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0:00 - Intro
1:16 - Costs of calling an ambulance in the US vs in Japan
3:22 - Costs of getting a doctor checkup in the US vs in Japan
5:31 - How many times do you see the doctor per year?
6:31 - Costs of giving birth in the US vs in Japan
8:10 - Costs of one night in the hospital in the US vs in Japan
9:54 - Japanese healthcare system
11:24 - Does national health insurance mean lower quality?
12:12 - What do you think of the US healthcare system?
13:24 - Would you consider living in the US?
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Next make them react about Unit 731
USA live in real capitalisme
Universal healthcare first existed in the Soviet Union in 1918. In 1948, Article 25 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) stipulates that health is a human right that cannot be capitalized or given a price tag. And after 100 years, healthcare is in 194 countries out of 195 countries in the world, including North Korea. except the USA which still puts a price tag on health. for the reason that this is healthcare is a crime of communism
I feel it is something our generation must do to compete with the overall world healthcare costs.
UK: £0
Im an American, but im a resident of Japan.
I got injured once and needed an MRI, Xray, Medicine, and 2 visits with a specialist.
I was deathly scared of the bill.
I nearly cried when my total bill was only about $100.
I had a similar experience where I felt very strange due to dehydration in the hot summer when I was studying abroad. The woman who helped me and translated for me told me it might be a little expensive when I paid for the bill. I saw the price on the screen and it was only around 12,000 yen. I couldn’t believe that getting an MRI, doctor consultation, new patient fee, and four blood tests could be so cheap. In America without insurance that would be nearly 4 months of work for me. Truly disgusting the U.S. doesn’t do something about the ridiculous cost of health care in my opinion.
@@chrismarcy6611 You mean to say "The US Healthcare & Medical Costs are Truly Disgusting in my opinion !" ..otherwise it could be read as if you're saying Japan's cheaper care is wrong.
No Offence meant or intended, just offering a clarification for you to think about an edit with.
@@razor1uk610 No need to clarify what was quite obvious. It was quite clear that the last sentence was in relation to the second-last one.
I think here in Australia it's free😂
LEARN ENGLISH!@@pissupehelwan
I think those of us in the US all just kind of put up with it, grudgingly. But when you actually try to explain it to someone under a different system, boy does it smack you right in the face just how F'd up it is.
It does! As an american, I have had it with this dam country and I wanna go study in another country like denmark and live their in the future etc
even if your opt out of insurance during tax season you get penalized so you get screwed either way. it's a lose-lose. best solution for americans is just 'not get sick'
@@matty6878 didn't the "individual mandate" to get health insurance or pay a penalty... didn't that get knocked down in the courts? I don't think there's a penalty anymore but could be wrong. Provide link or similar, plz
Edit: checked into it, I'm right, Matty is wrong.
I paid 100$ for like 5 hospital visits last year. 2 of those times I was hooked on an electrocardiogram. Then I also went to a cardiologist to do ultrasound on my heart. (Was fine). But crazy that it would definetely cost over 20k in the US
I got 4 of my wisdom teeth removed in Australia under the Public system and because of my low income at the time paid nothing for it. I peeped the Private insurance price and it was $4599 Australian dollars 😅 I know we pay more in taxes but like honestly I prefer paying more taxes if it means we have Universal healthcare for all and a fairly cheaper Education system. Now I know why my Ex (Doctor) moved to the US 😂
I had appendix in the US. I was carried to a hospital in New York, and to my surprise, they told me that the hospital could not take my insurance. I took a taxi to another hospital, where they also denied my insurance because they "did not work with the insurance company". I booked the next flight to the Netherlands where I am a citizen of, and got my surgery. It costed me 400 EUR (about 500 USD) for the operation and 3 days in the hospital. If I were to get a surgery in the US uninsured, it'll bankrupt me.
That’s why 94% of Americans have insurance. Your taxes would bankrupt me.
@@fatherson5907You are already paying for high healthcare taxes. The fact that you have to pay more insurance is just like paying double for the same thing, twice.
@@fatherson5907 he does have an insurance, just that the hospitals he went to didn't take the Insurance or didn't work with his Insurance company.
So yeah, even if you have an insurance, you would still be bankrupted because you go to the "wrong" hospital lol
Even with insurance, the yearly deductible is usually thousands of dollars, which is more than most people in the world pay for healthcare in 10 years.
its literally not even about taxes. US healthcare is the most expensive per capita in the world. its just a terrible and inefficient system that bootlickers like u will oddly defend because u've been brainwashed into thinking its about taxes when its about greed, and being conditioned to accepting terrible healthcare costs@@fatherson5907
Y’all forgot to mention in USA they don’t tell you how much it cost upfront lmao 😂. You get surprised in mail
Even with insurance, i had to pay $1,500 out of pocket for an emergency room visit since I didn't hit my deductible limit. Doctor saw me 5 minutes tops, told me everything is ok, and gave me a vitamin drink. What a ripoff!!
Imagine paying half of your salary and never getting care like in the EU and UK.
You’re ignorant and entitled.
😮
That’s crazy but normal in the USA. 😟Urgent care/same day facilities are your best friends if you can’t get to your regular doctor and need minor treatment now. It’s a lot cheaper.
@@fatherson5907you are so ignorant. I lived and taught English in South Korea for 5 years and I was on the government insurance. I was able to walk in and see any doctor at any doctors office or hospital without a referral nor long wait for dirt cheap.
@@betsywilliams3666 you’re a slob. I pay $83 per month for excellent coverage. And I don’t eat 8,000 calories and never exercise like you.
The national debt, housing costs, record credit card debt, inflation, rising cost of living, etc. Health care costs are just part of the problem. America is lost.
The US economy is surging and now accounts for nearly 50% of the global economy.
You’re ignorant and think that these problems are unique to the US.
US average household debt is the highest in the world. It's very sad.
@@paranoidhumanoid nope, that is a complete lie. All of the data is clearly published on the OECD website.
Norway ranks #1 in average household debt.
Yay capitalism!
