it is better to wait in line, other times you simply pay and the insurance reimburses all or part of it
Having to pay anything like that small amount seem rather pointless. Just creates more bureaucracy. Here in Norway its free at least. The annual out of pocket for health services is around 300 USD in 2022. A doctors appointment is about 31 USD which is counted towards the 300 limit.
It can be expensive here in Australia but you can pay about fifty bucks a year as a membership so it becomes free if you do have to use it.... if you don't have to use it you don't get your fifty back though :)
Free in Estonia for everybody, including foreigners and non-insured. Although there are some kind of criteria for what they send ambulance .. mild headache probably does not count :)
I Dutch and yeah, if you’re sick go home till you’re better. There is no limit. But keep in mind that if you don’t have a permanent contract and you’re sick a lot, that wont do you any good for your job security. But I guess that makes sense as in that people won’t abuse the sick leave. So this year I wasn’t feeling well. I still went to work because it was really busy at work. Got through monday, but tuesday I went home. Wanted to take 1-2 days off and get back to work because we had a lot of work to do. On wednesday I texted my supervisor that I still wasn’t feeling great, but I felt better and that I would be back on thursday He said; stay home and I will see you next week. I felt pressured because I didn’t want to leave my colleagues with all the work, but nice that I could take some rest, get well and get back to work on monday all better.
12:45 at least in Finland if you are on a four week summer holiday and get sick, your absence is covered by sick leaver rather than annual leave or PTO. But the first 7 days are actual PTO, so this doesn't cover brief flew. More like if you get into a car crash and you aren't able to enjoy your leave.
Some years ago we travelled through Europe, and it just happened in Millau, France, that our son complained about earache and we were to fly back home in 3 days. We went to the pharmacy and the lovely pharmacist there spoke pretty good English, organised a visit to an English speaking doctor thee next morning, which was so nice of him😊 my son had an ear infection needing an antibiotic. The doc visit cost was 7 euro, medicine 3 euro😮
4:38 No dear, they do not get what they deserve. If *you* had been born in their families, if you had experienced the abouse they experienced many times during childhood, you would most likely do the same. That thought of yours shows lack of empathy and understanding of the problem.
8:00 I spend $110 a month on insurance. That covers my car and apartment and health insurance is not needed since health care cost me nothing. Canada. An ambulance cost about $35.
I am Norwegian. I am going to the hospital in two days. I am getting a CT with the contrast fluid to. That will cost me 26 USD. Spesialist and the normal family doctor cost between 20-37 dollars. Depend on what it is. And if you need to stay in the hospital that's free. Alot of meds are free, and the once you have to pay for are not expensive. And all you pay for doctors, alot of meds, physical therapy, CT, exray, MRI, mammogram, all that stuff get automatically added up for you, if you spend 291 dollars on all or any of that stuff you get all that stuff for free the rest of the year. It's to make sure that people who are sick or injured so they need alot of scans, doctors, physio, meds they don't have to pay more then 291 dollars in a year.
Speaking of sick days, I heard a story about a woman who was fired for taking too many sick days. She had been recovering from donating a kidney - a kidney she had donated to her boss, who then fired her.
if you are sik in germany you will receive continued payment of wages for 6 weeks, from the seventh week the health insurance company will continue to pay 80% of your salary until you are able to work again (in extreme cases),You pay 5 euros for medication on prescription (e.g. if there are 3 medications on the prescription, it is 15 euros, only for particularly expensive medication it is sometimes a little more than 7.50 or 8 euros for the special one) , Hospital stays cost 10-15 euros per day for food, at least that was the case when I was last in the hospital 10 years ago
So, I am a Swede whose best friend is American and one day we just ended up on the topic of emergency at school, and she and another friend who is also American explained to me how they had to do active shooter drills, I though they were pulling my leg, but no, they were dead serious about there being random active shooter drills. My fiance is also America and he talked about how he also had to do active shooter drills at school and I am here, in Sweden, doing fire drills and that's it.. I was just so shocked that this is a reality for people who are suppose to live in a first-world-developed-country. Another discussion I had with my fiance and his family (their ethnicity are philippines) and they explained that to get a bank account or a passport they have to fill out their race.. that is such a new concept to me and they also told me how a white friend and my fiance's brother both apply for a passport at the same time, the white guy got it within a week, my fiances brother took over 2months, I am a white female and I just felt so disgusted and ashamed down to my bones and soul, even if I wasnt at fault and it kinda made me so mad how they were racially profiling them.
German here - let me add to this for you. I've had bad health issues my whole life. In my childhood and teens I started having severe mental health issues (not going into detail); I had to get therapy (for a while even at a clinic for half a year) for _many_ years. Going into my adult life, starting around age twenty, I grew very ill _physically_ that time around; more than once I was nearly dead and needed an ambulance and hospital stay, and no one really knew why. Eventually it turned out it was hyperthyroidism - which then needed constant medication... ... until it grew too bad, too potentially lethal, and I needed a prolonged quarantine stay at a specialist hospital to get my thyroid removed with radioiodine therapy (nuking the thyroid with radiation, hence quarantine). Now, I need to take constant medication to substitute the hormones a thyroid would normally produce (since I don't have one). It's not the only medication I need either; I also need an inhaler every day for my asthma. It doesn't end there though. The extreme physical weakness and regular pain I experienced for years due to this led to me developing severe pain avoidance habits, moving and exerting myself very little - making the physical weakness worse in turn. What followed were many years of physiotherapy, as well as a lengthy stay at a top-end state of the art medical rehab facility. It _still_ doesn't end here either, because over my twenties I developed new mental health problems; it's not autism, but the symptoms are spectrum symptoms (TL;DR: I have many problems that autists have, but the cause is a different one). So last year I went through a lengthy diagnosis process at a renowned medical university in Munich, and am now about to begin an in-depth cognitive behavioral therapy program. And to add onto _all_ of the above, all of this made me unable to work a job; I had one for a while when I was eighteen, but then my health got too bad, been unable to work since. *_Right, so here's the plot twist your American mind is anticipating:_* The _only thing_ - ever - of all of the above that doesn't come out of the _basic_ yearly insurance fee is the daily medications... which I restock every three-or-so months for eight-or-so bucks. *_But SIKE, double plot twist:_* As I am unable to work, I actually _don't need to pay_ that insurance fee; the state does it for me, and makes sure I have enough money to afford not just my apartment, utilities, food and so on - no, I also have enough to afford some hobbies and leisure products and activities every month.
i broke my finger at work on 21st of november , ive been nearly 2 months on sick leave, and my traumatologist just extended my sick leave for 2 weeks, and i get paid 75% of my average pay every week. ( people might think, broken finger is a wuss thing, but well , not when your fingers muscles got torn ), and im also one of the people who actually hides beer can somewhere in public and sips it, because you can get fined quite a lot for drinking in public, but sometimes you just want to, when you are hungover.
Hi HailHeidi, I'm from New Zealand. I'm here Just to say keep on the great work on your reacting videos. Also, you should edit a compilation video of all of the times that you have yawned in your past videos.
In norway you pay a TINY fee for anything medical related up to a maximum of ~300$ after that anything else is free, with some exceptions like treatments not approved by a goverment medical board. Often those are very new experimental treatments, or treatments with no clinically proven effects. And in those cases you can still apply to get it covered, its just not automatically covered.
In Latvia we have paid maternity leave for 12 months and if you want you can have 18months of paid maternity leave and emloyer must take you back to work after. Ough and 3rd trimester is a paid sick leave.
I'm 99% sure that "Swedish" home insurance is similar to what we have in Finland... It doesn't include car insurance.. There is a car insurance for cars.. which is divided to mandatory traffic insurance,(which only pays for damage you cause) and volunteer insurances.. full car insurance, covers all parties involved , thieft and fire insurances for cars is also optional home insurance only covers stuff happenings in your home.. . kinda like name hints... Stuff like pet knocking over your TV, kids causing home to flood, or someone robbing your home..
8:50 a hundred a month? mine is about 20 per month, but it doesn't cover any damage to my own car if i crash, and I drive less than 5000 km (3000 miles) per year so there is a big discount. it does cover damage to 3rd parties, and in case i crash into a deer or a moose. and of course it covers any hospital bills, i think.
I'm Swedish and lets see 🤔 For one night in a hospital bed is about 10 USD. This includes 3 meals plus meals between meals like sandwich 🥪 . Also all doctor you console during your stay and depending how many days you stay. To see a doctor is 30 USD. You don't need to pay when you are there, they send you the bill about a month after so you have gotten your payday from work so you have money to pay. Myself I never have any money and always ask them to send me the bill. We also have a limit how much it can cost per year. Doctors visits are about 120 USD per year after that it's free. Prescriptions are about 250 USD per year after that free. So if you need meds that cost 250 USD the first time then if you need more they are free for a from the day you you started paying for it. Depends on how long it takes you to reach the limit.
France here. If it can gives you an idea for the health care, due to various medical problems, I had to see a doctor 4 times in a singular month, I did 3 blood check as well as a urinary check, an echography and had had 2 medicine prescription during this time. Feeling better right now, looking back I had to pay 110 euros in total for all of that, and I'm currently waiting for 80% of it to be reimbursed.
I'm austrian and have been working in portland (orgeon) for two months and the concept of sick days is something i really couldn't understand. I don't know if it's normal or just something my colleagues where doing, which would get you immediately fired elsewhere but they treated their unused sick days as paid vacation days 😂 like close to the end of the year they would call in sick if they had some left over sick days. would love to hear from someone in the US if thats a common practice.
