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If you have to be told you are free, are you really free? If you don't have a 'free' healthcare system, should you be called a first world country?
Out of the western/developed countries, the US is the most corrupt
America will be soon a 3rd world country, the economic bubble is about to burst its just a matter of time. But they also do this here in the EU, its all on purpose done by Rome but not going into it now.
@@deliriouswhome1 which studies are that? Especially from which sources? In the western society are the olders ho are getting older in that system. The average live span in the US is much lower than in Europe, for example. And the system is not for free, we pay for it, just its coordinated by the government
@@deliriouswhome1 America's healthcare system is why most developed countries live longer than Americans.
@@deliriouswhome1 Depending on which studies you utilise- The US ranks between 46th and 52nd on world longevity. Edit US lifespans are actually getting shorter .
I'm an Aussie, living in Australia. My wife is American. I've experienced these fears from my wife for the 5 years. In her first week here, she almost freaked out because I took my bin to the kerb after dark. She insisted that she had to come with me. I thought she was just over reacting, but she was actually scared.
She is really blown away these days, 17 years later, at just how safe and peaceful Australia is. She earns really good money. Health care is free. Women are safe to walk the city at night, alone. She loves the wildlife, and the beautiful countryside. She is amazed at how clean Australia is and how good the roads are. She used to catch a train at 4.30 am, to work in Melbourne, two hours away. She would walk Melbourne streets at night, and return home by train at 8.30 at night. Yes, there were a few times she freaked out because she got scared, but it was just her American fears, and all for nothing. My wife is black, and hasn't experienced any racism at all. She never wants to go back to America, not even for a holiday.
So, I know how messed up Americans are, and how they have been fooled into thinking America is the greatest place on earth. According to my wife, it isn't even close.
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In Germany its the exact opposite. You can get sued for not helping. Its called "Unterlassene Hilfeleistung", google translates it with "Failure to provide assistance" but its actually really hard to translate. It basically means that you have to help however you can, without putting yourself in danger. Which includes for most people at least calling 911 or the German 112.
Part of making your divers license in Germany includes a first aid course. Meaning that in a car crash for instance, it can be that you are obligated to provide CPR.
In Germany you will never get sued for trying to help another person. You will definitely get sued for not doing anything at all, and you will go to prison if cought. Like ignoring a fainting person on the steet will get you in trouble.
Like I said, the least you can do is calling 911, which is also free in Germany.
France has a similar law, "non-assistance à une personne en danger".
@@nedludd7622 lol, I was about to say that! Crazy that american can get sued for saving someone's life...
Like that one scene with the man who jumped off a building in The Incredible
*AMERICANS NEED TO UNDERSTAND* they are in a controlling abusive relationship with their country, or to be more accurate - the top 5% of their country.
The gaslighting is horrific.
Dane here... That Healthcare stories made me cry a little bit. America's "you haven't worked hard enough (or inherited enough money) to deserve good health" is inhumane and immoral.
AMERICA IS THE GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD ! 💪💪
And then there's a lot of Americans saying that socialism is bad. Sure.
@@johnsmith-cw3wo It USED to be... and then the people started being ripped off by the money-making machine. Not that its YOUR fault...
Its run by Corporations and their Greed.
For instance... Why do McDonalds pay their workers in the US $8 hour and in McDonalds in other Countries $22 an hour... especially when McDonalds turns over 20 Billion each year?
Its about profits... not the people who hold that company together. by slaving away trying to survive on starvation wages
The Way that America treats the poorest people and the Homeless is absolutely Disgraceful
@@johnsmith-cw3wo It used to be... Check out the statistics on Google.
Its kinda shocking, to say the least... like we've been living on our laurals.
Twenty years ago, here in Oslo, I took an American tourist to the ER, and she said something about not being able to afford it, so I just told her not to worry, that I would get the bill. She looked at me in disbelief, but I convinced her it was alright. She later called me, crying and telling me it was the best thing that anyone had ever done for her. I didn't know much about America then, so I truly didn't understand. I remember it felt really uncomfortable to get that much praise for ten dollars. Heh, somewhere in America, there might be a woman who thinks that I'm extremely nice. :) It's just a year ago that I learned about people having to pay for ambulance. That had never occurred to me.
about 300$ max for healthcare for a year is nice
And ER visit here with insurance costs about 150-350 dollars just to check in WITH insurance. Without insurance if their nice they'll check to see if you're about to bleed to death and turn you away if you're not.
Hahahaha.
The average cost of an ambulance trip in California is about $750.
---they pick you up and take you to the nearest hospital.
The average cost of an emergency room visit is around $2,400 to $2,600 without insurance.
---you sit and wait for 2 hours then see a doctor for 15 minutes.
@@brusso456: That actually makes me angry. Just a very short while ago, I learned that you even have to pay to give birth. That made me feel sick. In this country, it used to be the law that if you failed to celebrate the birth of a child, you could get all your properties seized and be expelled from the nation. That's perhaps a bit on the extreme side, but still better than charging for birth. :)
Regarding CPR, in Poland actually we have opposite law, you have to help if you avoid it you may go to the jail.
Same in Germany and I'm pretty sure many european countries.
Same in France
I'm French, I'm 36, I've been sick almost all my life (2 long-term illnesses, from my 6 to 28 and from my 29 to 36) - I realize watching your videos that if i was born in the united states i would probably have died a long time ago. (Just for info: being sick, care, doctors for more than 25 years cost me exactly 0€ in France)
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Hi, Italian here 🇮🇹!
I knew about the "pledge of allegiance" to the flag, and I must say (forgive me for the tough statement I'm going to make) that reminds me of dictatorships like North Korea, former Nazi Germany, former fascist Italy and also former USSR (and countries alike, of course).
This chauvinistic sense of bowing to the flag, and the massive superiority complex that derives from it, is scary. Really scary. That's enforced nationalism.
You don't see stuff like this in almost all democracies around the Planet.
Peace ☮️
P.s: which is the greatest country in the world?
There isn't any....and never will be.
Hello! I absolutely agree, it's a really strange thing that the US does here, in my opinion.
@@HailHeidi you're a very humble and intelligent American girl, my friend!
There is no superiority complex about it, just love to your country and home.
@Is Syd I love being British but I'm not gonna kiss the union jack and pledge allegiance to it its just stupid
@@njtel1370 Maybe, maybe not. It's still not like you need to think that you are superior just because you are a patriot.
It's crazy hearing these stories from the U.S as someone from Denmark. Like you just hear random gunshots? That's completely alien to me. I've never heard a gun go off (apart from on screen) in my entire life. In fact, I don't even personally know anyone who owns a gun. It's a weird thought. I never had a problem going to the doctor. Ever. Pretty much everday students in my class just tell the teacher they have a doctor's appointment at 12 o'clock or whatever to get a sore throat checked out or just to pick up medication.
I've heard a gun go off multiple times. Although, admittedly, decades ago. During my 15 months of mandatory military service. ;-) (One time I even forgot my ear plugs… which can be *very* bad for your hearing, but I somehow got lucky, didn't get an acoustic trauma (TIL what "Knalltrauma" is in English ;-))
i guess you live in a city.... which is fine :) as someone more rural living in Denmark, I have seen my share of guns. and know quite a few people that own guns. I myself also own guns and quite a few at that... but only for Shooting on range or hunting. there is a surprising amount of guns in Denmark.. but people are very professional about handling and being around guns here.. also helps we have some rather strict laws on how to get permission to own guns. If handled correctly they are no issue, they are a tool like any other.