@@paranoidhumanoid why are you lying lol
I came from Switzerland and living in Tokyo. I remember a few years back me and my friends ( a French, an Austrian and a newly arrived American) went for a skiing trip to Nagano. On that trip my american friend had an accident and when I called for an ambulance he was so terrified of the price!
Also,he's a type 2 diabetic and he practically wept when he learned how cheap the price of insulin here in Japan compared to the US.
American healthcare is a scam!!!
I'm moving from the US to Thailand at the end of this month. A major reason is health care costs which will eventually bankrupt me and many Americans over the course of our lives. My neighbor broke her leg. The bill was $60000 before her insurance kicked in but she still had to put out a considerable sum. A doctor friend once explained the US health care system to me as"People here are fine with it until something breaks - they lose their job, lose their coverage, get a chronic condition, then the whole thing spirals out of control."
As an american, I plan to move to countries like denmark or Norway, etc, for because costs and such are free and covered by taxes, etc, and work fare, etc. If so much better
@@andrewreynolds912you’re a racist. Simple as that.
No, her bill wasn’t $60k. Stop spreading misinformation because you’re too ignorant to understand how insurance works.
Welcome brother! It's great here.
I'm Indonesian, and I have private health insurance. My insurance can cover my health anywhere in the world (especially during vacation abroad), but excluding USA. I believe it's because of unreasonable medical bill in US.
This is what I was paying in Japan:
• Doctor visit: ~$9
• Prescription medicine (for typical colds, other basic ailments): ~$17
• Yearly medical check: Free
• Dental cleaning (w/ first time visit fee, left/right/panorama x-rays, cleaning): $30
• Dental filling (one visit, local anesthesia, white composite filling): $17
Of course the USD amount I wrote fluctuates with the exchange rate but it is way more affordable in Japan. In fact, my U.S. dentist even advised me once to get my work done in Japan since it’s cheaper.
Do you pay health care taxes in Japan?
@@ixoraroxi i wanted to know the same. is this bills are with insurance or without it?
@@ixoraroxi
For someone with an annual income of $40,000, national health insurance tax is $3,000 a year. For unemployed people,it’s $200 per year. The proportion of copayments you have to pay at the hospital counter varies depending on your age. Children are free. Adults pay 30%. Elderly people pay 10% to 20% depending on their income😊
• Doctor visit: ~$12-20 usd
• Prescription medicine (for typical colds, other basic ailments): ~$10-30$
• Yearly medical check: 40 USD
• Dental cleaning (w/ first time visit fee, left/right/panorama x-rays, cleaning): $10-15
• Dental filling (one visit, local anesthesia, white composite filling): $10-15
This is my side in HaNoi -Vietnam. Would like to share too ^^
we need to take back the healthcare system from the insurance companies who are practicing medicine without a license.
No, aim for the root of the problem: make government funded or run healthcare illegal.
And watch as prices suddenly drop to what people can actually afford once hospitals are at the mercy of the free market.
@@JMObyx This is the totally opposite problem. Health insurance is driving up the costs and passing it on to us. There is a reason why health insurers are making money hand over fist.
@@shawnm8232 Yeah, but health insurance is paying *the doctors,* the root of the problem is the people there to fix people overcharging those they're meant to care for. And while I said this is the root of the problem, the insurance companies in general are out of control and need something done to them, I just believe curbing the hospital's prices by ensuring the government can't pay them is the surest way to solve the problem, and while it might or might not force the insurance companies to drop their prices, if they don't that's tye next bridge to cross.
@@JMObyx Every 1st world country besides the US is on a single payer system. We the people can manage our own money, we don't need to be giving a huge chunk to a 3rd party.
Open up the system so the government can offer a competing health plan. You'll suddenly see prices come down. Let the people decide if they want to use private or public health insurance.
I haven't met a regular person on Medicaid complain about not having to pay a deductable.
health insurance isn't a problem as we used to have a good system for over 100 years. Healthcare only became an oil boom after heavier and heavier regulations forced the cost of everything upwards and reduced market competition. Plus now a lot of national systems have enough criticism that you can find many people suffering with their tax paid systems to the point they will go elsewhere including the US. There is always room for improvement but it is not just insurance companies because otherwise they would just undercut each other to get more customers if they were raking in tons of money
Last June, I was crossing the street when I was hit by a car. I recieved minimal care and still suffer from chonic pelvic and head pain, but I now have over 85,000 USD in medical bills. At the heart of this system is profit. It's cruel.
Why didn’t you have insurance? You were irresponsible, you took a risk, now you’re trying to claim victimhood.
@@fatherson5907 There are many reasons why someone might not have insurance. Someone whos immigrated to the US and does not realize or has not found insurance yet (knew a person like that $50k in debt because of a hospital visit after just moving to the US), If youve lost your job, if you need to take medical leave that is longer than your job will allow you to take, and so they fire you and you lose your insurance while on your medical leave and still needing treatment, living in a state where you dont qualify for medicaid when unemployed (north carolina only allowed people under 65 onto medicaid last month)
@@fatherson5907Saying “your fault for not subscribing to the system” does not take away from the fact that the system is bad.
@@fatherson5907 what is your deal man? People are out here describing their awful experiences with the healthcare system and your just in the comments trying to spread cruelty. Do you understand what it’s like to be poor? And if you do, when did you forget your humanity? It’s really really strange.
@@KhaotiKlan Forget it. He's too plugged into the matrix to understand and would rather defend this awful system instead
As an American, it's not fair. It's not fair man! For Healthcare alone, I'd move to Japan.
its good system they have in Japan but not great doctors. Look it up
@@nueat6they have the longest life spans for centuries……..
There has been a lot of newcomers from western countries coming into Japan. Japan is needing people to work in japan, due to the country’s rapidly declining birth rate, population, labour force, and increasing aging population. But there can be a problem adjusting to the work culture in Japan as well.
@@nueat6
It is basically foreigners living in Japan who say Japanese doctors are not good. This is because many Japanese doctors do not speak English, which causes miscommunication with foreign patients. The skills of Japanese doctors themselves do not seem to be so bad.
