Re:July 2018 Median Household Income in the U.S.
by tptacek on Sunday October 07, 2018 @07:38PM
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With respect to out-of-network coverage: Germany also has a quarter of the population of the US and an land area smaller than several US states. Which is just to say, it's probably easier to provision a reliably coherent network of health care providers in Germany than it would be to do that across all 50 states.
Re:July 2018 Median Household Income in the U.S.
by chmod775 on Monday October 08, 2018 @02:30PM
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> [...] it's probably easier to provision a [...] network of health care providers [among Germany's 16 Bundeslaender] than [...] across all 50 states.
Maybe. Slightly. Not really a challenge in the computer age.
Also the last paragraph of my comment above still applies.
Yeah, but in Germany most things are actually covered by the insurance, whereas in the US even people with really good insurance can face huge bills for things like being in the wrong hospital or being treated by the wrong doctor, which sounds utterly bizarre from a European perspective.
> Likewise with college. Germany would pay a lot more to offer free education if it didn’t aggressively control the pipeline of students into colleges. That idea would be alien to the left in the US, where the belief is that everyone should go to college.
To phrase that another way, in the US you believe that anyone with the money should be able to go to university.
Also, a key difference: taxation for public services is pretty universally supported in Europe. Even by the right wing.