I regually here guns going of here in sweden (that i live close by a military base with active shooting ranges probably is the reason for that, they train most if not all the swedish UN troops here aswell) but outside of military training i dont think i have heard a shot fired "in real life"
I'm in Sweden and my dad bought a really cheap BB gun at a garage sale when I was a kid. We fired that a couple of times in the backyard before it broke. Not sure I've heard any type of gun since.
If you're in the hunter communities you'll probably hear a lot gunshots(shooting range mostly) and more often protect your ears from it.
Swiss here! I'm shocked by the flag thing and the health care, and especially shotgun noise. In Switzerland, 1 out of 4 people have guns, yet I have never even heard the noise of a shotgun in my life. I have often went to doctors for simply having low-grade migraines or so, the flag thing actually scares me, I am weirded out by this country.
Czech here, also LOTS of guns here. And i live in country so i do hear shotguns often, because of hunters and such. But never have i heard a gunshot, no matter where in the country and felt like i was in danger.
I can guarantee 99% of Brits have never seen a handgun , nor a rifle or shotgun ,, ,and most certainly never shot one .
But America is surely the best comedy sitcom out there…
I live in the US most people haven't had an experience with guns. Me personally I've only heard them at shooting ranges
My grandpa has been a hunter since way before and after I was born (swed). We often visited him and they let us (sister and I) play largely unsupervised. I genuinely forgot that there was guns in that house until he moved a couple years ago (when I was 20-21) and mom mentioned her and her siblings going over to help him move the storage locker (for the hunting gear). Up until that point, even though I knew he's a hunter and owned guns, the thought that there were real weapons in that house somewhere genuinely never even crossed my mind. No one ever made a big deal about it, never showed them off to us, never even showed us where the locker is (to this day im not even sure what it looks like) and we never questioned it, never felt unsafe and never felt the need to ask about it.
The only time I was remember seeing a gun irl was in school (wanna say maybe around 4th grade?) when a couple officers came to hold a presentation/lecture to the older kids (safety or drug PSA or something I guess). We were all having lunch in the cafeteria and the officers sat down to eat at a nearby table. Being curious little kids, in awe of meeting cops for the first time, a handfull of us started asking questions like "Are u real cops? How many bad guys have you stopped? Did you drive a police car here??" and of course "Do you actually have a gun?" and "Can we see it?". The officers were really kind and entertained our questions and when it came to the question of showing the guns they explained they're not gonna pull out a gun in a crowded cafeteria full of kids as it could cause a stir but they did show it holstered and that was enough to satisfy our curiosity. Thinking back on it now I'm actually not sure it was even a real gun as it wouldnt make sense for cops (here) to keep a functioning gun on them in a school, so maybe what we saw was actually a tazer gun or something similar but who knows.
I have a child (who's now 14) who has had two hernia surgeries, and a distal femoral osteotmy somewhat recently. I've had in the last six months, three specialist appointments, an ecg, a 24 hour ecg, a ct scan, an mri, a heart ultrasound, xrays, blood tests etc. And my bill at the end was 0$ other than the taxes that I'm already used to paying to rule things out. (Im Canadian btw)
Hope everyone is taking care.
A Canadian medical story. My wife needed heart surgery and she went to Toronto to be operated on by a world famous heart surgeon who had invented the valve repair procedure she was about to receive. She spent five days in the ICU afterward as her case was a bit more difficult than the average. The total cost to us? My parking and lunches at the hospital.
Yes and if you are anything like Australians you probably complained about paying for parking lol
@@meredith18352 Hell ya! It was $23.00 a day in downtown Toronto! Outrageous!
(not really)
I'm french and lived in Canada for a while, I really found your healthcare to be lacking a lot, and THEN found out it was actually very good compared to the US.
I was flabberghasted.
@@lisamartin9831 Americans are taught to believe that their healthcare system is the best in the world, when in fact it is way down the list of healthcare systems in the world. This propaganda effort dilutes any attempt to improve it, after all why fix the best?
@@meredith18352 same as the UK too 😉
You are the only country that has regular shooters, the UK and Australia both had one incident of a mass shooting and both countries voluntarily gave up their guns to have the highly regulated so that it never happened again, people walked into their local police station and handed them in. That's the difference in our society's
There were at least two in the UK - Hungerford and Dunblane. Also, shooters didn't give up their guns voluntarily per se, laws were passed that meant they had no option other than to hand them in.. After Hungerford, a law was passed banning semi-automatic weapons. After Dunblane, handguns were banned. Shooters were financially compensated for the weapons they handed in. There are a few exceptions where it is still allowed to own either a semi automatic rifle or a handgun, but it is highly regulated, as it should be.
@@Sorarse *_"highly regulated"_* ... isn't that in the same sentence in the amendment that us americans love to recite when they demand the right to carry weapons ?
@@Anson_AKB All I know is that it is a lot, lot easier to purchase a gun in the US than it is in the UK.
@@Anson_AKB Second Amendment refers to "A well regulated Militia".
the old ‘bombing for peace is like fucking for virginity’
Irish person here 👋 my husbands friend married an American. When they had their first child here in Ireland her family and friends back in America were in shock that she got 6 months paid leave from work, a few of them did not believe her! 😂
In Bulgaria is 1 year
In Romania 2 years paid maternity leave
*HERE IN BULGARIA* the school security we have on the open doors of the schools are beaded curtains to keep the flies out cos thats the biggest worry the kids have here.
And as the schools are all distributed and therefore local to you, the older kids walk the younger ones to school
bugariiiii aaaaaaa zlatni pjasciiii aaaaa
@@mezmerizer9422You got to help me - is that Croatian, Romanian...?
Zlatni has to be gold but I have no idea what pjasci is
@@piccalillipit9211 he means златни пясъци ....
1:05 Yeah something similar to that pledge of allegience thing happened here in Germany as well. Wanna guess which 12-year time period that was?
Same in Romania,it was during the dictatorship of Ceausescu.We had to stand up and sing the anthem every morning....Nowdays if someone would tell to the youngs to do that...they would think that person have mental issues or is on drugs......
Exactly, it's amazing that American can't tell that what they think is patriotic is in fact borderline fascist.
You can love your country and not necessarily be a nationalist !!! What is the point of the pledge of allegiance ? I really don't understand. I love my country, France, but even if we French are maybe pretentious I know my country is not the only one in the world ! I love so many other countries because they are different, and I love the USA that I visited twice, but I will never understand this 'overnationalism' ! This have already led to great pain and suffering here in Europe. It could be helpful to learn from it...
Think about this…why would people calling themselves Christians pledging a flag? I’ve always wanted to ask others clinging to both. It’s not biblical to pledge a flag.
@@t.l.c7481 Yeah, I never understood which part of "My kingdom is not from this world" they don't get.
I would not say we don't have shootings in Germany. We have one of the highest gun ownership per capita in Europe after all. But to illustrate how rare they are a story:
One day 15 years back i heard a strange loud "pop" while working in the garden. Had no idea what is was never heard it before. The next day, there was a half page article on the second page of our newspaper, explaining that a boy stole the keys to the ammunition and gun safe from his father, got a gun, loaded a round and shot it in the air to impress his friends. His father lost his gun license and had to sell all his guns.
My favourite stories is still that in _one_ shootout between the police and some criminals in Chicago, the cops used more ammunition _than the entire German police force throughout the entire year_ 🤪
@@Wolf-ln1ml they use a lot of bullets just for 1 criminal
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@@Wolf-ln1ml This just demonstrates a lamentable level of accuracy.