In Poland You can spend up to 3 years in prison if you dont help someone in case of any situation when her/his life or health is in danger. Also you cannot be punished for any action during this help. We have cpr traings in schools, work and of course during DL courses. It's realy help when you are in situation
That is true in the US as well. You can be fined IF you do not help someone when you have the training, or if you leave before appropriate paramedics or Dr's arrive. Nor can you be punished so long as you attempt to do your best. The issue is, this is not the same in reverse for those in the medical industry. Paramedics, Dr's, nurses, etc can all be punished for actions when trying to help. Medical facilities carry liability insurance (and other insurance coverages) just for this sole reason, which is just on the many reasons that contributes to US higher healthcare costs.
i got CPR training when i was nine has 1st aid drills all adult life only time i used it took 4 mins for medics to arrive they looked at us said carry on you doing that right got set up then took over
I began my working life in the early 1970s, back in the stone age, the basic rate of tax then was 37% & those who paid most, proportionately, were single men. I was very well paid &, with National Insurance on top, paid about 45% of my earnings. I got pissed off with that pretty quickly & went self-employed. However, in 2008 I was diagnosed with leukaemia, the treatment I received was swift & exemplary. I felt so glad that I'd been born when I was & where I was, I can't begin to imagine what the financial cost of all my treatment was & is, continuing to this day. However, under the auspices of the wonderful NHS that is never a consideration, though that doesn't mean that I take the treatment I received for granted, I'm profoundly grateful for all that has & is being done for me. Thank God for the NHS & long may it flourish. That tax money was money very well spent.
The one thing that I never heard stated was the Tax rate they pay for the "free care". Most of the countries that are named are around 30% or more in taxes to the government. Nothing is free. You pay for it one way or another.
I think you’re misunderstanding the social support concept. The idea in countries with well-established social support is not “helping the homeless,” but preventing people from getting to the point that they become homeless. It encompasses a spectrum of lifestyle safety net systems - free healthcare helps you stay healthy and able to work properly, paid vacation days so you can maintain a healthy work-life balance and spend time with your family, unemployment benefits for when you suddenly find yourself out of a job, childcare allowance to help you provide for your kids’ basic necessities, free education so you can send kids to school and prepare them for work in the future without going broke, and so many other social support programs. Instead of looking at it as “people let themselves become homeless and still the government helps,” think of it as helping people not become homeless. That’s why countries with these systems also have very low or decreasing rate of homelessness. Although, often they do also have programs designed to help the homeless get back on their feet when the worst happens. But those don’t cost the government much since there are far fewer homeless people than in the US.
That is even better! So it sounds like America is further behind in this matter than I even thought... Thank you for explaining this to me! 💜
@@HailHeidi its also not fair for americans. Becose its no like "oh its his fault, his probably drunk, junkie, or gambler. He has what he deserve." Lots of homeless in america end up in the street becose healthcare or other insurance, or ret-ard lawsuit. There is probably more PHD's in card box hauses in alleys than in universities.
Maybe the government make sure that people believe that the homeless are addicted to something. So people think it's their own fault and not actually the way the government is screwing Americans over. I live in Norway, have seen alot of videos with people saying that they are homeless because they got cancer or lost their job and alot of different things that would not happen most other places in the world. Pretty much every American can end up in that situasjon. That is so sad. When people talk about the American dream i think I'm happy i don't live there, i am so lucky to be born where i am.
Yes, for example in Norway the only way someone actually becomes homeless is if they actively refused/ignored all of the social safety nets. If you for whatever reason can't afford to rent the state will help you and in some cases like single mothers can actually get a home loan assistance to buy some very modest apartment or house. The higher quality of life the kids have the better they will eventually contribute to society later in life. Helping people avoid abject poverty isn't about keeping them barely hovering above some arbitrary threshold of 'not impoverished' its about making an investment in the future instead of doing the bare minimum.
@@Sindrijo same in Japan! The homeless are the ones who refuse help. They don’t panhandle either, so if you try to give them money or any kind of help they get insulted and snub you. ☹️
When I lived in New York for awhile 99 percent of the homeless people I talked to said that they were on the streets because they became sick or had an accident then lost their job, couldn't cope with the medical bills and then lost their house. It just made me cry. Only one said it was because of drugs and he was a veteran who couldn't cope with the things he had seen yet no one cared and he didn't get help. It's easy to think "oh they caused this to themselves" until you are in the situation yourself and realize there was nothing I could've done. Scary how society doesn't care.
Europe isn't perfect.
But Europe on the whole has a more balanced lifestyle then the US.
Yes, because they don't have to spend money on things like modern military infratructures thanks to the U.S. shoring them up.
Source: I did it for 12 years
@@savevsdeath Sure, you keep on believing that. Once you wake up to reality give us a call, will you?
@@savevsdeath And yet the per capita spend on health care is about double that of Europe. This has nothing to do with military spending.
@@savevsdeath i don't mean to be insulting but do you realy belive the world and other countrys are working because of you americans ? dude seriously get over yourself its ridiculous... we have 27 different countrys and cultures in europe and they are working perfectly fine without the US , shit every single one of them have a culture and history before the US was even discoverd by europeans xd. Btw some of the european country are biggest weapon dealer in the world they didnt wait for you xd
@@savevsdeath Bla bla bla, US is such a saint, they protect Europe so we Europeans can live happy and worry free, while their own citizens go homeless. Yeah, right, that's all, there is nothing else to this story. Yeah.
All I can add is a saying I really like:
the true measure of any society can be found in how it treats its most vulnerable members
LGBTIQ ppl is the most vunerable in us society, and they treats them good. :D
*gasp* That's un-American! Greed is good. Yes, the USA is set up to benefit the 2% at the expense of everyone else... but that's the way things should be. Keep your socialist 'sense of community', safe streets, and respect for human rights. America, home of the brainwashed, land of the ignorant, has consumers, not citizens. Woo-hoo! Best country on Earth! *facepalm*
And it's prisoners
U re a good 1.. agreed
I LITERALLY had this discussion with my sister 20 minutes ago. In the UK they are being really nasty to some asylum seekers to appeal to the racist right wing. My sister said "its horrible the way they are treating these people" I pointed out "ITS NOT "these people, its YOU. If they will treat asylum seekers like they, they will treat YOU like that when the time comes"
As a Australian. In the U.S. as a tourist I nearly got shot and other people were threatened to be killed. I just could not believe how bad the U.S. was. Americans say we are the freest country in the World 🌎. After travelling a lot in my 62 years of life .
I put the U.S. at the very bottom for freedom. U.S. was the only country I did not feel safe in!!
Totally! I pretty much would walk around anywhere here in the UK and pretty much anywhere in Europe.
Living in the States was the only time I didn’t feel able to go wherever I wanted. It was anything but free.
I actually drove along a country road over there, I realised I was going the wrong way and decided to back into someone’s driveway so I could turn around and go the other way- something I would do here without even thinking - I backed in and waited for the road to clear. In those few seconds the house owner appeared on his porch WITH A SHOTGUN!!
Actually, the US came in 15th in the 2021 Global Freedom Index. A slight improvement from 21st under the previous "regime". Switzerland and NZ were first and second with Australia coming in at number 8. I imagine the "land of the free" will drop significantly for the 2023 report with the recent changes to bodily autonomy laws there. A really scary country for sure.
I'm glad you survived your ordeal, my friend. This American currently living in Asia, agrees.
The US actually is pretty much at the bottom of the league when it comes to safety. The last time I checked it was about 15 from the bottom. When challenged on this the response tends to be along the lines of 'shootings are mostly in deprived, high crime areas'. I'm willing bet you weren't in such a place. A paranoid, armed population isn't good!
It sounds absolutely awful but Australia should be thankful for Port Arthur Massacre because that brought on the strict gun laws you have today and if that hadn't happened you'd be in the same boat as the 'muricans and many times more would be dead over time by now. A tragedy you learned from, that is how a proper nation works.
as a Frenchman, I realize the problems you have with your health.
I hear a lot of people around me complaining about "paying too much taxes"! this tends to annoy me.
They don't realize we are paying taxes for this! and the same goes for school! studies are completely free in France!... I'm a little ashamed for them, because they don't realize how lucky we are
In the States, we often don't see our tax money being used FOR us. We pay it and it disappears. We never benefit from it in any way that we notice.
But in France you are not just lucky for your social system, you fought for it, and still fight for it.
I think it's a difference of perspective. As a Norwegian I pay my taxes to the state but in my mind, we the people are the state. I'm paying taxes to myself to better the life of myself and others. Out of that deal I've gotten "free" education, "free" healthcare, a good public transport network, etc, etc. I guess I too would be peeved to pay taxes if I saw nothing good in return.
@@slashdotism Ever since I learned anything about politics I've learned that Americans are pathologically obsessed with "undeserving." That it's worth depriving 1,000 "deserving" people just so that 1 "undeserving" person can't get a single free thing. Our need to actively *harm* someone we see as "lazy" or "undeserving" drives a LOT of our Conservative policy.
The belief that government assistance that actually works (like yours) will destroy people's motivation to be productive has religious significance over here. Desperation as a motivator for purpose is an unspoken but sacred belief here and it's killing us.
French here too, I agree with you but not at all at the same time.
When people complein about paying too much taxes, we don't talk about the health or studies relate things. We talk about the taxes going into politicians and big companies pockets. And it's not lucky either, we fought and continue to fight for it : as the backlash on retirement reform suggests.
nobody wakes up one morning and thinks I'm going to take drugs and be homeless. there almost always a tragic story behind it.
My wife had cancer two times 15 and 10 years ago, both times the whole program - surgery, chemo, radiation. I was diagnosed with one of the few remaining uncurable cancers 7 years ago, which resulted, among a lot of other things, in a stem cell transplant, and I had to spent nearly a whole year in hospitals. Due to that, we both can't work anymore and are on disability pensions. In the USA we surely won't now be sitting in our own house living a modestly comfortable life, as we can do here in Germany.
Not all homeless people are drug addicts and drunks. A lot of people are escaping from bad situations, and if the street is better than their homelife it shows how bad their situation was. Sometimes kids are just thrown out of their homes. This is not a simple situation.
I was homeless for several months starting at the end of 2018. Not an alcoholic or a drug user. Due to unrelated medical issues I lost my previous job (working for a UK bank.) In hindsight I did have a mental health crisis that prevented me from taking the necessary (simple) actions needed to head off becoming homeless. I lived in a homeless shelter in Salford over Christmas, and pretty plainly the vast majority of residents there had some kind of problems that they could not overcome without help, a minority of which were addiction related. Fortunately I live in a civilised country, and local council workers helped me get rehoused while the DWP hooked me up with a private company that worked with me on retraining and rebuilding my confidence. I eventually got a well paying full time job, but I am glad that this didn't happen in the US. My impression is that I would have been written off at an early stage.
