That is not correct. In Germany, a month's supply of diabetic medication comes pretty close to free, with a 5-10 Euro co-pay, ie less than hour's pay at minimum wage. In the US, cost cannot exceed $35 for a patient on medicare; if you are privately insured or uninsured there is no upper limit, and some are obliged to pay or pay back exorbitant amounts. The only thing that keeps costs down is competition with the socialized aspect of our system, and care is still less than a third of the cost in Germany than here.I asked a gentleman in the healthcare field if he thought we would ever have true universal health care in the USA . He said he hoped not because he had relatives in Germany who tell him the system over there tells people to just die if they become diabetic like him.
I am inclined to believe this is not true. is my incliniation wrong?
I am worried by how unsurprised I am that there are people who believe and spread such obviously propagandic nonsense. Though it's possible that the man does have relatives in Germany who told him that, as a wind-up, and that he just has no grasp of the German sense of humour, or of reality. I have noticed a non-trivial proportion of Americans who seem shocked to discover that other countries have such modern marvels as paved roads, indoor plumbing, television, the Internet, etc., etc., things that they genuinely seemed to imagine were an entirely American preserve.
Well, obviously. It's almost impossible to pave a road when it's upside down.
That would be something like the British sense of cuisine?
Oh come on. What is wrong with Spotted Dick , Marmite pasta or Toad-in-hole? Not forgettting warm beer.
One of the outcomes of The Emu War was an agreement with the Emus that no new roads shall be paved.
They've been avoiding us ever since The Incident.
It doesn't read to me like obviously propagandistic nonsense; it reads to me like obviously exasperation-based hyperbole. It doesn't take a specifically German sense of humor, either -- I've heard similar comments from Canadians. They're sarcastic complaints about the infamous wait times, from people who had the experience of the medical system getting around to mentioning that physician assisted suicide is available before it got around to providing the treatment they need. Of course that's going to become the butt of gallows humor. I don't know if German wait times are as bad as Canadian, but Germany has physician-assisted suicide too.
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This.
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I do not trust UHC systems on the expensive stuff, nor on the quality of life stuff. But diabetes is neither. (Although the complications down the road can be.) I find the notion that they tell diabetics to go die bonkers.I asked a gentleman in the healthcare field if he thought we would ever have true universal health care in the USA . He said he hoped not because he had relatives in Germany who tell him the system over there tells people to just die if they become diabetic like him.
I am inclined to believe this is not true. is my incliniation wrong?