My friend once had an operation in his appendix but received 250000 yen instead, from insurance and sponsors.
1 of the interviewees said everyone pitches in to make sure Japanese citizens have healthcare and he seemed glad to do it. Here in 'merica, many believe there are those who don't deserve healthcare (homeless, drug addicts, unemployed, etc) and abhor the idea of "pitching in". Really highlights the community vs individual mindset of Japan vs America.
In USAmerica the words "Socialised" and "Socialism" are consistently confused between themselves, and also confused with "Communism". The anti-socialisation propaganda in the USA is incredible.
Imagine how many fewer homeless and drug addicted people we would have in the US if we had Universal Healthcare!
Lmao I love the laughs and the reactions of the Japanese interviewees after hearing US healthcare costs😂 theyre flabbergasted lol
As a U.S. citizen those bills even make you have an heart attack instead of getting treated properly.. how sad😢
As an American, I clicked to see the shock on their innocent faces. Even after learning how high medical treatment can get in the US, and their answers started going higher, I laughed because I knew those numbers were still too low. But I also cried on the inside. The concept of calling an ambulance or going to the hospital unless it's life or death sounds foreign to me. And to that one dude, no we are not rich, $30,000 for a one night hospital stay would financially destroy most of us.
The way he said in Japanese was more like “well then you’d have to be rich in America” insinuating if you arent then you’d be financially destroyed as you correctly say 😭
And there are people in government who genuinely see no problem with this. God Bless America.
Our politicians gets the best health care because they literally create the laws and the benefits they want for themselves and paid for by our taxes.
No, they just don't care, even if they did they are too incompetent to do anything about it. Mostly they care about anything other than social media likes.
There are people in this comment section that see no problem with it! "America can do no wrong" fucktards
@@tankareno ...and their legalized political-corporate bribes from lobbyists whom are funded indirectly by the US citizenry's medical costs, paid through Medical Insurance & Pharmaceutical Corporate companies paying Senators, Representatives and Congresspersons to ignore & look the otherway on purpose, while screaming Socialism is Communism as an excuse for taking BRIBES,
@@tankarenothat's why american dream is lost.Even from government’s perspective,by fixing these problems can attract more intellectual engineers and scientists to us,they can make more money than the cost in medical expense by government
I watched a recent doco about "patient dumping" where they literally dump patients on the street in the middle of the night to make way for new patients. This isn't a flaw. It's just straight up greed..
They do that to the homeless people and Medicaid people who abuse the system. They literally go to the hospital every night for drugs, a bed, warm, tv, or other free crap. And guess who pays for them all to do that……
@@shasmi93Guess who should have had a home in the first place.
Man going to the doctor for a sore throat just hits different.
For me, salt water mouth rinse, some soup, and just rough it out.
Average life expectancies, developed nations with universal healthcare (ex-USA):
Japan, Hong Kong/Macau, Singapore: 85 (Japanese females: 88; males: 82)
South Korea, Italy: 84
[...]
USA: 77 (American females: 79; males: 73)
Life expectancy isn’t based on healthcare (it’s based on lifestyle - diet and exercise).
Sorry that you’re uneducated.
It's based on both diet, lifestyle AND healthcare.
It's better to compare USA and Australia as they have similar lifestyle and obesity levels, but totally different healthcare systems. Unsurprisingly, Australia beats USA in terms of life expectancy.
@@paranoidhumanoid nope, that is a lie. Just like you blatantly lied about the US being the highest in average household debt. Stop spreading misinformation.
@@fatherson5907 Nope. Yes to lifestyle and diet, but also healthcare bc people still get sick despite quality life and good diet. And good healthcare system increases life expectancy with high quality of life. In short, people don't choose to get sick or develope chronic illness. And not all citizens can afford the kind of for-profit health insurances that exist in the US. Not being able to afford private health insurance shouldn't be the reason for death or medical debt.
Btw, up here in Canada with similar lifestyle and diet to the US our life expectancy is 83.1.
as a Malaysian, as crappy as the waiting times in public hospitals are, i am grateful its immensely affordable... my father regularly needs heart medication and he collects them from the gov hospital dispensary and it only cost him less than 50 cent usd to collect his prescription. i once contracted dengue fever and had to be hospitalised. i was almost there for a week and i paid less than 20 dollars usd for my whole duration at the hospital. i recently did my digital mamogram and breast ultrasound at a private hospital and the whole thing cost me 460 malaysian ringgit (around 100 usd)
its insane a simple infection can put you into debt in the US. what is the land of dreams? its sad. a reform is definitely way overdue
As an Argentine living in Australia that had a chance to move temporarily to the US I see myself choosing Australia as a total win.
Don't get treated in the US. You'll end up with a drug resistant infection and they'll keep you in the hospital for months and keep charging you for things you don't need! It's like a horror film!
In saying that, Australia is on a bit of a slippery slope. At least we have the ability to wait and not just be dumped onto the streets. But it's still nowhere near the same level as Asian countries.
Australia is a pretty good balance. Has modern western values but also more egalitarian than the us
Getting out of Argentina was already a win lol
Im Australian and we just lost free "bulk billed" doctor visits since covid. Lots of things are covered by our medicare but its decreasing over time. Im afraid we are moving towards a US system. You are pushed to also get private health insurance, but its too expensive for me.
Maybe if The US starts caring more on their own citizens and focus on internal issues rather than funding weapons to other countries things can actually be better :|
Maybe if NATO paid what they agreed to pay, then the US wouldn’t need to protect them.
u.s is freedom country. freedom and equality is hardly to coexist together. more freedom the country has the more it behave like jungle , the survival of the fittest. which the strong can bully the weak easily.
better yet stop funding israel and start using those billions of dollars to help people at home
Unfortunately it's also our fault as citizens for not making it a priority for our elected politicians. So many Americans don't pressure politicians to even mention free healthcare at the bare minimum yet we still elect them. People think it's enough to vote for the president and forget the smaller local/state elections.
@@matty6878 less than 1% of the US budget goes toward foreign aid.
