Quote (Black XistenZ @ Sep 6 2021 09:59am)
As a fellow German, I have to push back on this a little bit. Overall, the way our healthcare system is set up is infinitely better than the American one. What has led to the deterioration of our system in recent years is demographic change and bad policies, not a flaw of the universal healthcare itself.
First, we are a rapidly aging society, so the cost-revenue ratio of our insurance companies was destined to worsen. Second, we have a split between public and private insurance which allows some of the most high-income groups, civil servants in particular, to not pay into the system that's paying for the plebs' treatment. Third, we have far too many healthcare insurers and the overhead cost is killing us. Fourth, we afford the luxury of overtreating very old and sick patients, a luxury which we will have to cut down on sooner or later. Fifth, we suffer from the burden of millions of recipients who never contributed to the system. On the one hand, we have older East Germans who spent their prime earning years in the failed, socialist GDR, never contributed to the social safety net of the Federal Republic but are now entitled to benefits. On the other hand all the millions of migrants who came in recent years.
A lot of these factors are very specific to Germany, so they are not a general argument against our type of healthcare system. I agree, however, that the Netherlands and, to a lesser degree, Austria have even better systems. That's where our American friends should look at to find ideas for a kickass healthcare system, rather than Germany, the UK or France.
all good and true points, i was talking my personal situation here only
and yes, universal healthcare can work in homogenous societies with a solid economy and healthy demographics
which brings us to the basic requirements for a good society in general, it all starts there and thats why it will never work in the united states
the massive burden of migrants on our system was already really bad before 2015 happened and i have lost count how many more recipients not paying a penny we took in since then
remember the picture of the dead kid on the beach? his dad wanted to get his teeth done for free in germany.....
the bottom line is: i am done paying for this shit and the collapse is coming