@@michaelnolan6951 Well done for being able to turn yourself around. I have nothing but admiration for you. I agree it is probably a different story in the US. They think our welfare, social state is comunism and are scared stiff by it. They don't appear to have compassion for their less fortunate fellow Americans.
When you're sick, you're sick, not lazy.
It's just totally mind blowing to see the concept of planned sick leave. It's like the companies are accusing their workers of not being actually sick, but to pretend being sick to get a work day off. Well, that's what paid leave is for, not sick leave.
Exactly. I think the reason why people claim "sick" days so often here is because we don't feel like we have access to or have enough vacation days. People need breaks! 💜
@@HailHeidi some people in europe use sickdays even when they feel lazy. I was like oh crap I gamed all night long, let§s take a sick leave with reason of diarhea, for those often you don't even need a doctors approval about you being sick. One of my friends visits her parents for a week, tells the doctor that she does not feel well and takes a week sickleave.
if you get pregnant you can take 3 years of parental leave that is paid and company is by law enforced to not to fire you. If company figures out you are pregnant before you go take the leave, they can fire you, which is often the case in small companies with ignorant bosses.
it sounds nice, but on the other hand companies loose money since sickleave is a paid leave. and especially for young women planning to have children its harder to find a job due to the 3 year parental leave.
Oh and... vacations are in some companies paid with a better hourly rate, it happened to me once I went to a week long vacation and my payout was bigger :D
"chucking a sickie" is nearly a national pastime in Australia lol
Well, to be fair some people abuse the system, especially in France and that's a shame because those people ruin it for everyone else.
One of my biggest culture shocks when I lived in the US was one time I was sick, went to the doctor, the pharmacy, came back to the office to say I was going home for the day and would call the next day in case I wasn't feeling better... and I was asked if I was taking my work home.
Germany here
Some time ago, after we had the news of anther school shooting in the USA, i stumbled over a comment that i think the governor of that state made that went like "see ? if the teachers would have had guns, they could have stopped the shooter !"
First i was laughing because i thought it was satire. Then i realized it wasn't and i remembered my school days and thought "yea great idea if American school kids are anything like ours they wont have to worry about someone walking into a school to shoot up the kids, the teachers would have done that already"
In the USA the answer to problems with guns always seems to be "more guns!"
That's the problem with America, people are walking around with guns to protect themselves from other people with guns 😆
Ban guns.... problem solved 😉
@@davebirch1976 that would be too smart for them.
American on the outside (Japan) looking in here. The argument about arming teachers or having more guns make zero sense to me. The final nail in the coffin about those arguments came after the Uvalde, Texas shooting. There were police and SWAT (military-like intervention) guys in the school and outside the school. They were well-armed themselves, but never went in to deal with the shooter until after 21 people (mostly children) had been killed. If the police and these heavily-armed SWAT guys aren't willing to take out a single shooter, what difference is a teacher with a handgun going to make?
@@michaelm.1947 Not to mention, if the shooter only has a single clip or two and managed to get to the teachers guns .. more victims. Or he goes for the gun cabinet(that surely wont be securely locked, because how can they access guns fast then) he would have even more guns and ammunition.
And schools would now also be a target for gangs trying to get more guns and ammunition.
Its just dumb xD
It's seen as a "good person vs. bad person" situation here, mostly. The peaceful route--better mental health services, less aggressive socializing of children, reduced stress environment--is a massive, longterm, and very expensive maintenance issue to the "more guns" politicians, many of whom accept campaign contributions from very wealthy industrial powers who don't want to pay those taxes. "Killing the crazy with his own sword" is seen as a cheap and heroic solution to a problem.
Also, recently some "more guns" politicians rejected legislation that would have approved mental health evaluations in public schools. They claimed it was an infringement on parental rights (as well as a "socialist" program) but people suspect that public school psych evaluations would make it easier to detect physical and sexual abuse in students BY their parents, most of whom vote for "more guns" politicians.
Approximately 10 years ago an American policeman and his wife were visiting Alberta during the annual Calgary Stampede. While walking on a pathway in a city park, the couple encountered two young men coming in the opposite direction. When they were closer, one of the young men greeted them and asked if they were going to 'the Stampede'. The couple said that they were not and quickly kept walking.
Once back in America, for some unknown reason the policeman went on social media to say that if he had been allowed to have his service revolver with him in Canada he would have pulled it out and possibly shot one or both of those young men for 'assaulting' he and his wife. Further, the cop went on to say that he felt unsafe under those circumstances and that he was glad to be back in America where he could 'defend himself'.
Canadians just shook their heads.
Nuts!!!!
Just as well for those two friendly individuals the cop couldn’t have his service revolver on him, or they would have been murdered by that paranoid yank who would have been arrested and charged. That’s how having guns everywhere has affected them mentally.
Very fortunate for those two friends that the cop was not allowed to bring his precious gun with him. That just proves how the gun culture has conditioned them mentally in the USA.
I'm American and I say that that policeman is an idiot. I'm sure there are people from other countries that have said stupid things like this and posted it for all the world to see.
The scary part is that many of those who's homeless have ended up on the streets because they went bankrupt because of medical bills....
Universal healthcare doesn't make people go bankrupt because of such bills....
And yet countries with universal healthcare does have people that file bankruptcy, some of which are going bankrupt due to medical bills. So I am going to say FAIL. I would agree that generally speaking universal healthcare does not have nearly as many people going bankrupt, but to say it doesn't make any people is simply false.
@@kevinfisher1345 l don't even want to know who's told you that lie.
No one, l repeat NO ONE file for bankruptcy due to medical bills in the modern civilized world...
That's not even possible, because we DON'T get bills....
I'd be interested to learn about specific stories of that happening and what happened after. 💜
@@stigandrmyrardalur5208 It is not a lie mate unless the AU govt is lying and the AU news is lying and Australian citizens are lying. This as per the AU news (on several instances over the last decade) from actual people that had done so. It is also as per APH (Australian Parliament House) and ASIC (Australian Securities and Investments Commission). Both of which are AU government departments. And that is only one country, there are plenty more.
Per APH there are roughly 20k filed bankruptcy claims per year. And the number 4 reason is due to Ill Health which (this varies per year, but) is roughly about 11% of claims. Or in other words around 2.2k.
But this is also supported by ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics).
So yes mate all of those people and AU departments are lying. I wonder which one I am going to believe. Actual people and AU itself or some unknown person on YT.
I personally did NOT file for bankruptcy, I simply never paid my medical debt. IF push came to shove though, I would have filed bankruptcy due to unable to pay my medical bills. Guess I am now a liar as well, Smh!
@@kevinfisher1345 🤡🤡🤡
Madonna brought a country estate in the UK and it had a public footpath that ran through her property and she went to court to try and stop people walking through her land well she lost the case to say she wasn't happy is a understatement lol
That's too American haha.
@@KillberZomL4D42494 Our maybe she was just worried about crazed fans assaulting her or getting souvenirs from here property. Whatever the case, she should have known about the public footpath before she bought it and decided whether she could live with it.
I’m 28 now born and lived in the UK my entire life. It literally blows my mind that free healthcare isn’t something that happens all around the world, I couldn’t even imagine having to pay money for my right to survive as a human being. The way I see it in America is that the rich have a choice whether to live and the poor have no choice but to die. So much for the American FREEEEDOMMM….
its not free, we pay for it out of taxation.
@@toshe.6690 ‘free healthcare’ means free at the point of requirement
@@bizzryt6427 Which means it isn't free.
@@savevsdeath no it isn’t ‘free’ but we all accept as citizens that healthcare is necessary at some point in everybody’s life. And if we all pay a little tax in which we barely see out of our paycheck as a collective we are all covered for any health scenario in life no matter the seriousness of it. Seems like a fair deal to me.
@@bizzryt6427 I wouldn't be here now if it wasn't for the NHS, spent 6 weeks at the start year in hospital and will be getting treatment every month for at least a year. Looking quickly at roundabout costs in America it would be in the region of over half a million $. So the little bit of taxes taken from my wages each month is money dam well spent.
I am currently living in the UK for my Masters, and the police came to the school during orientation to explain things to the international students. I think me, and one other person is here. They said that you aren't allowed to have pepper spray here, too! It's a good thing I researched and left mine at home. I honestly feel so much safer here than I do back in the US. The programme leader of my creative writing and publishing MA is also from America and he said he does the same thing I do. Apologize for the US. They are so welcoming here.
I am also not afraid to say my spiritual beliefs, because this school is pretty much saying "don't be afraid to practice your spiritual beliefs. We all get along here." I cried when I found out a Christian vicar was encouraging me to join the school's Pagan society. I belong here.
What's honestly worrying to me as a non-American is how many of these are people getting PTSD triggers from loud bangs like they're a soldier coming home from war.
It’s just so ingrained in us growing up in school after columbine we had shooter drills in school at least once a year sometimes more. You turn off the lights be as quiet as possible and crowd together in a corner away from the windows so the shooter doesnt know if the classroom is occupied or not we dont think about it we just start looking where to take cover. Look at the video of the shooting on the NYC subway from a few days ago everyone did not run to the next subway car they just took cover instinctively until they could finally run at the next station.
We had a visiting American grad student at university, young Republican, out of a well-off family, but from laidback California -- at one point he got his finger caught in a door, crushed finger tip, nail split, lots of bleeding. It tooks us 1½ hour to pursuade him to just go to the emergency room -- yet despite automatically having full coverage from the Danish health care services, he still did not want to go... was outright terrified, darting eyes, clammy sweat... because he was afraid of the "death panels". We literally had to go with him two people, sit with him all the way through, just to make him feel sure he wasn't gonna get some sedative to be carted off and have his organs harvested. Need I say, there are no death panels? And the hospital was literally the building right next door, so close you had to lean over to the window to see the roof. Just nuts that Americans have to live in such a state of fear, even terror I would say. That's not freedom to me. ✌😕
well, if he's a Republican, that explains everything. News stations in the US are not required by law to have factual reporting, so Fox News, the big Republican news channel, will literally make things up about how the things they ideologically oppose work - such as universal healthcare. Fox News literally tells people that countries with universal healthcare have "death panels" that decide whether people live or die, like something out of a scifi dystopia. Because if the government gets involved in healthcare, that means they will get involved in who lives or dies and they will have your life in their hands and that's how you lose your FREEDOM. This is what the free market protects you from!
they had a weirdass clip about old people being pushed off of cliffs as well, which according to them was an actual thing that free healthcare leads to, bc these people are too expensive to care for or something
Americans, they're a paradox to me: they claim they're the most free people on the planet, yet they're slaves to debt and fear...