@@Wolf-ln1ml I weird that they don't have special ammunitions that spread gat to get it in sleep. But is to note that there is such thing as a problem with guns in America. The problem only exists in places of America where guns aren't allowed. And yes there will be more crimes with guns (even it will have less deaths and criminality than otherwise) in the statistics overall, but (1) police will only need a handgun to carry, and (2) otherwise you will live in a Police state. Like the Dictatorial states of Europe than are falling in a deeper dictatorship everyday like today you have no rights to freedom of opinion, because if you oppose the establishment you get arrested by dissidence charges of „Hate Speech“.
As a Canadian i took a trip for 5 days to the states. And right after crossing the border I stood out like a sore thumb, and that is when it started " your not from around hear?" and the Farther south i went, only got more often. It made me feel exotic, and to alot of americans i was. Before i left i felt that we were more alike.... But after this trip, i know we are very very different.
I am 41 and I never heard a gunshot oder pistolshot in my life (aside from films ...etc). The city I live in has more than 2 million people.
Greetings from Austria
I'm swedish and when you mentioned that literally being born in the US comes with a bill my heart hurt. Especially with the over turning of roe v wade, and knowing politics over there don't favor those in need. Just seems so dystopian to me. No country on earth can promise you luck and wellness, but there are surely those who give you a better base for achieving it.
Bernie sanders tried to fix the healthcare because insurance companies make healthcare expensive but then trump won
It's so bad in the US only two and one half million people entered the US illegally last year at the southern border alone.
I just can't understand why they want to come here and punish themselves so bad.
Why don't they go to Sweden or Denmark or Canada or UK where all the free healthcare is.
The answer is simple, no matter how bad you hate the United States we are still known as the most generous country on the planet.
I am sorry they can't kill unborn babies anymore.
I know right its insane
Sweden is very great when it come to being born if not my family whould aford to get me
My Murican Mate (his own description) was visiting Finland years ago and pretty much that was on the video came up and he had hard time believing any of it. On sunday morning he was a bit hungover and readied himself for church - where nobody else was going and we were totally unprepared for it. Luckily he was just conditioned to it and more than happily spent lazy sunday. One more thing was that he was shocked how many of us had gone through military training and how willing we are to fight possibly invasion from the east.
Speaking of hospital bills, I fainted last week and the hospital kept me overnight for monitoring. Anyway, it turns out that my blood sugar plummeted, I have iron deficiency blah blah blah, did tests for this and that... I told my friends in discord, they're mostly from the US, and they all freaked out. Not about my health or anything, but about my hospital bills. I'm like... What? Why? I paid almost nothing and I'm even getting reimbursed for the little I paid. They were just mind blown...
Love seeing this! Keep educating yourself, don't stop here. There is so much more to learn about the world. It's time for American people to wake up and start fighting for the right reasons.. Instead of bickering at each other like your government wants you to do.
Absolutely agree. Thank you! 💜
imagine thinking your more free ,paying taxes toward universal healthcare.
I swear people are delusional,and product of indoctrination.
What you really mean ,is America's should automatically support the political policies ,your indoctrinated to push.
You can't make this sht up..🤣
@@RooK085 insults,don't work on me.
Try making an actual rebuttal to my comment ,instead of being triggered over facts.
No one's perfect ,so do not virtual signal bullshit my way.
What did I say that was incorrect ,let's start there.
@@deliriouswhome1 OK, here goes.. What is the difference in having the government taking a little bit more from your paycheck in taxes or having the money transfered to your bank account which you then transfer to your health care company? I pay 70 euros a year for health care that covers everything. Yes I pay more than that officially. But I don't feel it because that money never hits my bank account.. When my wife gave birth to our daughter, she was in the hospital for 6 days. We paid about 900 euros for that and were reimbursed about 750 euros 3 weeks later. Shortly after that we received a letter from our health care company that we could buy a medium quality (imo) stroller and a maxi coasy at a 70% discount. I have to admit it's hilarious you even dare to use the word indoctrination, while you're the type of American that is stuck in the box.
@@RooK085 nothing about my comment was about universal healthcare..try again.
Well not directly at least...
Your so indoctrinated that you automatically arguing a political policy .. 😆
Assumption don't mean shit, so don't pretend like you know me while discriminating because of nationality.
Let's make political ideology a reason to create hate and the virtual signal,how we're better than each other..
And you don't think your indoctrinated..
I have two kids, and when I heard the mention of healthcare and having kids, the concept of having my kids and being unable to afford getting them quality help if they were hurt or injured really struck me, and I genuinely had a moment of panic as the idea sunk in.
Thankfully, I'm an Aussie, and don't have to deal with this as my reality. Didn't expect to get the reverse feels.
Yeah, American here. I went to the doc in December because my right ear and jaw were hurting, so I thought I had a bad ear infection. Doc told me no, you have arthritis of the jaw. I paid my $30 copay and left. A few weeks later, I get a bill for $226 for the office visit because my insurance doesn't cover anything to do with jaws, so they denied the visit. I was supposed to have a follow up visit tomorrow, but I canceled it because I can't afford to pay another $256 just for a doc to look at me again to make sure I'm okay. I will just have to hope for the best. I only took the meds he prescribed until the pain stopped to avoid any possible bad reactions, so I'll probably be fine, but yes in the US one cannot afford to go to the doctor whenever there's a problem. Whether you have the money to pay to see them comes first.
The American healthcare just blows my mind. On Monday I had surgery to remove a mole that could potentially cause health issues. I had an appointment at 9:30 in the morning so I walked in and gave the receptionist a note from my doctor along with my EU insurance card. I sat down and five minutes later I was on the operating table and another ten to fifteen minutes later I was done. The doctor and nurse said goodbye and walked out with my insurance covering everything. In two weeks I can just walk in to get my stitches removed and pick up my test results.
lol I love the guy's description "there are more guns than fresh vegetables in peoples homes" that's funny and scary.
And not true
I’m a big walker and I love to walk in the countryside every day. When I lived in the US the thing I instantly noticed were the no trespassing signs EVERYWHERE! On the UK we have a system of public footpaths which means you pretty much have access to walk anywhere. They cross farmland and forests follow rivers and cross hills, everywhere. On top of that, there is no actual criminal trespass law. Even if you stray onto peoples’ private land, as long as you don’t damage anything you can’t be arrested or anything
Trying to find somewhere just to go for a walk in the US, I’ve never felt LESS free
Because they think you will burn the property so thats why they warn you and a lot of people do warn me
In Sweden, we have free roaming laws. Meaning you can go anywhere as long as it's not like in peoples backyards or farmland. You wanna go camping in the woods somewhere, even if it's private land. Go right ahead. You can pick berries, mushrooms, cook food, whatever. The rule is you must leave everything in the same condition it was when you got there. Seems we're pretty much the same then.
@@SilverionX yes. We don’t have the full right to roam in England and Wales, only Scotland. But the footpath network means we have wide ranging access on farmland, country estates, even in some cases through peoples’ gardens believe it or not (that can be a little uncomfortable TBH), which is just as well because we have far less wild land that you are lucky enough to have in Sweden.
