Re:Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
by mopsi on Sunday December 20, 2020 @11:34AM
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Yes. Nobody in Europe can even believe that things like ambulance rides could be anything but free. Those stories sound like depressing dystopia from a post-apocalyptic sci-fi movie.
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The swiss right in the center of europe can very well imagine
https://www.srf.ch/news/schweiz/2500-franken-fuer-62-kilomet...
Re:Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
by kasey_junk on Sunday December 20, 2020 @11:50AM
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For nearly all US tech. workers an ambulance ride will be free or a nominal deductible.
Wait, what? No. That is definitely not true. We have very good insurance, and every ambulance ride has cost a fortune.
Re:Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
by kasey_junk on Sunday December 20, 2020 @09:21PM
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You have insurance where an ambulance ride doesn’t just apply to your deductible?
I believe it but have never had an insurance plan like that.
I've had insurance from Arbor (Blue Cross) pre-ACA, from Erin's job at the Latin School (Blue Cross) pre-ACA, from Matasano (United), from BCBS on the ACA marketplace (and now at Fly, but that doesn't matter b/c...) and ambulance trips in all 4 of those, and all of them cost a fortune.
Later
Erin also points out that beyond the deductible cost, your ambulance has to be in-network, or it's not covered at all --- that bit our family too.
I'm a defender of our insurance system, weird as that sounds, but even I won't try to stick up for how we handle ambulances.
Re:Ask HN: Earning 100k EUR in Berlin?
by juliusmusseau on Monday December 21, 2020 @03:58AM
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The ambulance rates where I live (Vancouver, BC, Canada) always make me blink:
Insured: $50 flat rate, ground or air.
Uninsured:
$848 flat fee (ground service)
$4,394 per hour (helicopter)