I'm from Spain and have no idea what the death panels are???
And I come from a country which is the first in the world in organ donation. That saves so many lifes.
@@ladynym89 Americans think when they go to a foreigne country they will get kidnapped or someone will kill them and steal their organs, (death pannel would be a place they harvest your organs) just shows how dumb and closed minded they really are.
I'm British, so 7 euros for an ambulance seems expensive to me. I just spent two months in hospital, had groundbreaking surgery to save my foot and didn't have to pay anything. I now have to go to outpatient appointments three times a week. Transport in an ambulance is free.
It depends on the situation. If it's an emergancy, it's free. If it's just a precaution, it's an administative cost.
ambulance is free in the netherlands if it is an emergency. if not you pay 600 euros. but 99% of the time its an emergency though
@@metalvideos1961 You sure the 600 isnt limited to malevolent/prank calls?
7 euros? So is it like 100 USD per 1 Euro exchange rate?
I forget what it is, but we even have to pay if paramedic show up, but don't need to transport us to the hospital.
@@Rated314 Sadly it's 1.05 USD per 1 EUR, so even if we had dollars too, the US would still be paying hundreds or thousands of times more than Europeans. During the period of 2019/20 I had two ER visits, a stomach pumping procedure, IV painkillers, four or five blood exams, and two ultrasounds at a private clinic.
Our Health Ministry website shows you how much in taxes it costed to take care of me. The total was about 87 euro, or a little less than 90 USD. I can never understand people who say, "yeah but it's not free, it's paid by taxes", as if we didn't know how money works.
One thing I've noticed about us Americans is that we'll go to work sick (because hey- work requires WORK and can't be taking time off, y'know!), but here in Japanland, it's just the socially correct thing to do to *not* come to work because you'll spread the sickness to everyone else. And it's from that mindset that a lot of people wear masks (Covid-19 just expanded mask usage, so there was no push against using them) when they have the sniffles or allergies so they don't spread anything to anyone else if they sneeze.
US: Masks = Taking my freedumbs!!
Japan: Masks = Taking the people around you into consideration
The US has taken the individualistic notion a few ratchets too far. I think the loss of community spirit and notion of togetherness is being/has been lost and that's why there's no empathy towards others (Can't afford it? Pull yourself up by your bootstraps; On drugs? Stop buying them!). Everything's about MY MONAYS! Can't spend MY MONAYS on other people!!1! People don't realize that the overall health (mental & physical) would be better if everyone were more willing to help each other.
Americans are brainwashed starting in Kindergarten to not believe that empathy towards others on society level could be a good thing to have. To them, that's one of the most evil incarnations of socialism, outright communism, the worst danger to US-American society.
Yes, I have noticed that in Asia that it is the norm and not the exception to wear a mask. Even before Covid.
In the UK there are paths through all green land regardless of if they are owned by someone, the land has been there longer than the ownership and we are free to walk it xx
Same here in Germany. Bavarian law says: "All parts of the great outdoors, in particular forests, mountain pastures, rocky outcrops, deserted areas, fallow land, floodplains, shorelines and agriculturally used areas, can be entered by anyone free of charge."
"we are free to walk it"
If you visit the US, please remember to *not* do that. You could get shot. Private land ownership is taken very seriously - especially in rural areas. Most people are good people, but there are the occasional crazies that will take matters into their own hands.
@@michaelm.1947 Believe me, as a European let me humbly tell you that this sort of thing among many others represents the opposite of what you constantly claim, you're not as free as you'd think and your country, although beautiful in so many ways, seems like a giant factory of mentally deranged people to us.
There's a really good and brief video essay about how that came to be and how it also played a part in American gun culture: ua-cam.com/video/L1iQUF1gQmI/v-deo.html
Near us in Kent we have paths that must have existed since Roman times because the footpaths connect the locations of old buried Roman villas.
Hey, thanks for this video! As a german, I am blown away by how blown away you are about things that seem normal to us. Health care sure is a valuable thing, that makes our society better. I'd like to add that health care is not really for free, since everyone pays a certain percentage of their income every month as a kind of social tax. So, people who earn a lot pay a lot, and the ones who get sick get cared for, no matter what they earn. This a social system ❤
There's a mentality in the States that a social system like yours encourages laziness, which will discourage people from being responsible: having a job, paying taxes/bills, etc. The belief is that people will just sit at home and live off of other people's work and tax money. Regardless of how true it is, it is a pathological obsession with A LOT of Americans and most of our ridiculously punitive policies are designed to actively attack these people before they can do it.
@Theomite I totally believe that! In fact, many germans do have this mentality, too. This is mostly discussed in the context of unemployment payments. People complain that unemployed people get way too much money and that there's no reason for them to get back to work, as long as they're paid as much. There are studies that reveal that people are way more motivated to get educated and go to work if they don't have to care about money. And the fewest people are actually intrinsically lazy. I don't care if a handful of lazy people get paid for doing nothing, as long as many more people get chances to keep up and get educated and get out of unemployment soon.
@@Theomite hahahah and they try to prove their point on countries where the unemployment rate is around 3-4%!
Germany unemployment rate for 2021 was 3.54%, a 0.28% decline from 2020.
Germany unemployment rate for 2020 was 3.81%, a 0.67% increase from 2019.
Germany unemployment rate for 2019 was 3.14%, a 0.24% decline from 2018.
Germany unemployment rate for 2018 was 3.38%, a 0.37% decline from 2017.
Im Swedish, some years back i had very serious kidney stones, multiple stones and one that lodged wrong in my urethra. I had to have emergency surgery and spend 4 days in the hospital and had several post op checkups. I saw a similar video of an American discussing healthcare so i got curious and found an American site that did estimates for medical procedures, in the US (depending on state and region) my surgery and hospital visit would cost between 52,000 and 76,000 dollars, with over 30k just for the surgery. I paid about the equivolent og 15 dollars for the pain meds prescription. 0 for the hospital visit and surgery.
It's $19.20 today. An insane amount to charge people but OTOH if you are deemed not able to pay that it's still free.
The same Ur operation in Roumania its jait for free If u work and If u are from abroad just several euros
@Andrew_koala Surgeons live very well in europe too, my dad was a surgeon and he worked part in public heathcare system for all important/urgent/life operation and part in private clinic for all non vital surgery (mostly aesthetic). He was paid by social security on a state scale for all health operations and by his clients at his rate for aesthetic operations. But even in aesthetic operation some clients can have refund by social security (when it's kids, harelip treatement, socialy treatening aesthetic problems...). Only convenience cosmetic surgery is not refund by french social security and that was enough for him. I can't imagine him not operating someone for financial reasons, that would have blow his mind and the Hippocratic Oath he made as a medic student in his youth in hospital school.
@andrew_koala2974 money is important, nobody can deny it, but above a certain amount it doesn't make you happier. There are other things in life apart of work, like time to enjoy with family and friends, to have a hobby that has nothing to do with your job, to travel, to learn, to feel secure outside your house, to have a really good public transport and not to travel like at least 2h by car to go to work, etc. I feel like US society is very materialistic, workholic and lose the meaning of life.
@andrew_koala2974but on the other hand, she has to live in the USA, so swings and roundabouts. Besides, Australian surgeons get paid pretty well too, several hundred thousand dollars per year.
I work in a company dedicated to the export of medical devices, from face masks to magnetic resonance machines. Through my work I have made good friendships with our liaison in the United States. We have exactly the same job, he gets paid 6 times more than me, which at the beginning I am not going to lie, it made me feel bad. But then I found out that my colleague was in debt up to his eyebrows because of his student loan and his father's medical expenses, and the guy had another job to make up for it, it was very confusing to me. With my salary, which in the U.S. you would consider low, I'm finishing paying off my house, I have the car I like, I can afford the occasional treat. I am aware that I am very fortunate, but I still found the contrast appalling.
Yes! This amazes me too! Me and ny husband have a combined monthly net income of like 4000€ (it varies because he gets more for certain tasks he occasionally does) and we have three kids, a house, two dogs and a car. And our salaries aren't considered low. We survive on less because we don't have to take medical bills or crazy insurances or the kids' future education into consideration and therefor we don't need to have five thousand different savings accounts. I pay 17% in income tax, my husband like 28% I think. So we get A LOT for our tax money. Most of all we get peace of mind. 🇫🇮
@@lemonielala3080 to be fair you need to mention the 20% of social taxes on top like disability, health, retirement etc. for it to be comparable internationally. So about 30-50 percent of the gross income is taxed and redistributed or used for shared services.
In Germany in case you reach about 200k a year, the social taxes will not be counted on the income above a certain threshold. So technically, the richer you are income wise, the less taxes you pay. To have the higher income tax compensate for the missing social taxes, you need to reach somewhere around half a million a year.
I'm an older Brit. I've watched a few of your videos now and I think you've mostly managed to escape being messed up by America. Your comments are insightful, smart and compassionate. I think you would totally love living abroad and you'd cope just fine with the differences because you are so open minded and thoughtful. You should come to London! 🙂
Ask her about gun laws and she will tell you it's the person holding the gun, so her answer is give more good people guns and they won't have a problem, very American!
You should come to Denmark or one of the other Scandinavian countries…. I fully agree with domramsey… you would love it abroad… and thx for your videos, it really open my eyes of how good things are in Europe…. Here you can actually live your life even with less money… I really pity Americans having to fear getting ill and ending up in a hospital fearing how big the bill will get…. Health care abroad is free only in the U.S it’s not…
I live in Copenhagen Denmark… again thx for your videos you take up some interesting subjects… 🇩🇰
@@tomihribar52 it's a fallacy that it's free. You don't have to pay any bill, I know that as a Spanish person and we have universal healthcare, but we actually "pay" indirectly by paying taxes with our salaries. Of course, I don't care paying them even if I don't go to the doctor, because suddenly you know about a person who was diagnosed with cancer and that person doesnt have to pay for all the treatment thanks to our taxes and that makes me feel good.