I went to the hospital last year with extreme pain in my back and side. My roommate drove me, since I knew it would cost me a huge amount to call an ambulance, but the pain was so intense I felt like I was actually going to die. When I got there, I was taken to a room, had my vital signs measured, and eventually I received an abdominal CT scan and an ultrasound. The CT scan discovered a kidney stone lodged in one of my ureters, but by the time I got in for the ultrasound, it had passed into my bladder and dissolved. I received no treatment, only diagnostics. The bill for my 6-hour stint in the hospital's waiting rooms was over $10,000. Fortunately, my health insurance picked up 90% of that, leaving me with a $1000 bill.
I was recently laid off, so now I don't have health insurance. I am desperately afraid of what could happen if I have to go to the hospital before I start a new job.
U should do the other way around …interview ignorant US citizen how much more reasonable healthcare in other part of the world… but their reaction probably be like “what?! There are other country beside US??” Or “but, we can carry gun!!!” 😂😂😂
Or interview ignorant peasant on how high taxes are in other countries.
But we get our healthcare for “free” 🤣🤣🤣
for real!!!
as someone stuck in the US, i would LOVE to see that video. it's truly astounding how many people don't realize that they're paying thousands of dollars for something that costs *maybe* hundreds in another country
I'd bet half of them think it's a good thing for one reason or another
@@annaairahala9462 you have a PM who did blackface and your healthcare system recommends euthanasia 🤣🤣🤣
I knew it was high, but I am still surprised by the amounts.. I’m so sorry for those who are too poor to afford health insurance in the US. It’s crazy!
It’s not those too poor for health insurance. The poor folks and homeless have Medicaid and go to the doc as much as they want for free. It’s the working class who have health insurance that get shafted….
Finding a company with great health coverage is so important (at least for my family and I). I also wanted to add that cost of living in your area can drive cost of medical. For reference, median annual income in my state county is 100k, so cost of living is high along with cost of medical care. 100k might sound like a lot somewhere else, but that’s middle class where I live. 3 nights at a hospital to deliver a baby via cesarean cost me and my baby $100. I delivered at one of the best hospitals for maternity care in my state too. No, I don’t have state assistance. No, I’m not rich. I have an employer that has high coverage.
Great interview. This is what you need to do more of!
Our US healthcare system is completely broken on every level. Recently, I was hit by a drunk driver and sustained medical injuries. I have had to pay all co-pays upfront because the car insurance won't pay until all my treatment is complete. I have had to pay hundreds of dollars already and now I need surgery. I don't know what I'm going to do to cover my co-pays for surgery and more physical therapy.
I would never live in the US.
I wish I could leave it.
@sailormoon5760 thats good to hear.
Trust me, you’re not missing much 😅
You wouldn’t last. We are a tough country with strong willed citizens. We are the world superpower for a reason. You’re welcome for all your medical advancements and sophisticated machines you have in your hospital… most of them came from us inventing them…
@@JEPiper ok.
I laugh at these answers, but it’s mainly to keep from crying, lol 😭😭
“Healthcare needs to change badly” - says a New Jersey citizen
A situation in Serbia. My mother is a retiree, 68 years old, and she spent two weeks in a hospital for covid and heart problems. The ambulance picked her up and took her to the ICU because she had troubles breathing, and the next day they transferred her to the covid section. She was hooked on a NIV for 24 hours. The total cost she had to pay from her pocket - 0$. The only insurance she has is a national insurance as a former employee and now a retiree.
Here in India🇮🇳 we get all these basic health care for FREE. Calling ambulance dial 108 and they are at your doorstep asap for free. 🇮🇳 We are growing and will keep.
In 2023 my friend spent 3 days in the hospital here in Oregon , USA for an infection. Just for crossing the emergency door was $1200. Just for stepping in. When he got his bill. The total bill was $35,000 for 3 days in a hospital.
Why didn’t he have insurance?
@@fatherson5907 Maybe he wasn't working at the time.
@@geddon436 At least 10 companies go bankrupt in America EVERY day! I wonder why these people who understand insurance but don't understand how many companies go bankrupt.
In Spain we pay 0€ per doctor's visit, 0€ if you go to the hospital, emergency or not, and 0€ no matter what procedure you get, from a simple cold to a major operation. That includes giving birth and others... And any prescribed medication we pay about 10% of the price. But I won't say it's "free" for us since we have like a "mandatory health care insurance" which we pay from our salaries (company about 25% and worker about 5%, but that includes health care, unemployment assistance and retirement salary among other uses). Kind of the japanese system, but we have 100% covered, not only 70%. Anyway, sounds pretty good to me, and even the japanese system is "rare" from my perspective by making me pay, so not to mention the US one....
Yes it has flaws, we have to wait a few days to get to the doctor, probably some months to get an operation (if critical, is obviously quicker), but we don't have to worry about "getting broke" and such hassels or being scared even to call for an ambulance... And you can always apply for a private one and pay extra for that. So, as someone could say, are "healthy" people paying for the "sick" ones? You could say that, but that is what an insurance is for, and I would be glad to do it anytime, would be for me or any of my close ones, be for whatever stranger, since you never know what could happen.
Ppl keep saying that waiting days to see dr /get treated is a negative of socialized medicine in other countries but Americans now ALSO wait MONTHS to see a dr and schedule surgeries/ appointments so what R the advantages here???. Clue: We don’t have any advantage. It’s a racket!
I'd like Asian Boss to do the same street interviews in other countries like Singapore, China, S Korea, Thailand, European nations, India, and even some poorer countries to see how the same treatment differs in an American healthcare system vs those countries above.
One flaw in your request… why would “Asian” Boss conduct interviews in “European” countries?
@@MarvelGeekify Why not and how is that considered a flaw? "Asian" Boss claims they bring news from all over Asia and if that's the case, "American" healthcare system is nothing related to Asia ,so why bother have this topic which isn't news from Asia. Your logic I assume is Europeans are not from Asia (hence the flaw you mentioned), but so is this topic about American healthcare.
