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HSA’s is how it USED to be completely and the insurance companies used to be able to use HSA’s to bargain with the FOR PROFIT hospitals. You are not allowed to haggle with the NP Hospitals!
@TheRaevin The health care, if people are happy with it and it doesn’t cost the taxes to get out of control, then more power to you. Doesn’t sound like to bad of a system. We call what our government tries to do a nanny state. It seem our government wants to hold our hand from cradle to grave. All at the cost of tax payers.
@nannyberries
If you earn more than 33.000 a year you really don’t worry about 65 euro’s more or less a month, trust me. The only thing that people hate in this country are our gas prices. We pay 0.60 euro cents a liter (0.2 gallons) tax money which can make traveling expensive. But we are more than happy with our healthcare. Cultural difference perhaps.
@TheRaevin Your system seems to be what this program is saying. Looks like your government only helps pay for the sicker patience. You definitely do not have a socialized medicine thing like they are proposing here.
@nannyberries
But then you have the problem of salaries. Doctors in the US pay a lot more for their schooling than here in Europe. Not because they get taught better but because the salaries they end up getting will allow them to pay for it. Doctors still earn a lot of money in Europe but less than in the United States and that to think most things are more expensive over here, just check out the average house price in the UK or The Netherlands. Surgeries end up costing more money.
@TheRaevin My mother in law died of cancer, so I know how the price goes on that. I just feel that if there was more competition with the insurance staying out of the small stuff and consumers had more to do with their own health care that it would bring down the price structure. Just like any other business.
@nannyberries —The laws do not state that you must have electricity, gas, housing or clothes. Medical bills are expensive. I saw a US citizen get a 50.000 dollar bill from ONE chemo! So why not let citizens put money in the bowl for those that need it ? Many hands make light work. Beats paying 500 (or so) dollars a month just so when you happen to get sick some donkey can tell you you’re not covered because of some crazy loophole they found, that’s madness.
@nannyberries “The measure of a civilization is how it treats its weakest members.” It’s hard to determan who is really sick and who is simply to lazy to work. Somebody who is sick and unable to work (and therefor doesn’t contribute) shouldn’t be left to fend for him/herself. The government is helping me pay because i’m single and make less than 33.000 euro’s a year. They do this because the law states that every citizen of The Netherlands MUST have health insurance. The laws do not
@TheRaevin Even when some other people do not want to work, so do not contribute? Also. Just out of being curious. How far are you willing to have the government pay for portions of life. Electricity, food, gas, housing, clothes? Who decides how far to go? What I have a hard time understanding, is if the government pays for one thing, why not have them pay for it all?
@nannyberries
I don’t because i know that when i get sick, whether it’s a simple flue or god forbid i get cancer they’ll also be paying for mine. Surgeries are extremely expensive, hearing about somebody in the US losing two fingers and having to make a choice about which one he wants placed back because he can’t pay for both is rather sickening. Is 37 euro’s a month (or 100 if you make more than 33.000 a year) too much to be covered for everything ? I don’t think so.
@TheRaevin You pay 37 a month + your taxes. No? You have been healthy for years, glad to hear it. You do not mind paying for someone else’s health care then?
I’m amazed at how easy Americans get brainwashed. I haven’t been to the doctor for years but i go to bed happily knowing that if i wake up and something is terribly wrong with me i can go to any doctor i want, get any treatment and go back as often as i want without having to worry about the price tag that comes along with it. I pay 37 euro’s a month, the government pays the other 63 euro’s and i’m covered. There’s no waiting list, i can see my doctor today if i wanted to.
@robertrutherford1959 Gee, we are just incredibly impressed with your anecdotal evidence. It is truly amazing that we should have the audacitu to accept Health Canada’s official statisticas bout wait times and the numerous people suffereing for years on waiting list in canada or who come to the US for care they don;t believe they can afford to wait for. Clearly we should rely on the experience of the handful of people you know instead of data collected about the whole country.
Please.
@robertrutherford1959 Gee, we are just incredibly impressed with your anecdotal evidence. It is truly amazing that we should have the audacitu to accept Health Canada’s official statisticas bout wait times and the numerous people suffereing for years on waiting list in canada or who come to the US for care they don;t believe they can afford to wait for. Clearly we should rely on the experience of the handful of people you know instead of data collected about the whole country.
Please.
@robertrutherford1959 i know dot damn government is preventing us from learning!!!
You people are all bizarre. I cannot tell you of anyone I know who has been dissatisfied with Canada’s health care system. I have waited only once – to see a dermetologist. What is your problem in the US???? You are one crazy country!
The sad part is that, this was in 2007 and NOW we’re still having socialized medicine. All the problems that he showed WILL be us, if it doesn’t get reversed. It’s sad :/
@TheShaniqua1992 Really, prove it. I think you would keep your same wage and the company would pocket that savings. Your being quite naive about Corporations. You just need to look no further than GE with a World wide profit of $14B in 2010. They cut the wages and benefits of their non-union employees and want 15,000 US union employees to take a wage and benefits cut, while at the same time raising the CEO’s salary 100%. So quit being so naive. Corporations do not have your best interest in mind
@jrwilson98
This is a real dumb post. What matters to the employer is YOUR TOTAL COST. If your employer had to pay you less in benefits, you’d see wages go way up.
People ARE stupid though
@zachromero you’re such a fucking idiot