@@Lindsay5846 You're right, it's insane American reasoning. One could apply the same logic to countries having nuclear bombs. Is the answer to give more countries the bomb so that they wont have a problem?
I'd advise her not to go anywhere near LONDON its an absolute CESSPIT now sadly..
When I moved to the US for a job on the first day I had to go to HR to finish up a couple contact related things. And one of the things were like "so you are getting 10 vacation days and 10 sick days, and while you have to take those vacation days in the given year, your can take over the sick days to the next year and so on", and I was like "I'm sorry, what are sick days?" And she replied "these are the days you can be sick and still be paid" I was very much confused about everything
Healthcare is still the most mind boggling part for me. At the age of 21, I already had my nose broken 5 times, my left wrist broken, one bone in the right hand also broken, had a surgery at the chest and probably spend half a year total in hospitals during my lifetime(28 atm). My fam would be broke if we hadn't access to universal healthcare. Just insane
Omg I'm glad you're okay!! Oof yeah the costs would have been bad for sure!
I had 6 concussions by the age of 11 (I was a reckless child) which requires MRI scans every time..god only knows how much that would’ve cost my mother if I did this in the US 💀
What the hell did you do to break so many bones???:D
@@nelo741 lemme say this.. I had a wild time - but things got calmer at the beginning of my twenty's
@@HailHeidi tyvm cuz I am! :)
I don't even wanna think about the costs lmao. My mom would have probably let another fam adopt me if we had to pay for this xD (or had to pay huge amounts)
The weirdest part about both the medical care and the homelessness problems is that, even as business-savvy as Americans generally are, they don't see those issues as a loss of tax payers. Same applies to education as well. Even ethical and social considerations aside, having a well-educated, healthy and stable populace makes sense for overall productivity's sake.
We had this situation in the 50s and 60s. The post-War boom created a massive educated workforce that outnumbered the uneducated low-skill low-wage workforce. Our economy wasn't designed to have such massive high-wage workers so employers created what Sir ken Robinson refers to as "academic inflation": a tightening of hiring criteria to exclude more people from the high-paying jobs. This is how extracurricular activities became so important in children's education: a company might look at 2 equally-qualified applicants and reject one because of a 0.5 difference in quantified skill sets.
It's all designed to reduce labor costs to virtual non-existence.
American business acumen is built on the backs of the lower class.
I worked in the US for 3 years and was in charge (hah) of an office of around 70 people. I was very shocked a week or two in when one of the girls came to my office to tell me ‘ I’m going to have a sick day on Thursday” - I thought ‘how do you know you’re going to be sick Thursday?’ Then I had a meet with HR who explained the use of ‘sick days’ - mind blown 🤯
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In 2017 I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a huge tumour that completely took over the left-hand side of my chest. As a result I had to go for radiation therapy in the city of Oxford, which was around 30 miles away from the town I live in (my town's hospital at that time didn't have a dedicated radiation therapy department, which it now does after successful fundraising of £3 million). I had to go for five days a week, for five weeks straight. Being that I cannot drive due to another medical condition, I was faced with the difficulty of travelling back and forth each day, and being on disability the cost of the bus fare for the entire five-week treatment would have cost more than what I was recieving a month in disability allowance. Fortunately thanks to the NHS they paid for me to get a taxi there and back every day. And it didn't cost me a penny. If I had been living in the USA not only would I not have any health insurance due to my other medical condition (which would have disqualified me due to it being a "pre-existing condition") but the cost of travelling by ambulance or taxi to another city/town to get the radiation treatment probably would have bankrupted me with huge amounts of debt. Nevermind the cost of the radiation therapy itself and later the surgery to remove the tumour and destroyed chest muscle!!
Every time I think to myself "man, I'd like to live in the USA, the country is physically beautiful and most of the people are lovely too" I remember stuff like this and realise there's absolutely _NO_ way I could ever afford to live there and remain healthy or ... alive.
Your health is THE most important thing. It’s universally important for all living humans and animals, and everyone. If you don’t have your health, nothing else matters. That is why America’s healthcare for profit system is so highlighted and mindboggling.
Well you know the old saying, sleep when you're dead.
9:50 we actually did call an ambulance when my friend twisted her ankle dancing at the club! Good thing we did because in the end it turned out to be broken. We had to wait for like half an hour though because obviously we weren't their top priority in the middle of the night. But in Austria it's actually smarter to call an ambulance when you get hurt because you get treated faster at the hospital compared to a walk in. If you end up getting a taxi, you can get the money back from the health insurance.
In Sweden we have "The freedom to roam" meaning you are legally allowed to hike and even camp wherever you want, even if Its private property.
There are some limitations obviously, you cant set up a tent in someones back yard, near government/military security classed objects etc but otherwise pretty much any where.
You have to move your tent once every 24 hours or you could get busted for squatting but that basically the only rule.
Now that's interesting! I am an American born and raised in the Western US; there is a lot of mountain land here that is illegal to even exist upon without permission, and especially illegal to camp on. That said, it's not common to get yelled at or arrested for trespassing, but it is strongly frowned upon and if somebody wanted to have you kicked off and/or ticketed for being on land that wasn't "yours" by the police? They absolutely could. One often observes huge properties that're fenced off with "no trespassing" signs posted everywhere... yet no one lives there, no one keeps property there, ect. Just open land with fences blocking it off. If you encountered the "owner", unless they carried the deed on their person, there would be no way they could prove to you that this was "their" land. Ridiculous.
Same thing in Finland. You're also allowed to pick berries and mushrooms and anything else that grows in the wild but not planted crops. You can use fallen branches for firewood but are not allowed to chop down trees (because they are property that has value), and so on.
Well there is 2 rules, the one you mentioned, then there is also do not disturb, do not destroy, inte störa, inte förstöra, leave it the way it was when you arrived. But that rule is so ingrained in us that we kinda forget it is a rule sometimes ^^
In my country we have something similar as well, with the exception that if the property's owner asks/tells/orders you to leave - you have to do so. You can also pick any wild plants as long as they are not protected by law for being under protection, you can't pick planted crops... because that's stealing.
I've seen quite a few american's react to this, and without fail, they just sit there in pure disappointment with their countries treatment of humans.
I am glad more and more american's look outwards and learn about the world abroad.
I met a bunch of Americans while I was living abroad. Only one of them that I met was actually getting to know other people from other countries. The others just stayed by themselves, not interested in spending time with us Europeans. And we were living in a country where English is the national language, too. My and friends' thoughts were like "why did you come to study abroad if you don't care about learning about other different cultures and people?". It was weird, but hey, not my loss.
Your reactions are really funny and cool Heidi. Really enjoying them!! As a guy from the UK, the first time I realized America was a little bit messed up was a story I saw of a Young American Lady, who was forced into hospital care and debt in America with a cluster headache. I can relate to this, because I wouldn't wish the pain that comes from one of these on my worst enemy. Its excruciatingly painful and likewise was forced into hospital in constant horrendous pain with one of these headaches, onto an IV and for head scans. I was told there's no real reason as to why they occur, they can just happen. Its actually a scary pain and even affected my speech after a few days. In the UK, My treatment and medication cost nothing. The American Lady's cost over 15000 dollars and debt to have one of these occur. Now that's a seriously sadistic kind of messed up. Also, always find it mindboggling that maternity/paternity leave isn't compulsory over in America when its very common knowledge the first year or 2 of an infants life is the most important, and USA will be one of leaders in the research of this fact no doubt. Anyway, loving the reactions Heidi!!
Everyone from Ireland knows the terror of being a teenager drinking and caught by the guards... nothing scarier than the pen and pad 🤣
That scene in HOT FUZZ still gives me chills, lol
I live in Wales, part of the UK. I’ve got Multiple Sclerosis, but fortunately as a UK citizen, my treatment is free (including seeing all the specialist staff). All my prescription drugs are free and my specialist medicines (a 3 times a week injection) is delivered to my door and the discarded needles bin is also picked up as and when. As I’ve said - all this is free (good job, I’d be broke trying to afford the meds)
I could not take the stress of living with the American system, and as I have a few friends who are American I think it’s a travesty that this is inflicted on the American people by über wealthy people trying to make even more money out of you!
My daughter also has MS and as an Australian all her support care is free also as well as her twice yearly drug infusion. It would cost $60,000 in the USA. Like you we pay about 1/3rd of the amount for our health care via our taxes as they do in the US. The difference is we don't go into bankruptcy if we get ill.
@@eddykate3700 Ironically, the best MS neurologist I ever had was head hunted from the NHS by an Australian company, to set up an MS clinic in Australia. His name is Mike Boggild - it would be an incredible coincidence if your daughter is seen by this man, wouldn’t it?!?
Me too…🇪🇸
@@eddykate3700 WRONG. There are Aussies who go bankrupt due to medical bills. I would guess fewer, but there are some. It is estimated over 10% of Australians go bankrupt due to ill health as per APH and ASIC. While AU does not keep detailed stats about bankruptcies, some of those that are filing for bankruptcy are due to quality of life procedures they are obtaining elsewhere (ie US, Canada, etc). That has even been shown on the news several times. Some of them are simply due to lost work due to being sick. Ambulatory is expensive in AU and has caused many to be in debt (I never have paid mine from many years ago). I would agree that US has the highest amount due to healthcare, but to claim AU has none is a flat out lie.
You possibly wouldn't be broke, more likely dead because you couldn't afford the medication.
The worst thing that could happen trespassing a field is having to move for a tractor or not getting offered some fresh vegetables (if the owners outside)😂 Greetings from Austria
Some years ago I was at a health conference in China and after one of the sessions a couple of US delegates were talking with us (New Zealanders) about the evils of our healthcare system being socialist and by some logic, bad. My friend asked would they like public schools closed along with ending health programmes for the elderly. Somehow these were not socialist (by what logic escapes me) and were quite ok. Good luck with any changes soon, and my genuine sympathy.
Many ‘Muricans in general needs to go back to school and learn what socialism actually is. ;-)
I'm an American and have had the same discussion with other Americans that don't like these "socialist" ideas. What about...