@@ymhktravel Asian Boss is asking the natives of Asia countries (largely South Korea, since that’s where their headquarters is) their perpective on current events and topics. Sometimes it’s current news, sometimes it’s something random like asking them about America Healthcare. They’re no reason for them to ask about European countries anything if that’s not what they’re about…
Pretty sure Singapore healthcare costs way more than the US
@@UltraVioletMilk No country can compare to the US when it comes to healthcare costs. But being the richest country on Earth (and some say the Universe!) I'm sure everyone in the US including yourself would be too happy to pay for it.
When I was in Japan on vacation I ended up at a Japanese hospital in Kyoto because I came down with a horrible sinus infection and eye infection. After the consultation and medication, it cost me $60 USD total due to no insurance. I was expecting it to be at least a couple hundred dollars.
Even being a developed country has its own problems. I always advice my friends or colleagues who go to US for study to get yourself checked twice and go there completely healthy and avoid any sort of activities that might land you up in ER.
As a doctor myself it was my dream to work in US, but im glad i didnt go and stay in India where i completed my residency and now in Australia doing my fellowship and living a satisfied life
I'm an American who grew up here in Japan and I don't know what to do. My Japanese isn't good enough to work in a Japanese company so I might have to move to the U.S. But I'm absolutely terrified of the medical costs and how difficult it is the live in the USA. I don't know what to do...
The US has the strongest economy in the world. How about finding a job?
You’re so gullible. Pathetic.
You could work in Europe? There are plenty of multinationals where the main working language is English, some might be Japanese multinationals where your Japanese language skills might be useful in social settings and networking
@@SheelaghBouvier interesting suggestion. I might look into that
The USA is a death trap. You can visit but don't live there.
@user-cr3pn7rk2v You grew up in Japan but your Japanese is not good enough? How does that work? Did you only use English at an international school or something?
An appendectomy is $33,000 excluding lab fees at Beth Israel on 15th Street in NYC (with traveler's insurance that they won't accept). Healthcare here is simply disgusting.
So go to an in network hospital.
Wahhhhh you’re a victim 🤣🤣🤣🤣
No, you're the victim and brainwashed into thinking that you're getting a good deal in the US! And you seethe with jealousy. @@fatherson5907
The cost of an appendectomy in Indonesia today can be as low as $300. Plus staying 3 days in hospital maybe $500. If one has been paying the mandatory health insurance (premium $15/month tops), much of that can be waived. It depends on the type of hospital & the hospital room (class), though. I had an appendectomy in 2005 and was still insured (applies to 2 children of civil servants until either they're 21 or up to 25 if they're still an undergrad), so my parents only had to pay for around $100 for meds and stuff that weren't covered by the insurance. I stayed 3 nights at the hospital, I think. First class, so only 2 beds in the room, which would've been far more expensive than maybe a room with multiple beds. I can't imagine going to the US and having to pay hundreds of dollars for simple treatments.
@@lucthenerd and the average annual salary there is less than $7,000 🤣🤣🤣
@@ssalik3521Not if you have insurance and a proper job. Having a “proper job” and insurance in a less developed country will have you bankrupt, based on experience. I live and work in the US and I had to pay for the costs of my mom’s surgery (angioplasty + pacemaker) in the Philippines. The total cost was 20,000+ USD, and that includes 20% senior citizen discount, discounts from doctors’ fees, and government aid. Would it cost more in the US? Sure. BUT, living in a country like the Philippines doing the same job that I do here in the US, I could never afford that amount of money in my lifetime.. even if i live twice or thrice.
In the US, I see people living in trailer homes and shacks receiving immediate and expensive medical procedures. Some hospitals have high risk programs where they perform procedures for indigent clients without insurance for free!!! And they didn’t have to wait! I once treated a Mexican migrant who was involved in an MVA and she didn’t have insurance at all. Procedures that only the top 1% in developing countries could afford.
I’m not saying that healthcare system in the US is perfect. I’m just saying that in reality, it’s not as bad as how people make it out to be, if you factor everything in.
Very interresting interviews!
In Sweden we have the same system as Japan. Everything is "free" (paid by taxes), everyone gets the same healthcare, you dont need to be a millionaire to be sick.
My youngest daughter has Diabetes Type1, i would have to sell my car and my house to be able to help her in the USA.
Amazing USA....😂😂😂😂
And you also have the world’s highest taxes, horrible VAT, and the world’s highest average household debt.
“Free” things that you pay for 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Don’t forget to bow down to your queen 🤣🤣🤣🤣
The US is by far the holder of the world's highest average household debt. Everyone in the US uses credit cards for EVERYTHING. Including healthcare. Stop spreading misinfo! @@fatherson5907
Yes it’s free in Sweden but keep in mind if you’re a unique talent that earns you 100k Sweden may not be as desirable to live as the taxes will eat a whole lot of your income. However if you earn the average or below Sweden’s taxes aren’t as bad bcuz u get a whole lot of benefits
@@Astelch things you pay for aren’t free.
No such thing as free healthcare anywhere.
@@fatherson5907 well ive seen interviews that show that you earn more in the USA, but everything is far more expensive, housing etc and definatly healthcare, so I bet it evens out, although we are more humane
It was $4000 for an ambulance drive half mile to Saint Thomas Hospital West in Nashville TN.
Why didn’t you have insurance?
It doesn't guarantee coverage for ambulatory transport. You're a misinfo agent!@@fatherson5907
@@fatherson5907why does a half mile ambulance ride cost $4000? youre asking the wrong questions
@@sonofben3322 it doesn’t. The OP is clearly lying.
Average ambulance cost is $1,400 without insurance.
@@fatherson5907why are you defending a doomed system? Lol, this guy. You should be asking for change yet here you are. We're not dissing your country. We are pitying the citizens who have to pay so much just for a bare minimum service that should be free. Your enemy is your government who are failing you. Not us. Lmao
I love when we get to see one country's thoughts about another - very authentic perspective
- trying to get to this level with my videos!
Two of them absolutely nailed it, people just don't call an ambulance or go to the hospital when they absolutely would need it because it's prohibitively expensive out of pocket. Which is a shocking result, and shameful for us as a country really.