@@clareshaughnessy2745 It's a blessing and a curse. You won't feel as lucky when a 500 kilo moose rushes onto the highway and you're driving at 100 km an hour. :P
We have the same free roaming laws here in Finland that Sweden and Norway has. Forrests are complitely available for anyone to walk in. But even the private non residential areas are pretty relaxed about people passing by. I go to a walk in a forrest near by a few times a week and the shortest way there is through a storage lot of the local electric/heating company. Right now it's filling up with wood that they will burn and there is a sign that prohibites loitering in the area and warns about tree piles falling. But next to the sign is a path that people use regularely when going through the lot between the huge piles of wood. And no one cares, I have never been told not to walk there even when there has been some workers present. The sign is there to warn people and not really to stop people.
I live in Indonesia, classified as 3rd world country.
We have national health insurance, called BPJS Kesehatan, that individuals pay about 15 usd a month per person and this covers all ilnnesses through referral system (so you go to your first clinic to check then referred to specialist in bigger hospital and so on) unless it is emergency (you can go to public hospital ER and immediately got seen regardless residence). Currently BPJS Kes covers 95% of Indonesians.
There are also private insurance, but all those with private insurance also still pay mandatory BPJS.
Almost everyone I know, even with private insurance, use BPJS when down with cancer, or chronic such as diabetes or heart related problem or needing complex surgeries. Because all is covered.
My late uncle had 3 cancel-related surgeries, months of chemo, all paid nothing except the 15 usd a month.
Also to add: we have strict gun law. Only authorities or those passsing strict procedures to own a gun. I never hear gun shots in my 46 years of existence here. I only know 1 person with gun license and he belongs to Indonesia national rifle shooting team, and he said it took him months to get a license to store his gun at home. And he is an athlete.
Just came across your channel absolutely loving your UK reactions 🇬🇧 much respect Birmingham UK ✌️🤓.
Since I turned 30 I started questioning a lot of things. Among these things I tried to answer the question "what does it really means to be free?". After serious reasoning I cam up with the solution that being free means to have the certainty that I will not be let down and looked upon if I ever get sick or hurt.
That's it, simple as that.
The more I grow up, the more I am grateful to be Italian, even if this country has issues and it's messed in its own ways.
Ci aggiungerei anche la libertà di girare per strada senza la paura di morire in una sparatoria e la libertà di mandare i figli a scuola senza l'ansia che qualcuno entri e li ammazzi...
Hanno fatto una statistica dal 1/1/2009 al 21 maggio del 2018 (quando è stata fatta la statistica) in Italia ci sono state ben 0 sparatorie nelle scuole, in Canada 2, in Germania 1, in Francia 2, in Giappone 0 e in UK 0... Nel frattempo negli USA ce ne sono state solo 288... 288!! Più di 3 volte il resto del mondo sommato... Boh, per me son matti da legare...
As an Australian I'd choose Italy in preference to the USA, No country is perfect (I've lived in 5) but The USA is the only one where I was offered redundancy and a job and turned it down. I didn't want my children growing up there.
You, and other Americans doing these kind of reaction videos, are doing something very important. You are opening the eyes of your fellow Americans. That can have a positive effect in the long run.
Bernie Sanders said insurance companies made healthcare expensive so bernie was trying until trump won
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Communism
You can vote your way in, but you fight your way out.
@@CM-ve1bz lol what ???
@@tibor1234
You are just what the communists are looking for. You apparently are too stupid to know the difference.
@@CM-ve1bz Taking care of the people in a country and making sure everyone has health care is not communism. Almost every country in the world has this in one form or another.
The ER, medicine, hospital stuff always get me..
I crushed my heel in November.. I've spent about the weeks in hospital, several x-rays both regular and MRI, had 4 different casts, had operation where they put screws and a plate in my heel and haven't worked a full day (about weeks with no work at all and now I've gone gradually up to 50% work/day), still using crutches and eating pain-killers and I probably won't be back to my full self for AT LEAST another year...
I still get 80% of my paycheck and all my hospital and medicine bills since the accident are well below 500 USD TOTAL..
I live in Sweden..
That includes my stay at the hospital including all meals there..
this is a must watch
Reminds me of a lot of the same king of thing I told an American friend before he moved to the UK with his family. It cracks me up that 5 years on he still gets amazed by the free health care and mandatory vacation days.
I couldn't even imagine. That's so cool you got to see that happen for him!
@@HailHeidi 1,000 USD for 1 year and get free healthcare. Why is it so cheap because the insurance company is not privately owned but owned by the state. because the destination country company is not looking for profit but fulfilling the rights of citizens first and then looking for profit
@@carkawalakhatulistiwa What does your
insurance company do.?
Make profits ?
It's not free. We pay through taxes.
@@HailHeidi my friends left uk because its expensive
Hi Heidi from the UK. Just to put the whole unarmed cops thing into perspective. In 2020, we had 35 firearm related homicides here in the UK, its hard for us to track suicides by firearm as they are so few they are just labelled as 'Other' in most data, but estimates are around the 60-70 mark. In the US during the same period there were 45,222 firearm related deaths, of which 19,384 were homicides. Guns just aren't an everyday issue here.
You can shout that message as loud as possible to Americans and they won't care. Their love of guns is everything to them.
I used to know a Heidi from Windsor. I think she was named after a TV programme.
The gun lovers don't even take suicide into account. They never really think about how suicide attempts are much deadlier if your method of choice is a gun to the head. Almost always takes you out instantly while other methods have a much higher failure rate at actually killing you or better success rate at bringing you back. Also let's not forget how much easier it is to kill yourself quickly with a gun due to impulsive behavior. Thats why it's so important to put the suicide numbers into the gun death statistics.
@@jacobreisser8034 but denmark has more guns
Yes we love our guns here in the United States, we even like our military being the strongest in the world, and the next time the Germans are kicking in your door, call France.
Yeah, but to add a little perspective, the UK population as of 2021 is 67.33 million people, the population of the US as of 2021 is 331.9 million, almost 5 times the population of the UK and that population in the US doesn't take into effect all of the illegals living there. It's is still an unreasonable number of deaths, i agree, but there other factors at play in the US as well, other than just guns....
I love hearing these. As someone who spent half her life living in Europe and currently in US, I have so many similar stories. But also I will say, there is a big difference between being a tourist abroad and actually living there. One thing people don't do abroad is give hugs when they see each other. So when i go back to Europe to visit and i give hugs to people I know, I say I'm American, we give hugs, and they find it hilarious.
Yeah I think Europeans are less on open affection like that. That's something that really shocked me when I lived in the US, how people were friendly with everyone, but at the same time I found it really hard to actually make real friendships, instead of surface ones.
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In Slovakia (central Europe), we don't hug each other, maybe only family and very close friends, but when someone asks "How are you?", it's not just a stupid phrase, but they are really interested in "HOW ARE YOU".. America is a beautiful country with many wonderful things, but what I would never get used to would be hypocrisy when dealing with other people, whom you don't care about at all, but you immediately pretend to be their best friend..
And as far as healthcare is concerned, I have had months of difficult treatment, about 15 operations, months of treatment in rehabilitation institutions.. As for mothers with children, every mother and born child has exact dates when they need to go to the doctor, vaccination etc., etc... and how much did I pay? It would like to say ZERO, but since nothing is free, something is - mandatory health insurance, approx. a few tens of Euro (dollar is the same value) per month, deducted from salary.
Greetings from Slovakia
South europe have no problem with hugs and kisses. In Italy is not rare to see 2 good guy friends kissing each other in the cheek
Why don't you go back to europe because clearly everything is perfect in europe to the point that it would be like hell living in the US... or maybe everybody is just full of sh*t
@@pistahufnagel7183 you live in a poor country and your taxes are much higher than the US. You don't have free healthcare because nothing is free and you'd have to be beyond stupid to assume otherwise. Get a grip on reality.
