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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by purerandomness on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:15PM (#25004535)
As a working-age expat, you might still have an ambulance called after an accident or a drug overdose after partying, having cancer surgery, a flu shot, a pregnancy or an IVF, all for free.
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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by emteycz on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:47PM (#25004692)
They have ambulances in the US too. Also, isn't Finland a country where you pay health insurance? If that is free, a lot of things in the US suddenly are free as well.
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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by purerandomness on Thursday November 05, 2020 @10:56PM (#25004742)
> They have ambulances in the US too.

We were talking about costs. In the US, calling an ambulance is not guaranteed to be free.

OP claimed that as a young, healthy expat, you don't benefit from a system where your tax payments finance health care.

I showed examples where a young, healthy expat directy benefits from this system, by having medical emergencies that would potentially bankrupt you in the US.

Not sure I followed your point here.

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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by Mediterraneo10 on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:18PM (#25004846)
> Also, isn't Finland a country where you pay health insurance?

Not really. You pay income taxes in general, and some portion of that funds the public healthcare system, but healthcare isn’t something you ever have to think about in particular.

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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by seanmcdirmid on Thursday November 05, 2020 @11:19PM (#25004855)
You don’t have to pay to use most roads in the USA, on a usage basis at least. The use of the word free but not really isn’t foreign to Americans.
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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by whitexn--g28h on Friday November 06, 2020 @01:39AM (#25005504)
You absolutely pay for roads on a usage basis [1] unless you drive an electric car.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_taxes_in_the_United_State...

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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by ejolto on Friday November 06, 2020 @07:23AM (#25007115)
That's not paying for roads, that's paying for fuel. You would be paying those fuel taxes even if you were only driving on your own private roads.
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Re:Helsinki Relocation Package: City as a Service by seanmcdirmid on Saturday November 07, 2020 @06:35PM (#25020906)
The gas tax hasn’t covered the cost of road maintenance since the 80s.
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