Republicans have blood on their hands. Yes, Republican voters too.
Im from Indonesia, for us to have medical checkup on local regional clinic, it cost around $1-$1,5 (med included)
If you got to medium hospital, without insurance, you spent around $5 (without med) and for specialist doctor around $10-$30 for one consultation with kight checkup. The insurance cost is free for poor citizen, and around $2 - $10 monthly for working class citizen.
But dont expect a high tech medical treatment like on the US!
I was expecting their system to be more affordable, but those prices and their frequency and reasons for getting care really blew me away. The idea of having a healthcare system that's not as for-profit is just boggling to me
It's really sad that you think non profit healthcare is mind boggling
The concept of preventive care is totally non-existent in the US. You only go to the hospital when it's a last resort.
When my daughter got sick (really bad cough) in Japan while traveling, I called a pediatrician in the area and they were able to see her on the same day, and it was 6300 yen (about 45 dollars) with no insurance. Sadly, with my high deductible plan in the US, an office visit with a PCP would cost me about 100 dollars with insurance and that's if they don't order labs or other extra stuff.
We pay 30 baht (100yen) for public hospitals in Thailand. No matter kind of sicknesses.
And it's only 1 myr (7.50 baht / 31 yen) for public hospitals in Malaysia
I was a little worried about my health a few years back and had identical bloodwork and CT scans done in Japan and the US. I did not have insurance in the US at the time, and the price differential was staggering. The blood test in Japan that was about 3200 yen out of pocket was $490 in the US, and the CT scan was 11,000 yen versus $3,400 including the consultation cost. They even charged $80 for the CT results report itself! Total insanity...
I am paying off a bill that is over $7000 right now. That's AFTER insurance. Before that, it was $14,000. I had to go to the ER in the middle of the night because of severe abdominal pain. They never diagnosed anything after tests and just told me to see my primary and sent me home. I only saw my doctor at discharge and didn't even get anything from him other than paperwork, which I had to go through myself to find out that it might, MIGHT had been an ovarian cyst bursting (though I can't be 100% sure). What a wonderful system we have, where a doctor can't/won't tell you what's wrong with you and still charges a massive fee
I hate our healthcare system, Baltimore Maryland
I had to get a biopsy for my liver 15+ years ago. All I can say is the medical bills and the charges were just a hair away from 6 digits. Insurance took care of most of it but I will never forget that ever and it was a real eye opener and have tried to live as healthy as I could since that day. The US healthcare system is truly a scary monster
Expensive healthcare is one brick in the wall of pain for the American consumer. Talk about the growing cost of rent, of home ownership, and how much we pay for bad food...
The "richest" country in the world but with some of the most poorest and most homeless. When they say rich they mean the elites that parasitically take the taxes of the poor.
Essentially why I left corporate America. Crazy country, guns, and healthcare.
Now you live in the most racist nation on the planet, where you will fit right in.
I am in japan without any insurance, had to do a full medical check up. From blood tests, xray, urine, MRI, and so many others. It took me one full day for the whole test. The bill was around $ 500. And my friends told me that's expensive.
In America, we are fooled into believing we are saving money excluding the needy from healthcare when we pay twice as much for it. By charging exorbitant prices, our doctors are seduced into thinking they should be rich and have opposed healthcare for all. We pay insurance companies when we are healthiest and have our lowest medical bills. When we are too ill to work or take care of ourself, we need to depend on our life savings and government aid. The government pays for 2/3 of all healthcare, but we have 30 million with no coverage at all and about 80 million who cannot afford healthcare because they have bad healthcare insurance with high deductibles and other out of pocket expenses. A sane system would have us chipping in when we are healthiest and working to cover us when we can’t care for ourselves any longer, we pay insurance companies instead. If we become disabled to an accident like a car accident, we lose our jobs and healthcare insurance, and will need to depend on government aid and our life savings. We also need to spend all our money until we are impoverished to qualify for government longterm care that requires hundreds of thousand of dollars a year. Medicare is underfunded and does not cover long term care.
My case as an example of medical expenses in Japan.
In the last month, I visited the hospital three times for a broken toe. X-rays were taken once each time.The total payment was about $30.Public medical insurance is $40 per month. Twenty years ago, I gave birth and the accompanying 5-day hospital stay (in Japan, 5 days for a natural birth and 10 days for a cesarean section is normal), and the bill was $2,500.However, I received $3,500 from the local government because I submitted the birth certificate issued by the hospital to the municipal office.This includes the congratulatory money from the local government for diapers and milk.
My 80-year-old mother's case: public medical insurance is also $40.Private insurance is $100 per month.
One month hospitalization requiring dialysis: no dialysis fee, hospitalization, treatment, and medication cost about $500.However, she received $800 from private insurance. Charged $150 for cataract surgery on both eyes. However, she received $700 from private insurance.
Wow, 5 days in the hospital after a natural birth? My son and I were kicked out of the hospital when he was barely 12 hours old here in the US.
@@2shedstooYes, my daughter was born in the afternoon so I was kicked out the next morning.
@2shedstoo that's horrible .
@@txgirl05 Yep, Charlie was born at 13 minutes after midnight, and we had to leave at lunchtime.
Overnight stay after birth at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach CA 20 years ago cost $20000 with insurance.
genuinely curious how america's population still growing when even giving birth is expensive af . 18000 usd would discourage me to even dream about having kids
It’s not $18k to give birth. How gullible are you to believe that nonsense? 🤣🤣🤣
this is why american GDP is the highest. not because the people are rich. but because everything are super expensive.
The US has the second highest average net salary of any nation.
You’re uneducated.
It would be interesting to see what Japan and the rest of Asia think of Australia
This is the reason health insurance has to be a thing. Honestly I saw my bill once and it was insane but for one medication it was over $600 US and yeah it’s insane to me. Some hospitals actually post a $30 US fee for a tissue. We do have some ways of cost reduction like doing a billing item inventory as some services which weren’t done should not be on the list and would be taken off. You may also have charges that are too high for some reason so an item check could reduce the cost. Always ask for an itemized check when you get the bill as sometimes the hospital accidentally overcharges because they haven’t switched to the computer system yet or the software might be outdated.