When you giggled at the guy getting emotional about guns… that’s the rest of the world. … I love that guy so much. Love your channel. Keep on keepin on.
Having a child should not cost anything anywhere in the world. That newborn child is a future taxpayer and therefore an important citizen.
that tiktok series really opened my eyes to the stuff Americans put up with. The cost of medical care and the gun violence thing is as unimaginable for non americans as it is for americans to understand how a non issue it is elsewhere
and now there is this whole thing about not having access to contraceptives too. Truly maddening.
@@lisamartin9831 Ikr! My own country (the Philippines - which is often widely considered to be a "conservative, Catholic country") literally sells birth control pills over the counter in all the major drug stores (I know this from experience)! 🤣🙈
Thank you for the wake up call! It is a reminder to be grateful, and not take things for granted. 😊👍
there was one shooting in Vienna Austria some years ago. I was in the tram on my way home, when it happened. At first everyone though it was just some teens throwing firecrackers until we saw people running.
Something like that is so rare, that it was the first time in my 20 years I heard real gunshots. Noone in austria would assume gunsshots first, when they here a bang.
Some context on police shootings, there was a US TV report in 2016. The month before the report aired there had been 111 police shootings. Then they compared it to the UK, here we'd had 52 shootings in 100years, from 1900 to 2000.
Just unbelievable. 😔
for UK was that really shootings or just use of a gun in general (like warning shots)?
a few years ago, i saw a video (i don't know to which year that referred) about some americans coming to germany to see differences in police work. they were told that there were 82 shots fired. after asking for details, it was clarified that that number didn't apply to that town, or the current week or month, but to the entire country (with a quarter of the population of the usa) for the entire year, and that it was not the number of shootings but the number of shots/bullets.
In my country, not only you are not paying anything for giving birth, you actually get money from the government for giving birth ;-). Plus of course 6 month of full pay maternity leave, plus additional up to 4 year of parents leave (either the mother or the father can take this) with the government supporting you financially. And your employer has to guarantee your job, if you wish to comeback to work for them within 3 years after the child was born.. Welcome to Europe ;-)
I am just blown away by that! 💜
I understand how you would be ;-). But it is quite normal in Europe and other countries around the world. I think USA is one o free few countries who do not support new mothers, which is really sad. You guys should fight back your government for your rights;-)!!!
What contury are you talking about? Romania here, we have only 2 years or maternal/ paternal leave,the birth payment,but also a monthly payment of 120 euro for each child til they get 18 years old
I am from Czech Republic. We have I think very similar system to yours: there are monthly payments for each child until they finish their studies, or they reach 26 years of age (whichever comes first counts) :-). And you get tax cuts for children as well. The paternity/maternity leave payments are a bit different: you basically get a total sum of money, which you would be paid in monthly installments within a period of time of your choice - which is up to 4 years.. you can spend it within shorter period of time, so you would be getting more per month if you only take 2 years leave or less per month if you take 3 or 4 years.. I hope it makes sense :-)..
Mid July I had COVID and collapsed in the street, a paramedic saw me and called an ambulance,I got whisked to hospital ,tests and told I had COVID put into an isolation ward myself,I was monitored and got nursing staff with doctors,given antibiotics and steroids, kept until I was back to health they took me back home by ambulance and they took me to my bed! This was gratis,free and nothing, I'm Scottish and glad we have our NHS!
So grateful for the NHS, they are amazing! We are so lucky to have them!
The communist scots. Lol.
Nearly every country in the world has affordably healthcare, only the U.S stays strong against that foolish socalism.
Covid-19 treatment was 100% free in the United States as a matter of fact, even for the fifteen million here illegally.
The infection rate in the United States was high. The survival rate per infections was the best in the world.
Try explaining that to an American
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I know a lot of Americans that had covid and none of them were laying in the street. Any covid-19 treatment was paid for by the government 100%, so what's the problem.
US had one of the highest infection rates but had the best survival in the world.
Some in the UK believe they have free healthcare.
The difference is if they make 50,000 a year they pay 40% income tax. I make 50,000 a year and pays 11%.
That's 15,000 difference per year. I can buy the best insurance money can buy for half of that.
They take almost half of your money and tell you they are going to give you free insurance.
Now that's a bargain.
Personally I would rather pay the 10% taxes and buy my own insurance. Not to mention keeping the government out of my life and my choices.
There is a news story circulating here(Norway) atm about a US foreign correspondent who just had a kid and his bill is ofc covered by the Norwegian NHS Insurance so they don't need to pay it, BUT the bill he got from the hospital was almost 50k USD
I'm very grateful that here in Belgium we have very good healthcare. I recently was in hospital for about 6 weeks, including Intensive Care. In the end the hospital literally OWES me 1.20 euro lol. Downside of good standard and mandatory health insurance is that doctor's practices can't handle the work load anymore. A lot of practices don't accept new patients anymore. So if you're new here and need a GP, the first time you will have to make several phone calls before finding one... But when you found one, it's easy accessible.
See... The Americans are seeing the story of the girl getting healthcare in Sweden for 20 US$ and going that is mega cheap, while us Europeans are going... Wait you had to pay for that?
EDIT: The german firecracker story: I live in Denmark and I was in a forest at one point and I started hearing A LOT of gunshots, and my reaction wasn't oh no there's a shooter on the lose, my thought was "Oh I guess someone's hunting." And I was right.
Well its a reactive measure , that became permanent. We have had a huge increase in new arrivals , that was overloading the healthcare system. So as a stop gap they introduced a 20€ fee that would cover everything(visits) for 12 months to help the system and bring down the numbers of visits. While they were at it they seperated pharma into another 20€ fee for 12 months. Sadly greedy politicans will probebly never change the system back again , and they still call it 'free healthcare'.
@@matso3856 No one is going to make a fuss about 20 euros... It's just surprising coming from a country that has no such fee, we get so used to it that we think all Europe is like that even without truly knowing the minute details.
It depends where you live in europe. In Switzerland I get a bill via postal service everytime I go to the doctor. Its mostly not very expensive and if you know that you go more often then you can choose certain insurance models that suit you. By law you are required to have that insurance. If you can't afford it then the local authorities will pay it but you will have to pay it back once you gain money again.
Yes as a Swede I'm a bit annoyed that I have to pay even that small amount $20 or $30 or whatever it is for a visit to a doctor. It's not like that tiny fee covers much of whatever treatment, blood-work, x-ray etc. that you're getting anyway so what's the point? Maybe it is so people don't go see a doctor for nothing and waste healthcare time I don't know? Is that a problem in those countries that are completely free? I know that the emergency number get a lot of calls about stupid and completely unnecessary things.
I'm from Latvia, which is also EU country. I think 20 USD is cheap. My grandfather spent a week in hospital and ended up with €230 bill. His pension is around €350 a month. They do allow to pay it bit by bit. As long as payments are regular, they are not passing you to debt collectors.
I am not an American, I have never even visited America. I didn't know of the cost of even ambulance till recently. I knew that there were expenses, but when I heard the price one needs to pay for a FRICKING AMBUBLANCE I was like "I don't want to buy the vehicle". I just refused to believe that it was the real thing. I am still shocked.
In Czech rep., you pay 4,5% from your wage (your employer pays another 9 %) and you get all healthcare for free. You might have to pay part price for medications and medical supplies (crutches, wheelchairs, white tooth fillings), but that's it. For children and elderly the insurance is paid by the state.
