General Discussion
In reply to the discussion: My experience with Universal health Care [View all]Diclotican
(5,095 posts)Ron Obvious
That sounds hard, to possible be given a bill of 350.000 dollar for critical medical attention - even though Germany do it another way then in Norway - it is still better to pay 8000 Euro, than 350.000 dollar, 8000 euro is a setback - but you tend to be able to at least pay it - compared to 350.000 who might take a decade or two to pay down - if you are lucky and the hospital is "nice" to you - or you have a attorney who could work it out for you.....
It is madness - when people are not even caring about the fact, that in Europe you can get the same treatment - for far less than in the US.. I guess it is enshrined into the "american code" in some way - that universal health care is wrong - and if you need health care, you have to pay for it....
And it is a long time since the medical care in US was third rate - many americans still believe Europe exist in a limbo of the 1950s, where illnesses like tuberculosis and many other illnesses was killing people right left and center - the medical knowledge have risen from the 1950s to a standard who is as best as anything the US can afford - for far less as the different country's in Europe have deiced that one for or another of the "universal health care" system is important to public safety.. As it was when the first laws when it comes to health care for everyone states - it was for the betterment of everyone - and for public saftly... After the devastating effect of both World War one and two in Europe - it was kind of the right thing to do - to build up a solid safely net for everyone - in the years between the two wars - many of the tools was starting to materialize itself - but it was not until after the war, a public health care system was build up in every european nations - mostly because whole city's had been reduced to rubbles and therefore they could plan for building more healthy City's.. Specially in Germany, they managed to rebuild a lot of the town and City's to a level never before seen in Germany.. The same happened in the UK, where parts of London had to be rebuild - totally from the ground up.. Even as it took years to do it - at least from the outside the London was made more modern - and more healthy as a lot of the houses who had been bombed had to be rebuild from the ground floor....
Diclotican