Fortunately I have insurance and it helps a lot.
In China, an ambulance call is about $80- $100, a hospital registration fee is about $3, and if it's just a cold or stomach ache, the total cost is about $20. Last year, I had a rectal polyp removal operation in the hospital, and the total cost of the operation, including hospitalization expenses, was about 1,500 US dollars. Because my company pays the mandatory employee medical insurance, I only paid about 600 US dollars, which is about half of my monthly salary after tax.
What this vlog doesn't review is how much a month is health insurance in the US ? Sure without health insurance most will get a huge bill they can never repay, but also even with health insurance it costs around $800usd/month for good basic coverage so if you have a family of 3 that would be $2400usd every month !
Love your videos ❤
At one point I didn't have any health insurance and I had to go to the hospital for 4 days and got an MRI and steroids via IV every 4 hours. I told them I didn't have any insurance and they just said "don't worry, we'll work it out". I didn't have to pay anything.
Now I'm lucky to have Medicaid insurance. I don't pay anything for doctor or hospital visits or prescriptions. Regular dental visits are free and I get a big discount on other dental work. Eye doctor visits are free and one pair of glasses per year but right now I can't find anyone who accepts the insurance for glasses.
Man i knew it was bad in the us but $1200 for an ambulance? 18k for giving birth? that is completely insane (here all care for mothers and kids is free and i think an ambulance might cost $20, but that fee can be waived as well)
You actually believe people are paying 18k for giving birth 🤣🤣🤣
@@fatherson5907 lol then maybe you should ask new mothers around you. US is fvcked and we all know it.
@@outplaygamingguild7916I can look at the objective data.
The maximum out of pocket by law is $8k.
You’re just ignorant and believe anything you hear online. Your upbringing was a joke.
@@fatherson5907 if they dont have insurance they are but like most americans have insurance
@@xsuploader That's the thing, some people work but they don't have insurance and some do but doesn't cover enough or anything at all ( the infamous "you're out of network so you pay") . Even with insurance the cost is still expensive compared to Japan. I recently had a dental visit and with insurance it still cost me over $800.
Unless you start by giving any overview of how taxes affect healthcare costs and take home pay, this conversation seems misleading to me.
For example: A family with a take home pay of $100k in the U.S. would pay ~$23k in income tax (even less if claiming dependents) whereas in Japan they would pay ~$36k in income taxes. Your take home pay in Japan is $13k less. Most health insurance annually is less than $13k, so most of the time you end up saving more money annually in the U.S. due to lower taxes at that income level (which you can save up for a emergency if needed, though insurance should cover a large portion of healthcare costs). Private healthcare in Japan can still cost $330 - $370 per month. In addition to the higher taxes you pay.
There of course is a break even at some point where a lower income compared between US and Japan does not see tax savings that offset the higher healthcare costs in America, but even at $40k a year, you save $4k in taxes compared to Japan that could go towards better health insurance and provide better coverage to reduce any potential healthcare costs.
Plus, with decent health insurance, you can go get surgery basically whenever you want in the U.S., whereas many countries with more universal healthcare have a long queue if the surgery is not deemed urgent (this is coming from someone whose in-laws live in Australia and who has coworkers in the UK that often complain about the healthcare for specialists).
It’s mainly those that do not have health insurance that get screwed by the U.S. system (although if you picked them up and placed them in Japan, they’d earn less money and likely deal with a higher cost of living over there.. except healthcare).
Not saying which way is right or wrong. But both systems have clear benefits for different groups of people.
Good on you for writing a cogent argument rather than just spitting random "read it on the internet" pseudofacts. Now use data for your waiting list argument rather than anecdotes and your argument is more compelling.
If we're duelling anecdotes, I'm Australian, was paying the same tax as you say is normal in the US, and have never had problems getting medical treatment in my 50 years in the country. Top extras and medium hospital additional cover cost me 2.5k pa for a family of 5.
Private health insurance is literally NOT necessary for almost of Japanese citizen.
And employee's spouses who don't work or low paying and their children don't have to pay national insurance for family allowance(But free lance's spouses and children have to..it's not fair🥺)
Giving birth is acutually out of insurance itself, so room charge and painless childbirth is not free like Australia.
Maybe single people are not good as married people.
Just curious, for the case of someone earning $40k a year and getting $4k in tax savings being spent on health insurance instead - how much would an ambulance call cost you after the insurance kicks in? What about for a visit to the hospital to see the doctor? Or a day surgery? How much closer will it be compared to the cost in Japan?
Because these are the people who would most likely be unable to pay large amounts for the balance after insurance (since most insurance plans have limits on the maximum that can be claimed, especially when the insurance plans are of lower cost).
@@skygaz3r I think it will certainly be dependent on the health insurance. My insurance is quite expensive for my wife and daughter in my opinion (I pay about $600 per month), but with that, I have gotten 2 free MRIs, my wife has gotten a free MRI, our routine check ups are free, I’ve spent $40 per visit when doing physical therapy, gave birth to our daughter and only had to pay ~$500 when after we were billed $37k. Amongst other savings for prescriptions.
I logged into my insurance portal, and it looks like I have to pay 10% of ambulance costs, so in the example provided in the video, that would be $120. Keep in mind that the insurance provider will usually have a list of criteria that needs to be met to be considered medically necessary.
In terms of “maximum coverage”, I’ll need to look into that. My insurance and all the insurances have had the past actually have an annual out of pocket maximum that can be spent by the person or family insured. Mine is $6k for an individual and $12k total for a family. So even if I develop a deadly disease and need the most expensive treatment the US provides, the most I will pay per year is $6k individually. The rest will be covered by insurance until the new year resets. Since my company provides long term medical leave (I believe this is required to an extent by companies), I would still be getting paid a salary whilst going through this theoretical treatment even if I wasn’t working.
It sounds like you're saying the US healthcare system benefits higher earners through lower taxation at the expense of the poor and vulnerable. That doesn't sound like a morally defensible system.