About the same in Greece! I assume we have a little less organised system here, sadly... I've been in Prague, loved every second there and I would be happy to travel the rest of Czech Republic!
I adore your laughter and your personality is very nice. I admire you and want to learn about the world, I wish every young American was like you.
Couple of years ago I had to go to the hospital. They immediately put me into intensive care over night, I got CAT-scans, meds, food... all that. I made a full recovery and in the end it cost me less than $30. I could never imagine moving to USA just simply because your horrendous medical bills.
President Obama was trying to change the medical situation, to free it up for all, but the rich complained that they would be paying for the have not’s. land of the free , keep of the grass. Happy to be Aussie. 😃
My friends left Australia because its expensive
Yeah imo thats the basis of a functioning society - the people who can helps the people who cant so that they one day can.
Whats even the point of a society if we dont help eachother?
I'm from Greece and when I had my son, back in 2006, I had a cesarean section and stayed 5 days in the hospital. All the doctor meetings and needed scans during my whole pregnancy were free (all in public hospital) and additionally I got around 3000 euros as compensation for my maternal leave and surgery, besides my paid maternal leave from my job. Things have changed quite a lot since then, especially after the crisis, but we still have a public health system and you still can give birth or treat any other medical issue for free or with a small participation. Also there are free daycares, free children hospitals, treating really serious and life threatening situations. In fact, at least in Greece, when you deal with a serious illness or you need a really high risk surgery, it's common perceived that you'll prefer the public hospitals and doctors over the private/paying ones.
Thank you for answering something i’ve often wondered re getting prescription meds free after being hospitalised!! I’ve several times over the years finished my hospital visit, or stay, and been given a prescription to take to their pharmacy and NOT had to pay…i confess I thought maybe i’d just got lucky, but now O know it’s because it’s a ‘necessary’ prescription!
I'm from Colombia. The lady that cleans the office where we work got cancer. She had to pay 10USD for her entire treatment and had completely paid leave until she came back.
My dad pays more than 10 usd in mexico
as a Panamanian Ive been asked:
- Wow your english is really good, how did you learn?
- Is the Panama Canal..in Panama?
- Panama as in Panama City, Florida? (i mean, i kinda get that one lol)
- Do you guys have 4g internet there?
- Have you ever had a burger? Do you have McDonalds?
- Oh nice! I love guacamole (that one just made me laugh tbh)
- Oh yea, Panama! you were part of the US once, right? (no, never lmao)
- Can you show up to work in sandals? How about no shoes!
- WHAT?? you have a subway?? (as in metro/trains)
In Germany there are actually attacks by terrorists using armed force, but armed force itself is really very rare in Germany.
My university in Mexico was like $25 per year and also got us free health care
Also you can request financial support even if you're doing kinda meh and depending on the program you could get almost the minimal wage equivalent so if you're living on your own you can get just a part time job and not acquire any debt
3:17 As an American myself, I got pretty teary-eyed at this one!
I have no health insurance either because it's too darn expensive here so I guess I'm playing Russian roulette with my health and if I happen to get seriously sick I might as well crawl up into a ball and die
Oh and paying out of pocket is pretty freaking expensive as well ESPECIALLY if you get seriously sick and have to go to the ER or hospital... Your financial life is pretty much over at that point if you end up racking up tens or hundreds of millions of dollars in medical bills.
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@@HailHeidi this video doesnt make sense because my friends from germany and Canada travel to poland for cheap healthcare and my friends from greenland have everything but they are depressed and suicidal 😔
@@estelaangeles2346 I come from Germany and I can go to the doctor with any problem and I am always treated and I get medicines at reasonable prices.
I even got 10 treatments with a massage therapist after my sports injury, which was covered by health insurance.
@@estelaangeles2346Here too in the Uk they go to Prague or Turkey for example. However, that is because they do have dentistry or cosmetic surgery to look better and it is cheaper in these countries. Cosmetic surgery isn't an illness and therefore the NHS doesn't pay. But with some exceptions, if it does impair the quality of your life. The NHS may pay for it. Regarding suicidal and depression problems: that is subjective to the mental problem each may have and how they can handle the problems. In every country, you will find people with mental illnesses.
That CPR story happened again quite recently in the States. A woman sued her rescuer because in the process of doing CPR they broke a couple of her ribs. Which if you've ever done CPR training you will know, if you're doing it _right_ that is a pretty high likelihood to happen. Fortunately it seems the USA _does_ still have some decent Judges with some common sense, and the case got immediately thrown out. As the Judge pointed out - "if they hadn't done CPR, you wouldn't be alive now to sue them for those broken ribs".
One word: money.
1:10 wait because my best friend at college was an exchange student from Chicago and when he told me that I literally said “were you in a cult?” 😭
Also, yes the difference is drastic. The last shoe school shooting the UK had was in the late nineties in Scotland. By ‘98 guns were basically banned and there hasn’t been a shooting since. Even hunters need a heavily vetted license in order to use a rifle.
I have never ever in my life heard gunshot and I have to go through what´s considered a dangerous parts of the city every single day either to work or school. It sounds absolutely insane that it is so common for you, because I literally cannot remember the last time, when there was something about shooting e. g. on the news. Also the only person I know who has a gun is a hunter (not for fun, but he cares for woods and like helps injured animals or stuff like that) and it is literally his job
Every time you showed one showing how other countries you just go to the doctor and not worry about paying makes me one step closer to considering moving to another country. It's just wild that things are the way they are here. I think this is sort of an example of hearing the "quiet part out load" as I think many know that it's better in other places, but are hardwired to think this is the only country that matters. This one is a bit heavier indeed but keep up the good work, Heidi!
Right??
If I was younger, I'd definitely move to another country: medical costs, guns, etc. We take these things as "normal" when they aren't.
Try germany. Just an idea. Dont wait too much, just do.
@@terryallen7356 that is a lie because there are safe places in usa but Americans think safe places are boring places so they move to fun and dangerous places also my german friends travel to poland for cheap healthcare
Or just travel when you are sick? For example in my country Bulgaria, apendics operation(not insured) in private hospital is 250 usd, laparoscopic 350. davinci robot operation 1500usd. Bed for a night in the hospital 15-20usd lets say 3 nights =60usd + 350=410 usd. 1 way plane ticket 400usd = 810 +1 for back = 1210usd. Lets say you wish to stay for 20 days until they remove the stitches in 5 star hotel 2500 usd, 4 star 1200usd or rent appartment for month for 600-700usd. Lets go for 5 star hottel in the middle of the capital the most expensive one -2500+1210= 3710 usd, lets roll it to 3800$+ 200 usd for food=4000$. 12 months x 500 usd for USA insurance = 6000 usd.
Nice reaction on this video. For your question about cost of healthcare, I'm a 69 year old male from the Netherlands and for healthcare I pay next year 137 Euro premium per month and a additional 385 Euro per year for things that are not fully covered. And for people who are in the low income class the government pays about 75% of the premium. Kids get free coverage till they are 18, and students till they turn 27. 2 Years ago I spent 2 weeks in hospital on the Intensive Care with Covid and afterwards 4 weeks in a recovery hotel. The doctors, nurses and other employees where the best I could get, every time they asked if I needed help or want something to eat or drink. After I got home they provide me with a oxygen machine because my longs where on 60% of their capacity and therapy to get my strength back. And all of this was for free because my healthcare payed everything. I hope for the Americans that they demand public healthcare and also get it so the people get a better life.