*Public libraries
*Police department
*Fire department
*Roads & infrastructure (generally paid by the state using everyone's taxes, so small rural areas benefit from taxes from larger cities)
*US Postal Service
*Medicare
*Farm subsidies (would rural farmers be ok with no hand-outs when times are rough?)
*Public schools
There's more, I'm sure, but the basic tenets of American daily life run off of socialism. God forbid we be SOCIAL to other people! So much MY MONAYS! and Mine Mine Mine!! in American attitudes. Some of my fellow Americans are embarrassing.
The one part that’s worth reading again is “good luck with any changes soon.” Because in fact there will likely very soon be changes - and not for the good. History tends to show that Republics don’t last long, and especially the Democratic form. We’ve had an “American experiment” here for what approx. 250 years or so, and by any standard it’s failing. The end of the Weimar Republic in Germany in 1933 had a dottering old man named Fritz as president who believed despite everything, including Hitler, “everything will be just fine.” Sound familiar?
They are brainwashed, from cold war. Slowly socializm is replaced by terrorist. In cold war times everything evil was socialism, now everything evil is terrorism. Its a tool that USA uses, and it has some side effects like not thinking straight. And some people are happy that theyr not thinking straight, who would want free health care? Only poor people thats for sure. Now when you make poor people think that free health care is a bad thing, man thats scary how easely people can be manipulated.
@@ZzaphodD Spot on, and while they're at it they could look up the meaning of "liberal", "patriot", "freedom" and also learn to differentiate between socialism and social policy.
It suprises me nobody mentioned the food quality difference! That was the first thing I noticed
Every time I find a new American UA-camr reacting to these TikTok’s I feel more and more sorry for everybody in that country 😔 I feel like you’re all stuck in a hopeless situation because the system over there is so fucked up…come live in the UK you’ll love it here 🇬🇧
No guns, no thanks. Brits are violent and don't like self-defense at all.
I second this 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
No Thank You. I would rather live in The Netherlands or France
@@kaydod3190 I think the invitation could be interpreted as come live in Europe. A place you're not likely to be shot and health care doesn't bankrupt you.
@@tompiper9276 UK ain’t Europe and not as beautiful as Europe. You can get shot and bankrupt anywhere in the world.
Hungarian here, and never been to the US.
I had a work opportunity a few years back to relocate to the US within the company, but failed due to some internal stuff.
Watching these video compilations and tiktoks, I am sometimes happy that I failed. I'm sure it's not universally as bad as it is mentioned with the guns for example, like there are better and worse areas within the states, it still seems surreal from an outside perspective.
Yes, there are many good parts to be sure. But that's like any third world. A real first world nation has ALL its districts doing well --not just the ones with the rich people.
Ugyanitt bojler eladó!
The gun situation depends on which areas of which cities you're in. A lot of gun violence is accidental or suicidal; most deliberate gun assaults are with unregistered weapons in violent areas. The demographics and politics of the areas have a lot to do with how it happens.
Every country has its bad or dangerous people, of course but in general, in most countries you don’t need to defend yourself. Events like that are extremely rare.
I have a story for you from Germany... My wife works at the local hospital and she told me about this guy... He lives quite a few miles out of town and is always broke. Every now and then, when he wants to go to the city center and can't afford a cab, he'd pretend to have some serious issues and call an ambulance (free service). Then, arriving at the hospital, he'd say that he is much better now and just leaves. This has happened a few times now.
Ohhh that's interesting. I guess that would be one downside.
@@HailHeidi also German here if something like this happens to often the dude could go to jail or at least be heavily fined for it.
German Paramedic here, and I encountered this kind of persons as well... I dont know how many patients I refused to drive to the hospital, because they are NOT in an emergency. I had patients who had literally nothing, for example a guy who had a scratch(literally a scratch, like from a paper cut!) in his finger and he lived 300-400m away from the hospital...and no me and my partner refused to bring him to the hospital and just said that he can take a taxi and that his finger wont fall off in the next hour.
This is one "downside" of our healthcare system, that we paramedics are sometimes used as a fast and cheap taxi and people dont realize that ambulances are for emergencies and not for people who "feeling a little bit ill" or "having a scratch".
If you live in germany and you are sick but not in an emergency and not be able to reach the next hospital on your own just call "116117", the number for a mobile doctor who will come to your home 24/7(for free lol).
But, but, but the ambulance ride, which is the only thing we had to pay for with my son costs €20 (in my state ). Emergency surgery, 3 night hospital stay, pt, meds, checks at the hospital every 4 weeks, final surgery to remove metal rods, post op checks and the only thing we paid for was the €20 ambulance ride.
@@blablamann2973 gibt es das häufig?
Lol that first one reminds me of when my American ex had to go see the doctor here in Belgium. A month or so later I got a letter in the mail saying they couldn't find any social security information for this person. There was a form to fill out their details, or just check the box "This person does is not on the social security system" (something or other). Checked that box, sent it back, and that was that. Never had to pay anything (apart from the required €5 at the doctor's office).
Here in Australia our health care (Medicare) is free per se....A small portion of our income tax is devoted to paying for Medicare, and you don't notice it. We have 4 weeks paid annual leave and 10 days paid sick leave, plus many public holidays.
Miss Heidi, Congratulations!! You're making America a better place. You have become part of the solution. You wanted to know. You were willing to know. And now that you know, you're letting other people know.
"I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better." Maya Angelou
Since there are so many health insurance related stories, there is another side to it as well which is the out of proportion cost in the US even if you don't have any insurance and pay in cash. I'm good at complicating things so as an Austrian living in Spain I managed hurting my knee really bad back in Austria without having any insurance there (the whole story how I managed to not have insurance at this point would cover two pages, it can be done if you're careless enough). So I had to go to the emergency room and pay out of pocket for an exam, X-ray, MRI and another consult with a doctor. The initial exam was free, the X-ray the same night was 80 euros, the MRI that I had to wait for for 10 days was 250 and the final consult with a doctor looking at my images was another 80 euros. So, it was a considerable amount of money I paid for being stupid but nothing that would keep me in debt for years. They also lent me some crutches for free...
In the UK, it wouldn't have cost anything..
I'm a Canadian who lived in Texas for 11 years ( 1989 - 2001, went home for two years ). In 1979 I dislocated my scapula 2cms. Two hours later I was on the operating table. Stayed at the hospital in QC for a day and had to return to get the two pins removed from my shoulder. Total cost was $ 5, which $ 3 was for paperwork. My wife is from MI. Four years ago when she lived in PA her husband got sick, he died two years ago. She lost her business and had to file for bankruptcy due to the medical costs. She also has a medical pre-condition. Me and my country will take care of my beautiful bride. She won't have to worry about medical costs ever again. Heidi, move to Canada and we'll take care of you and your babies. You won't have to worry either about filing for bankruptcy due to medical costs.
You should also react to ‘Why American healthcare is the worst in the developed world’ i think you would find it very interesting :)
Im amazed how many Americans don't know that medical care is free at the point of service in Europe and other Western countries. It seens their Politicians dont want them to know about it so keep it quiet.
I don't know of any other country where a serious illness could make you bankrupt. Also, even if you do have health insurance, there is still no guarantee that your insurers will cover every illness that you may suffer during your life. I'm just glad I don't live in America.
"Reimbursed as well?!"
Well yeah, in France we take care of our people. It's in our motto "Liberté, Égalité, FRATERNITÉ" (the upper case one means brotherhood basically).
She actually got reimbursed because she probably had some sort of malfunction with social security because we have something called "Tiers Payant" which means "Third Party Payment" basically, which means you just go to the hospital, get well, and the country is going to pay the hospital on your behalf. You won't even know how much was your stay in most cases because they won't even send you a bill or anything.
Also, we do that for homeless people for free as well obviously but basically for anyone.
If you want your mind blown even more, not giving medical care to someone in need in France is actually a felony that will get you jailed.
Not only will landowners in the UK not shoot you, but they are responsible for the upkeep of any footpath that crosses their land. There's around 150,000miles of public footpaths in the UK, plus bridle paths for horses and green lanes for vehicles. Btw, my car insurance is £200 per year.
Every person has the right to shoot invaders on the land. If you don't leave they have the right to neutralise you. You don't speak for all Brits...like me
Health care is free in majority of European countries. It is obligatory by law to hv paid holidays, paid time off for birth (mums & dads), regulated gun ownership, very few shootings and better education!
As an American who has by now lived in Asia (and Australia) for the last 12 years, there are SO many stories about this.
My cousin from CA lives in Australia. She had a YEAR off with pay when she had her 2 kids.
Many of our fellow Yanks have no idea. Just NO idea!
I often follow the vlogs of black people who move overseas and that's a huge eye opener as well. First thing they always mention is the peace of mind and safety you feel.
I must Say in Roumania Ur company whr u Work gives 2 years at home and the state pays money for the woman tonstay at home If the woman She doesnt work the men of he works he can take free 2 years from work to take care of kid and șo one
had a black kid here on a UK cop show car was getting lifted no insurance,
he vented to the camera such a pain the cops are polite and respecfull if i was in the US i would be face down wearing cuffs and wondering if i am going to be used as target practice, here all i have to worry is am i getting a signal to ask my mate to come and pick me up
In Germany, pepper spray does not actually fall under the Weapons Act. Provided that it bears the inscription: "To protect against animals". Similar terms are also allowed. If there is no designation as an animal repellent spray or a similar label on the packaging, the spray falls under the Weapons Act.
It occurs to me that pretty much everything people have mentioned is to do with reducing stress - more time off to rest & relax, less fear of illness/attack/finding yourself in reduced circumstances. I believe the gap would not be so huge if FDR had lived long enough to push through some changes in the immediate postwar period (it took the postwar mood in the UK to make it happen here)
Healthcare is the biggie, of course - my mother-in-law was on dialysis for years, which is not a cheap treatment at all, but we never had to pay anything. Sometimes people go too far the other way in their attitudes, and clog up the system with trivial complaints because it's free. I think people should be sent something like a bill showing what it cost the NHS - a kind of "here's what you didn't have to spend" - just so people appreciate it more.
