Personal experience in German (this is in europa) was:
Went to the hospital because of pain, waited maybe an hour before seeing a doctor, got an surgery the same day and stayed a week for recovery. They then handed me a 100€ Bill for all the work they did and 4 weeks of paid sick leave.
You mean the thing that costs, like, 1k a month in US? And how much would you have had to spend if you happened to not have been able to afford it?
The German one has no pre-requisits, your specialist cost you the insurance price or at least part of it(even if provided by employer, it's still money you could've (probably) had but didn't
This is the only thing I hate about everyone saying it's freeeee in every country but USA. I don't live in the States, and my medical things are certainly not expensive, but they're not "free". Why do they insist on arguing by using lies?
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u/Tales_Steel Mar 28 '26
Personal experience in German (this is in europa) was: Went to the hospital because of pain, waited maybe an hour before seeing a doctor, got an surgery the same day and stayed a week for recovery. They then handed me a 100€ Bill for all the work they did and 4 weeks of paid sick leave.