Obama tried but the rich complained and bernie sanders was going to change it until trump won
Yep true, the Netherlands have the most expensive healthcare system of Europe by far, with exception of Luxemburg. In most European nations we pay like 150 Euro or less for a whole year and everything is included.
I live in Belgium right now and if I count in the extra dental insurance and 100% hospitalisation, I pay 120 euro's for a entire year. (And we have no "eigen bijdrage". 😉)
For Americans it may sound weird probably, but compared with the rest of Europe Dutch people have to pay a awefull lot for their health insurance.
In Scandinavia, the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain etc etc etc etc people pay just a little more than 100 Euro for a entire year, and everything is covered.
The Netherlands are the most "American" nation in Europe when it comes to maternity leave, health insurance, day-care etc etc etc. And like Americans you think that you have the best system, while actualy it is one of the worst in Europe.
The Dutch people are great of course, don't understand me wrong. But you people are fucked by your government if I compare it with other European nations.
Just listening to your thoughts about the costs to have a child it really hit me as a person living in the UK that in the US it’s a double hit when having a child.. you have to pay around $10,000+ to have a child depending on any additional procedures but then you have to go back to work, you can’t stay off work to look after your new baby because you won’t get paid and be able to pay the bill for having the child. In the UK having a child is free but then you get maternity leave to stay home with your child for over 6 months and still get paid!!!
I live in Australia and our police are armed but rarely draw their guns, I was engaged to one and he drew his gun once in 30 years on the beat. Our police tend to have a different attitude. There simply isn't enough time to type the differences between our two countries, even though we are similar, we are very different and there is no comparison.
Hi. I’m from France and for the sue thing it’s the total opposite. If someone is in a life danger and you’re not trying to help somehow, you can be sue for "non assistance to a person in danger (life need)"
Same in Germany: "unterlassene Hilfeleistung"
Heidi is moving to Canada for the healthcare 😂
This series is a little heavy isn’t it 🥺
Love your face 🇨🇦❤️
It really is!! I wasn't prepared for that. Thank youuu you're wonderful.
Shell need to get her sled riding licence first if she goes there with the Eskimos
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@@oreocarlton3343 You can't say Eskimos anymore... you have to use the word "Elks" 😁
In Czech republic we pay monthly some amount of salary (don't know exactly, but around 50-70$ I think)... Then you have almost every health care free (with some exemptions like visit general practitioner cost 3-5$) even some cases of organ transplantation.. Also you talk about birth cost in US, here you can choose pay for ,, luxury care,, but basically birth is free, you can choose from different hospitals around free and after birth you receive birth bonus from state for child needs ( different for first, second, twins ets..) in my case 8 years before, we got around 1k$ to buy trolley, child bed, diapers and other stuff..
I work for an American company and one of the benefits they remind us that we have is access to lawyer services.
And we're just like ok... people don't sue each other for kicks over here.
I live in Japan and one of the things I would have to say is that Japan is pretty safe. To the point that if a violent crime is committed here, it probably is talked about nation-wide on news channels and talk shows for days. NATIONWIDE! In a country about 1/3 the population of the US. There is crime, but not much on the violent side. Enjoyed your video.
My bro lives there. I stayed with him for about 2 weeks a few years back. The major news item for 2 DAYS was a slight fender bender at a T-junction. No injuries and just held up traffic for a couple of hours 😅
Are sexual assault reported tho ? Cause I agree on violent crimes, live obvious ones, but I found that when women were abused in kinda never was adressed.
It still happens tremendously less often than in the US still, let's be honest.
@@lisamartin9831 I would definitely agree with you for both males and females being sexually assaulted. But would you agree that it is the same in most countries where sexual assault is underreported?
Sadly, I do not believe we have come that far where sexually assaulting someone is only a thing in stories. And no nation is beyond that sad reality.
Haahahahahaha are you really this slow? When I lived in japan I knew the chief of police for a district and things go down that you never hear about. The fact you think japanese people would air out their dirty laundry if they didn't have to shows that you know nothing of japan or it's culture.
@@meandthepotatoes4916 Right. There are about 3000 traffic deaths in Japan in a year... but the major story was a fender bender? AKA you don't know what you are talking about but you will still make up bullshit that makes no sense.
I've had some life-threatening medical episodes here in Canada recently and have stayed in hospital after emergency procedures a couple of times and not even thought about cost. I just focus on my recovery since there is no charge for hospital services. I'm on Facebook support groups and the stories of many Americans with my same condition are hearbreaking. They're being crushed with medical debt and even if they are insured, the company often won't cover the standard treatments fully if at all. So many are reluctant to go to the hospital even though they are experiencing severe and possibly life-threatening symptoms.
Doctors are lazy and my friends met lazy doctors around the world
It’s hilarious how many think their healthcare is free.
@@shag139 NOBODY thinks healthcare is free. Everybody knows it's paid through taxes and not at the user level. When people say it's "free" they mean they don't have to pay it to the hospital or insurer directly. If you asked them "Is healthcare really free?" They would explain what they mean. I'm surprised someone would have to explain this to you.
@@RatKindler yet every single person keeps saying it’s “free”. Europeans and Canadians hear horror stories about the US and just assume it’s true. Meanwhile they ignore wait times for non-emergency procedures and treatment.
Greetings from Germany
Like your Videos and that there are some Americans who are not ignorant against other Country's even when they have systems that are better for human living.
Hope it helps to shed some light:
Italy... motor bike accident:
Helicopter ambulance, regular ambulance, total body ct scan, multiple ct scans, surgery to put femur plate, repair torn tendons and muscles, arterial embolization, medications, 10 days in hospital, 40 days in a rehab hospital.
Total cost 37 € copay for the chopper ambulance.
I have no insurance because basicly you get insurance by simply being a resident (being a national not a requirement).
The issue with police is, I suspect (speaking as a former law enforcement officer in NZ) one of culture. Here as in the UK we were trained to deescalate gsituations, not to shoot first and ask questions afterward. An example was when we had a very rare but major mass shooting incident here a few years back (which resulted in a gun law change) the offender, who had just killed over 50 people, was apprehended by two ordinary police while he was still armed, as at the time were they to address the proven risk and not a shot was fired. Just took two brave, level headed men.
America was more or less fine, give or take a few areas, up until the War on Drugs (more accurately, the War on the Poor and Minorities). That really fucked up how officers saw their job and how they were trained to do it.
It is a deterioration of policing culture over time. Training and/or conditioning officers to view anyone who attracts police attention as some kind of dangerous criminal leads to this sort of thing. I will never forget driving through a state and having the police pull me over and approach my window hand on gun only to let me know I had a tyre with low air in the back. Like, what’s the assumption here?
“Sir, you should pull over at a gas station and inflate that rear tyre”
“DIE PIG BANG BANG BANG”
WTAF?!
Exactly. You have a criminal going nuts and massacring 50 people and you apprehend him, politely and nicely ? Neither the public nor those officers were kept safe by that action. Did you also let him go after 2 years for nice behaviour? Well done! /irony
He received a full life tarrif.
The two officer's worked as a team, one covering the other with no risk to public, as for risk to officer's it is part of the job.
Where citizens and cops are allowed to have guns the more the paranoia bound to be more guln death
One of the most worrying things for me is the pledging of allegiance to america and the flag.
The only country i have ever heard of that before was in Germany when adolf hitler was in power.
