Americans, your next vacation (holiday), go to .....

[luiza]

what have you got (tourist wise) that we haven't cave dude?

~S~

It is more about mixing with a better and nicer class of person ----- IQ obviously , command of language and culture .
Mostly we are too polite to laugh at you or overtly patronise , and we can be most helpful and hospitable to those that are willing to learn and we refrain from preaching at the less fortunate . Mostly .

Perhaps you can also tap into our sense of developed humour and even find elegance and intended humour in this post .
But perhaps that is expecting too much .

 

[Concerned American]

That's what you pay, dummy. When you take into account what employers pay, about 75%, the average health insurance per person per month is over $1,000 per month. Then, you have nose bleeding high deductibles, or some stupid terminology like that.

So the girlfriends mother, picked up by ambulance, taken to East Kilbride to the heart specialist hospital by ambulance, had a balloon fitted in her hearth/artery, then back to her local hospital via ambulance for at least 3 days won't get a bill because it's £0.00.

On average per person in the UK, health cost is £500 per calendar month. She doesn't pay anywhere near that being in her 80's.

So the treatment above, how much would that cost you on your alleged $685 plan in The Land of the Free?

I pay less that $500/mo. and I would be charged $0. Retired over 70

 

[otto105]

.....the UK and Europe. Get off your fat backsides and go and see what you're missing and to debunk the clichés that you were taught.

Travel to Europe is huge now.

Thanks to President Biden’s economy

 

[Captain Caveman]

I pay less that $500/mo. and I would be charged $0. Retired over 70

Average, thick head

 

[Concerned American]

Average, thick head

Are you looking in the mirror? You must be if you think you know more about my finances than I do, moron.

 

[Ringo]

News from a European flowering garden.

Rat-friendly Amsterdam: Experts argue for co-existence with vermin, not extermination

The contact between humans and rats typically ends with the latter's death. But at a conference of the Center for Animal Studies of the University of Amsterdam, experts argued for a different approach. “In the conflict between humans and rats, it is usually win-lose. But killing one of the two...

nltimes.nl

 

[JWBooth]

.....the UK and Europe. Get off your fat backsides and go and see what you're missing and to debunk the clichés that you were taught.

UK? If I wanted to go to Pakistan I would, why choose Paki lite?

 

[Zebra]

.....the UK and Europe. Get off your fat backsides and go and see what you're missing and to debunk the clichés that you were taught.

what are those cliches?

 

[DGS49]

There is a huge amount of BS in the ROW* about American healthcare.

Does it ever ever occur to outsiders that if it were as bad as it is portrayed in the international Press, we would do something about it? Oh yeah, you think we are all stupid.

Most Americans have healthcare that is better than fine, at a cost that we can easily afford. We get this through either (a) health insurance that is subsidized by our employers, or (d) Medicare plus a "supplement" for which we pay a hundred or two every month - not enough to break the bank. Those two groups account for at least 2/3 of American households.

There are countless "horror stories" of people, usually people with crappy jobs, where medical bills bankrupt them, or something equivalent to that. But in a country of 340 million souls, "countless" is not a significant percentage of the population.

To move to socialized medicine (no matter what you call it) would actually require a Constitutional Amendment, which in turn requires super-majorities in Congress and the state legislatures; those super majorities will never be reached as long as most people are satisfied, as we are.

Furthermore, NO COUNTRY has ever shifted from private to socialized medicine after the private medical "industry" has grown to the proportions it is in the U.S. - 1/6 of the whole economy, or something like that. The effect of socialization would be economically cataclysmic, AND would usher in unprecedented amounts of graft, waste, and corruption.

Regardless, every medical system has things it does very well and things it doesn't do very well. Making a radical change to American healthcare would simply implement different hardships while satisfying some of today's hardships. Which is why it ain't happening in the foreseeable future.


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* rest of the world