Technically we do actually pay insurance (it's called National Insurance, and pays for healthcare, pensions, unemployment support, maternity leave, etc). The difference is that it's socialised. That means (a) people pay according to their ability based on income and the money is used to benefit whoever needs it, and (b) nobody is making a direct profit off it, so the incentive is to keep costs down rather than boost income. This is why we have a better healthcare system for much less money per capita.
Unfortunately the UK is currently sliding towards America. Parts of the NHS have already been privatised and other parts have been restructured to make it easier to sell off when the government can slip it past the voters. Pay and conditions for staff have been deteriorating for years; this is part of a deliberate policy to run the service down so there will be less resistance to privatisation. I'm really hoping the tide will turn in time.
I'm from Poland 🇵🇱 and when I watch video's like this one , I can't believe in your country government treating their own people's so bad ... normal thing's in Europe 🇪🇺 are unbelievable for Americans 😮 ... by the way you are beautiful 😊
I'm an European, and in July this year, I lost a dear American friend who couldn't afford insulin. So yeah, it makes me angry too that the American people don't have the rights to free healthcare funded by all the tax money you guys have to pay.
The homelessness “if they just stopped taking drugs” mentality is so broken. Even if you imagine for a second that a homeless person is on drugs, and decided to stop one morning, what are they going to do then? Have a shower and drive to work? They don’t have a job, don’t have a correspondence address or a smart set of clothes in order to get one, they don’t have a credit score (or address) to borrow the things they need, or a car or even money for a bus in order to get somewhere there might be an opportunity to step up somehow. What on Earth do you do to start getting out of that situation?? In their shoes I’d probably be overwhelmed by hopelessness, lie back down, and take some more drugs.
Getting them off drugs may be part of the solution, but active practical support is actually even more important.
Don't forget the typical comments on news about homeless people:
"If they gave him a job (last week), why is he still living on the streets?"
"He bought clothes (for $30) instead of a down payment on a house?!"
"If he didn't smoke (a pack of $4) he would have enough money for all the houses he could ever need!"
If those Tik Toks messed you up, this is really going to blow your mind:
I live i Denmark, and here education is not only free, the government actually pays you a monthly SU (stands for studen education support) of roughly 900 dollars to help you pay for rent and food while you study. This begins as soon as you turn 18 and continues until you are finished with your education, whatever level it might be.
Another example, this time about shootings in Denmark.
We recently had one of the most devestating shootings in the country where "only" three people were shot and killed. This happens so rarely that it sent the whole country into mourning and was breaking news for over a week. It even resulted in a massive gathering where the entire royal family visited, along with like 500 other people, to pay respect to victims and their families.
Well its not free, you will pay back with your taxes. The idea is simple, country invests in education, people with degree's earn more, so pay more taxes. And also its good for equality, because everyone has same opportunity to get good education.
But not all of it is given is it? Here in Norway its a similar amount I think (Im not a current student). But I think you get 60 or 40% of it, if you pass your exams. (Or eventually redo them to pass). And the rest is a student loan that you eventually have to start paying off.
@@Miamia_01 hi Marie. A small amount i taken in tax, so you get around 800 dollars in total. The tax amount is increased if you earn to much on a side job. Furthermore, there is a max amount og SU years, so as to stop People from exploiting the system. However it will never become a loan.
You can take an SU-loan whilst studying, which has an insanely low interest rate of like 4 percent yealy, and won't have to pay anything back while you're studying :)
Hope that cleared up a bit more
@@patrikkelhornskov so its the same as in Norway then it seems. Interesting:)
Or it seems you get more of it for free actually. Not sure what the amount is now but its not 800 usd for free. Maybe 500 and rest is loan, that you pay later with low interest.
About sickleave. I have ASD and ADD and had a major burnout and depression. So my boss said, get better first.Did not work for 2 years now. I get income from the state every month to be able to pay the bills.
Am finally starting to do better and really want to start working again. It is more money each month and sitting at home all day is not really fun either.
About weapons. I am 42 now and the only people I did see with a gun was the police. Never heard one being fired or seen one being fired, except on tv.
Same for knifes. Never seem someone carry one or worse, see someone being stabbed. The worst thing I did see was someone being punched. Maybe 2 or 3 times in my adult life. And did go out to the bar with friends a lot.
It is not perfect here, nowhere is, but at least have a lot less worries.
I'm from Israel, and was in the US a few times.
longest was for 10 months for flight school in Las Vegas.
I loved my time there, and I miss the food in the US more then anything. (Weird as that may sound)
Twice in that time I saw people shot and killed, and it felt very unsafe everywhere the entire time I was there.
Luckily I had no medical issues :P , but I paid about 100$ in Israel for Traveling insurance that covered any emergency or medical care for a year.
(with the option to be flown back home if needed, or if I became incapacitated for Any reason)
Our food is filled with sugar and other addictive additives, so that's no surprise.
But you're from Israel and seeing 2 separate shootings made you feel unsafe? Don't you guys live in fear of bombings and mass shootings in public every day?
@@Theomite well, I only saw one person die from street related violence once in my entire life in Israel....
and no, people don't walk around being scared of mass shootings, as those are a relatively new thing, and haven't really happened more then a couple of times.
and even then, they are nowhere near something like these school shootings that are happening in the US.
Military service is Mandatory in Israel, so you see soldiers everywhere, and they carry their rifles at all times.
those soldiers are part of every day life, they are your siblings, neighbors, highschool crush, and most people in the population.
you see some of them walking their brothers to school in the mornings while heading to base, or in any public transport.
meaning you have a lot of people with weapons around, but 90% of those are all Trained soldiers.
You cannot buy a weapon in Israel unless you did military service, and finished it.
if you were dishonorably discharged, or didn't serve, or have any mental or physical instabilities, you lose your ability to own a gun license.
meaning that about 85% of the population has been Gun trained, and will know how to operate a weapon if needed.
on the other hand in the US you have so many guns in circulation, yet 85% of people owning guns, have no gun training, and/or Should not have access to guns to begin with.
So yeah... I feel safer with guns around, when I know the people holding them are TRAINED, and they Respect the gun for what it is.
@@AdarColussi Well, what about the bombings? or was that more in the 90s and early '00s? Because we don't have those here yet.
@@Theomite really?
what about the Oklahoma City car bomb of the 90's?
and those were terrorist attacks.... or have you forgotten about 9/11?
and there's a whole long list of stuff like that in the US.
I think you should read more into your own history.
@@AdarColussi No, that was a legitimate question. When Americans think of Israeli citizens we tend to think of people dodging or planning for daily bombings in Tel Aviv (which is the only Israeli city we tend to know), but, like I said, that reputation might've been built from events of the 90s or early '00s, I don't know. That's why I was asking YOU.
in western Europe sick leave is quite extensive, but not so in Eastern Europe. In Czech Republic the first 3 days of sick leave are unpaid. Therefore many companies want to move jobs to Prague, and therefore Czech Republic has zero unemployment.
In Austria, maternity leave is 2 years, paid by the government social security. One of these years can be paternity leave. My cousin timed her children to have 4 years of maternity leave. The employer does not pay but has to keep the job open. So her employer had to get a temp for 4 years and then she went back to her job.
Here are two from "The New York Times": What Does U.S. Health Care Look Like Abroad? | NYT Opinion
What Do Europeans Think About American Life?
Just to add a little detail, England is the only part of the UK which has prescription charges. In Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland they are completely free for everyone. Also, pepper spray is also illegal here. You can't carry anything which is designed to be a weapon.
If you want some real eye opener check out "Why other countries treat their people so much better" from channel "Second Thought" and "David Cross: Why America Sucks at Everything" from channel "The Gravel Institute". But be warned, this is some shocking reality hammer for Americans.
Best wishes from Switzerland
I'm from Latvia, we have to have a doctor for every person, which is called a family doctor, to which you go if you get sick, the visit costs 2€. If there are serious health problems, there are 2 options, to pay for the necessary procedure without a queue and State aid, or to wait in line for state-paid or partially compensated ones. It depends on the procedure, sometimes it is better to wait in line, other times you simply pay and the insurance reimburses all or part of it
7 € for an ambulance?! Damn, I think its closer to 20 € here in Finland.
It's free in the UK. 😀
Having to pay anything like that small amount seem rather pointless. Just creates more bureaucracy. Here in Norway its free at least.
The annual out of pocket for health services is around 300 USD in 2022. A doctors appointment is about 31 USD which is counted towards the 300 limit.
It costs 14 dollars for an ambulance in Sweden, the same amount in euros.
It can be expensive here in Australia but you can pay about fifty bucks a year as a membership so it becomes free if you do have to use it.... if you don't have to use it you don't get your fifty back though :)
Free in Estonia for everybody, including foreigners and non-insured.
Although there are some kind of criteria for what they send ambulance .. mild headache probably does not count :)
I Dutch and yeah, if you’re sick go home till you’re better. There is no limit. But keep in mind that if you don’t have a permanent contract and you’re sick a lot, that wont do you any good for your job security. But I guess that makes sense as in that people won’t abuse the sick leave.
So this year I wasn’t feeling well. I still went to work because it was really busy at work. Got through monday, but tuesday I went home. Wanted to take 1-2 days off and get back to work because we had a lot of work to do. On wednesday I texted my supervisor that I still wasn’t feeling great, but I felt better and that I would be back on thursday He said; stay home and I will see you next week. I felt pressured because I didn’t want to leave my colleagues with all the work, but nice that I could take some rest, get well and get back to work on monday all better.
Americans finally waking up to reality due the availablity of the internet.
We love to see it. 😁
@@HailHeidi Do you really tho? :D now you probably consider moving across the pond haha.
LOL for reals. 😂
@@HailHeidienjoy the loss of freedom
12:45 at least in Finland if you are on a four week summer holiday and get sick, your absence is covered by sick leaver rather than annual leave or PTO. But the first 7 days are actual PTO, so this doesn't cover brief flew. More like if you get into a car crash and you aren't able to enjoy your leave.
Some years ago we travelled through Europe, and it just happened in Millau, France, that our son complained about earache and we were to fly back home in 3 days. We went to the pharmacy and the lovely pharmacist there spoke pretty good English, organised a visit to an English speaking doctor thee next morning, which was so nice of him😊 my son had an ear infection needing an antibiotic.