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I dont think my American school does that
My late wife had cancer and passed away. During her illness she underwent every type of treatment for surgery, chemotherapy,radiotherapy, the lot.The total cost of the treatment drugs, and fantastic hospital care. Was zero, not a penny. That's why we need to keep the NHS😊
prescriptions in UK cost about £9.65 per item regardless of what the item is and children, over 65's and a few others get them for free and any medicines given as an NHS inpatient are also free. the most expensive part of going to hospital is probably the parking
If they can give their consent, I'd be second guessing my initial inclination to give them CPR 🤔🤔
In the U.K. the cops that do carry guns are specially trained firearms officers.
Edit to add: The girl and her friends ducked for cover when they heard a loud bang. Try combining that with “home of the brave”. More like home of the permanent ptsd.
One thing I found strange about America was the secrecy around buying condoms. I asked my girlfriend where to buy them, and found that you have to go to the chemist, where you can silently ask for a pack of condoms, live through the stares from the chemist and the closest customers, and finally have them discreetly pushed over the counter. Here in Denmark we can buy the damn things everywhere. They are displaying them by the counter in the supermarkets. I had a feeling that Americans never fully accepted that sex has come to stay.
In 55 years living in Germany I have never heard a gunshot outside of TV.
In 57 years living in Germany I have never heard a gunshot outside of TV, movies, and the Bundeswehr shooting range ;-)
Great reaction.. you should watch ‘How one mass shooting changed uk’s gun laws forever’. Will shed light on how guns aren’t everywhere over here.
Take care and much love from Scotland, lass💙🏴
Something to think about, German’s previously pledge an allegiance to the flag, they stopped this practice in 1945 🤔
My husband suffered from aggressive brain cancer, during 28 months he had intensive treatment, 3 brain surgeries, chemo, radiation and lots of hospital time. He spent his last 3 months in a private hospice because he needed so much nursing. His medical bills were about €200,000.( two hundred thousand!) The insurance covered the entire bill. My only bill was from the hospice because it was a private practice, even there the insurance paid for the medical aspect but they had an additional service fee which was €1350 per month but even that was covered by my insurance who reimbursed about 75% of the fee.
If I had lived in the USA I would probably have to have sold my house.
I'm from Hungary and I tore my ACL a couple years ago, I had a full ACL reconstruction surgery, blood tests, EKG, consult with the anesthesiologist, physio therapy etc... all for free... the only thing we needed to pay for was my knee brace for after the surgery
I used to live in a small country in Northern Europe where the only crimes were drunk driving, speeding and maybe some fights outside of bars in the weekends. People never locked their doors. There had been only 5 murders the last 50 years. If someone would walked into a bank and shouted "This a robbery" or stood up in a plane and declared a hijack, the reaction would have been: "Oh my god, you are so embarressing. Stop fooling around". And I'm not even exaggerating.
When I was in Spain for a year I also experienced this. Went to the clinic multiple times over the year and spent less in total than I would have in one visit stateside
Holy cow. It's just crazy!
I may guess you didn't had Seguridad Social registry,othewise you wouldn't spend anything.It is the first time i hear someone paying to see a doctor here in Spain.....or maybe you have been to a private clinic...
@@draculakickyourass we didn't pay for the visits, but did pay for the meds, which were super cheap still.
In Europe in general, it is considered that it is more "economical" to prevent than to cure diseases; it is better to cure a cold in its initial stages than to have to cure respiratory problems by not treating the problem. In Spain we have CAPs (primary care centers) their main function is the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of diseases before they worsen. You have an assigned doctor to go to when you start to feel like something is wrong.
There is a saying, prevention is better than cure.
emergency rooms at the hospital are triage, which means if you are near death or seriously injured you would go to the head of the line, the one finger stitch indeed would have to wait. the ambulance bill was 35.00 and the whole week in hospital with every cardiac test there is, was done, bill was ZERO yes 0 dollars. Health care is not free taxes pay for it. The best part of it is that ur government does neglect to tell you, that the USA citizen still pays more overall because you have to also pay for health care on top of those taxes you pay.
Yeah, I did a student exchange. I went to the ER for this near-constant, intense migraine that lasted for days. After being seen (and terrifying the doctor when I told them how much ibuprofen I use to kill the pain) I stood awkwardly around the receptionist, trying to figure out how I get my bill. Turns out: nope. Just 16 dollars in prescriptions.
Then I went to the dentist because the migraines were from a wisdom tooth. They took it..and did a root canal I needed, and filled a cavity, and just straight up sealed up my molars and these little pointy things behind my canines. For 300 American dollars. Here, just one of those procedures can be twice that.
I’m loving these ‘American’s react’ videos. There’s a lot of damage social media has done but a lot of good too, such as what we can learn. I’m hoping this learning might pave the way for changes in the future.
I’ve travelled to a few different countries but admit that I’m afraid of travelling to America because of the guns and also accountability. It always makes me giggle hearing some American’s saying they are too afraid to visit Australia because of our animals and insects lol. The US has deadly creatures too! Just don’t go where they may be. Having said that about the fear of the US, I still wouldn’t walk home at night alone or take similar risks in my country, but that’s just common sense to me. There’s bad people everywhere. So far I have found Switzerland to be the safest country I’ve visited.
Been to switzerland once. Didn't feel safer than germany (...and I did get a covid infection from there), but ohmygod it's a beautiful place. And the trains were on time :D
I had the opportunity to work in Texas....and I decided not to go for the guns issues and the health care.....
There's a lot of damage Trump and populist politics has done to the US.
I did not understand the one about the woman going to Norway for the metal festival at first...until it dawned on me that she's always been called an AFRICAN American and never just American....
The one with the construction site in Germany and plaza, yeah that reaction is PTSD and I'd say if you react like that it could help to get some kind of support, noone should have to go through that
I used to live in Pomona, CA and went to high school in Claremont. During speech class, we had to do an impromptu speech. All off the students, whom also lived in Pomona, had stories of injuries and deaths from bullets. Fortunately, I lived in a well protected sub-community inside Pomona, so I never experienced any of that.
The thing you do with the flag was done by a certain nation in Europe during a world war , As for the healthcare system, I am happy to live in Italy, in the last two years I have had problems with a venous thrombosis in the left leg plus an infection that could have killed me, between the time spent in the hospital 25, 3 and even 7 days, medicines that gave me in hospital, medicines that I took at home including syringes that cost more than 200 euros and quite other expensive things, Luckily I didn't pay anything because I don't work so I have something called exemption , The three days were because on the sick leg I had a vein in the ''surface'' of the leg, for pure bad luck that vein opened and I became a human fountain (I still take anticoagulants that worsened the situation), I called the ambulance, two arrived because I am a heavy person, 113 kg, I did not pay for the ambulance, and some of the people who came to help me stayed at my house with my grandmother to help clean all the blood I lost , sorry for the poem and my English
Wow. Thank you for sharing your story. I'm so glad you've been able to get the help you need without putting hole in your wallet. That is incredible! 💜
The first instance inwas aware of "America messed you up" Mike Myers was at a hockey game (in Canada), his wife was hit with a puck, and thought she had been shot.
Honestly, I cannot imagine anyone wanting to go live in the US. The healthcare system is ridiculous. How can you afford to live at all if you have a medical condition? I have MS and the treatment I started this year is done by infusion every 6 months. I recently learned that if I were in the US, I'd never be able to afford to have the treatment as it costs $32k each time! That blew my mind. Even with health insurance, it'd still be a hefty charge.
Like, here in Northern Ireland or anywhere else in the UK, treatment is free! If you need a prescription, it's free! If you need to see a doctor, same. If you need an ambulance, no charge. Same with surgeries. Thank jaysus for the NHS.