The doc visit cost was 7 euro, medicine 3 euro😮
4:38 No dear, they do not get what they deserve. If *you* had been born in their families, if you had experienced the abouse they experienced many times during childhood, you would most likely do the same. That thought of yours shows lack of empathy and understanding of the problem.
i am dutch. remember as well that sick days are paid. so you just get your regular salary paid even if you are sick.
8:00 I spend $110 a month on insurance. That covers my car and apartment and health insurance is not needed since health care cost me nothing. Canada. An ambulance cost about $35.
I am Norwegian. I am going to the hospital in two days. I am getting a CT with the contrast fluid to. That will cost me 26 USD. Spesialist and the normal family doctor cost between 20-37 dollars. Depend on what it is. And if you need to stay in the hospital that's free. Alot of meds are free, and the once you have to pay for are not expensive. And all you pay for doctors, alot of meds, physical therapy, CT, exray, MRI, mammogram, all that stuff get automatically added up for you, if you spend 291 dollars on all or any of that stuff you get all that stuff for free the rest of the year. It's to make sure that people who are sick or injured so they need alot of scans, doctors, physio, meds they don't have to pay more then 291
dollars in a year.
Speaking of sick days, I heard a story about a woman who was fired for taking too many sick days. She had been recovering from donating a kidney - a kidney she had donated to her boss, who then fired her.
if you are sik in germany you will receive continued payment of wages for 6 weeks, from the seventh week the health insurance company will continue to pay 80% of your salary until you are able to work again (in extreme cases),You pay 5 euros for medication on prescription (e.g. if there are 3 medications on the prescription, it is 15 euros, only for particularly expensive medication it is sometimes a little more than 7.50 or 8 euros for the special one) , Hospital stays cost 10-15 euros per day for food, at least that was the case when I was last in the hospital 10 years ago
So, I am a Swede whose best friend is American and one day we just ended up on the topic of emergency at school, and she and another friend who is also American explained to me how they had to do active shooter drills, I though they were pulling my leg, but no, they were dead serious about there being random active shooter drills. My fiance is also America and he talked about how he also had to do active shooter drills at school and I am here, in Sweden, doing fire drills and that's it.. I was just so shocked that this is a reality for people who are suppose to live in a first-world-developed-country.
Another discussion I had with my fiance and his family (their ethnicity are philippines) and they explained that to get a bank account or a passport they have to fill out their race.. that is such a new concept to me and they also told me how a white friend and my fiance's brother both apply for a passport at the same time, the white guy got it within a week, my fiances brother took over 2months, I am a white female and I just felt so disgusted and ashamed down to my bones and soul, even if I wasnt at fault and it kinda made me so mad how they were racially profiling them.
LOL - a few hundred years ago, you peeps left Europe (and other places) for good reasons ... now might be a good time to come back home ;-P
German here - let me add to this for you.
I've had bad health issues my whole life. In my childhood and teens I started having severe mental health issues (not going into detail); I had to get therapy (for a while even at a clinic for half a year) for _many_ years.
Going into my adult life, starting around age twenty, I grew very ill _physically_ that time around; more than once I was nearly dead and needed an ambulance and hospital stay, and no one really knew why. Eventually it turned out it was hyperthyroidism - which then needed constant medication...
... until it grew too bad, too potentially lethal, and I needed a prolonged quarantine stay at a specialist hospital to get my thyroid removed with radioiodine therapy (nuking the thyroid with radiation, hence quarantine).
Now, I need to take constant medication to substitute the hormones a thyroid would normally produce (since I don't have one). It's not the only medication I need either; I also need an inhaler every day for my asthma.
It doesn't end there though. The extreme physical weakness and regular pain I experienced for years due to this led to me developing severe pain avoidance habits, moving and exerting myself very little - making the physical weakness worse in turn.
What followed were many years of physiotherapy, as well as a lengthy stay at a top-end state of the art medical rehab facility.
It _still_ doesn't end here either, because over my twenties I developed new mental health problems; it's not autism, but the symptoms are spectrum symptoms (TL;DR: I have many problems that autists have, but the cause is a different one).
So last year I went through a lengthy diagnosis process at a renowned medical university in Munich, and am now about to begin an in-depth cognitive behavioral therapy program.
And to add onto _all_ of the above, all of this made me unable to work a job; I had one for a while when I was eighteen, but then my health got too bad, been unable to work since.
*_Right, so here's the plot twist your American mind is anticipating:_*
The _only thing_ - ever - of all of the above that doesn't come out of the _basic_ yearly insurance fee is the daily medications... which I restock every three-or-so months for eight-or-so bucks.
*_But SIKE, double plot twist:_*
As I am unable to work, I actually _don't need to pay_ that insurance fee; the state does it for me, and makes sure I have enough money to afford not just my apartment, utilities, food and so on - no, I also have enough to afford some hobbies and leisure products and activities every month.
I love watching this just to see the shock on peoples faces
The story at 15:15 is a surprise to me. In the UK you DO have to pay proper money for health care at a private hospital unless the NHS sent you there.
i broke my finger at work on 21st of november , ive been nearly 2 months on sick leave, and my traumatologist just extended my sick leave for 2 weeks, and i get paid 75% of my average pay every week. ( people might think, broken finger is a wuss thing, but well , not when your fingers muscles got torn ), and im also one of the people who actually hides beer can somewhere in public and sips it, because you can get fined quite a lot for drinking in public, but sometimes you just want to, when you are hungover.
Hi HailHeidi,
I'm from New Zealand. I'm here Just to say keep on the great work on your reacting videos. Also, you should edit a compilation video of all of the times that you have yawned in your past videos.
Watching your vids from Denmark Heidi, great information you are getting out to people
In norway you pay a TINY fee for anything medical related up to a maximum of ~300$ after that anything else is free, with some exceptions like treatments not approved by a goverment medical board. Often those are very new experimental treatments, or treatments with no clinically proven effects. And in those cases you can still apply to get it covered, its just not automatically covered.
In Latvia we have paid maternity leave for 12 months and if you want you can have 18months of paid maternity leave and emloyer must take you back to work after. Ough and 3rd trimester is a paid sick leave.
I'm 99% sure that "Swedish" home insurance is similar to what we have in Finland...
It doesn't include car insurance..
There is a car insurance for cars.. which is divided to mandatory traffic insurance,(which only pays for damage you cause)
and volunteer insurances..
full car insurance, covers all parties involved
, thieft and fire insurances for cars is also optional
home insurance only covers stuff happenings in your home..
. kinda like name hints...
Stuff like pet knocking over your TV, kids causing home to flood, or someone robbing your home..
When I was in Wilmington DE and Philly, it was common to walk the streets and see homeless people, needle caps, blood, etc.
8:50 a hundred a month? mine is about 20 per month, but it doesn't cover any damage to my own car if i crash, and I drive less than 5000 km (3000 miles) per year so there is a big discount. it does cover damage to 3rd parties, and in case i crash into a deer or a moose. and of course it covers any hospital bills, i think.
I'm Swedish and lets see 🤔
For one night in a hospital bed is about 10 USD. This includes 3 meals plus meals between meals like sandwich 🥪 . Also all doctor you console during your stay and depending how many days you stay.
To see a doctor is 30 USD. You don't need to pay when you are there, they send you the bill about a month after so you have gotten your payday from work so you have money to pay.
Myself I never have any money and always ask them to send me the bill.
We also have a limit how much it can cost per year.
Doctors visits are about 120 USD per year after that it's free.
Prescriptions are about 250 USD per year after that free.
So if you need meds that cost 250 USD the first time then if you need more they are free for a from the day you you started paying for it. Depends on how long it takes you to reach the limit.
1:43 sad part is that in the army they teach you to seek cover. Zigzag gets you killed.
France here. If it can gives you an idea for the health care, due to various medical problems, I had to see a doctor 4 times in a singular month, I did 3 blood check as well as a urinary check, an echography and had had 2 medicine prescription during this time. Feeling better right now, looking back I had to pay 110 euros in total for all of that, and I'm currently waiting for 80% of it to be reimbursed.
I'm austrian and have been working in portland (orgeon) for two months and the concept of sick days is something i really couldn't understand. I don't know if it's normal or just something my colleagues where doing, which would get you immediately fired elsewhere but they treated their unused sick days as paid vacation days 😂 like close to the end of the year they would call in sick if they had some left over sick days. would love to hear from someone in the US if thats a common practice.
In Poland You can spend up to 3 years in prison if you dont help someone in case of any situation when her/his life or health is in danger. Also you cannot be punished for any action during this help.
We have cpr traings in schools, work and of course during DL courses. It's realy help when you are in situation
That is true in the US as well. You can be fined IF you do not help someone when you have the training, or if you leave before appropriate paramedics or Dr's arrive. Nor can you be punished so long as you attempt to do your best.
The issue is, this is not the same in reverse for those in the medical industry. Paramedics, Dr's, nurses, etc can all be punished for actions when trying to help. Medical facilities carry liability insurance (and other insurance coverages) just for this sole reason, which is just on the many reasons that contributes to US higher healthcare costs.
i got CPR training when i was nine has 1st aid drills all adult life only time i used it took 4 mins for medics to arrive they looked at us said carry on you doing that right got set up then took over
I began my working life in the early 1970s, back in the stone age, the basic rate of tax then was 37% & those who paid most, proportionately, were single men. I was very well paid &, with National Insurance on top, paid about 45% of my earnings. I got pissed off with that pretty quickly & went self-employed. However, in 2008 I was diagnosed with leukaemia, the treatment I received was swift & exemplary. I felt so glad that I'd been born when I was & where I was, I can't begin to imagine what the financial cost of all my treatment was & is, continuing to this day. However, under the auspices of the wonderful NHS that is never a consideration, though that doesn't mean that I take the treatment I received for granted, I'm profoundly grateful for all that has & is being done for me. Thank God for the NHS & long may it flourish. That tax money was money very well spent.
The one thing that I never heard stated was the Tax rate they pay for the "free care". Most of the countries that are named are around 30% or more in taxes to the government. Nothing is free. You pay for it one way or another.
Exactly
Still a lot cheaper than having to sell your house.