Americans aren’t rich, we either go into debt for healthcare or go bankrupt or, sometimes, die.
I believe the main reason we think national healthcare will have worse service is because the state healthcare provided for low income people is pretty awful. The fees are covered by the state but the waits are long and often doctors don’t seem at all concerned with finding what is wrong. We just assume that other countries experience the same or worse, since their system serves more people.
So why does the US have far lower average household debt than other countries?
nice this have a community forum!
There is a youtuber that had to be flown out of a forest with a helicopter because of health problems... she got a bill of $65 k 😂... but luckily, she had insurance...
I live in Germany and I never have to pay for the doctor... we are a family of four and we pay $250 per month for all of us...
Some Americans criticize that we have to wait way longer for an appointment, which is possible, though I personally never had a problem with that, but we can also pay cash like in the US and have an appointment in 1 or 2 weeks...
So we can go for free and wait, or pay... or we can go to the ER for free, but we obviously can't go there because we coughed twice the day before
here on germany it's the same as in japan - we pay for healthcare through taxes and have to pay a similar amount for the things mentioned on the video as in japan. i was shocked when I heard about the prices in the US for the first time. they really need change their healthcare system, people going broke bc they are sick is crazy
I'm in the US and the prices they quoted for care here sounded low to me. My son sustained minor injuries when he was hit by a car several years ago. The emergency room bill for an exam, 2 x-rays and 12 stitches was over $32,000. The six-block ambulance ride was billed separately at $2500.
@@2shedstoo that's crazy. how is one even supposed to afford this... you have to pay all this by yourself or is there a possibility of a insurance covering most of it? or are people just in debt for their whole life bc of medical treatments? hope your son is well!!
@@Miniya
Thanks to the ACA, he was still on my husband's insurance through his employer. However, he was taken to an out-of-network hospital, so we received all the bills and had to forward them to our insurance provider. That's how I know the breakdown of the bills. He was 24 at the time and his employer did not offer any benefits. If not for the ACA we would have been responsible for the entire amount.
@@2shedstooHow much did you all end up paying in the end?
It costs nothing if I am using public healthcare system and around $15 - $50 for consultation in private hospital (even with specialist doctors). I found our system is really good now after I heard US healthcare system are so so so expensive like that.
I need reminders like this every so often just how insane the US system is. I remember when I finally got my kokumin hoken my first month in Japan and just how much of a relief it was. It's impossible to describe the overwhelming sense that if you're in an accident in the US, it's better to die than be in debt.
Everyone talks about health care costs, nobody talks about the wretched quality. US doctors require US doctor licenses, and those require "knowledge" made with horrible methodology. US medical care will give you a pill instead of a good diet plan, it will give you medical treatment instead of prescribe physical exercise, it's designed to sell you drugs. You can get top notch care if you are rich, but the best doctors don't take medicare and probably won't take your standard insurance either, not the best ones at least, unless you got cadillac insurance (very expensive but high quality). But wait, it gets worse. People who are not professionals often are legally banned from giving you advice to help you avoid needing medical care.
Sure the health care is expensive, but the worst part is how they railroad you into it. It's not good healthcare. They even fired the healthcare workers that didn't get untested experimental vaccines. The entire industry is messed up, and you might get better care from illegal drug smugglers, er I mean undocumented pharmacists.
The reality is most people will not go to a doctor for a lecture on healthy lifestyle choices. They just want pills to quick fix their blood pressure, cholesterol and whatnot, without having to do any work (diet, exercising, quit smoking & drinking...). If they walk out the doctor's office without pills, they'll be angry. Who can blame the system for giving what people demand, even if it's not in their best interest? For the people by the people right? They got what they want.
@@jennyspersonal wait, it gets worse. czcams.com/video/jSYctIjolgs/video.htmlsi=1LK3_YwfXMl0bC02
What do you think the possibility is that people were deliberately programmed in school and by media to be a certain way? Can you say dead at any size?
The US had some of the worst quality in care depending on your condition. Also, because of religious zealots you can't access life-changing treatments such as *stem cell therapy* in the US or anti-cancer vaccines like Cimavax. It's so backwards here!
@@jennyspersonalTell the whole story, bro. The US pays its workers too little to afford healthy food and gives them too little time off to exercise. For a doctor to lecture them about that would simply add insult to injury.
You had me until the vaccines part
Hi, I’m from America. My liver and kidney transplant is a little over 1m alone.
Why don’t you have insurance?
Years ago I had a kidney stone that in the end only cost me around $2500 to get surgery before they would even do it, $1000 for 2 ER visits and an MRI scan. The total surgery bill was $60,000 to have it lasered. I was sent several bills from the physicians separately as well. I couldn't pay them since right beforehand I was laid off and couldn't get unemployment. No insurance. I had to wait in excruciating pain for an entire month because it couldn't be done sooner and it was large enough that I felt like I was dying any time it was moving. They've since written that cost off cuz I was never gonna afford that. My great experience with US healthcare has made me despise it and no one can tell me its great. Too costly when I did have insurance and hardly worth paying that much when u don't make that much.
in Indonesia there is an insurance program from the government called BPJS, and the cost is only Rp. 150,000 or less than $10 USD, and the insurance covers almost all illnesses, even giving birth is free in Indonesia if registered with BPJS, my father has a health check every month at the hospital, and doesn't pay for anything including medicine and insulin for 1 month's supply, in fact hospitalization is also free. Indonesia, which is not a developed country, can be cheap, why is it only America that is expensive?
And yet, when I have lived in other countries they are always asking me 'why don't you want to live in the US anymore?' Then I tell them about the laundry list of problems just being a citizen both domestically and abroad. While the country seems like a fun and wild place, it is also very poorly organized for their people. That is why I live in the Nordics now and plan on gaining citizenship elsewhere if the offer presents itself.
Yes, you want to live in racist countries because you hate diversity. Nothing more than that.
Do this in every country you have teams able to do them in.
The only way we gain better perspectives here is to see other places in the world with similar living standards, but who aren't being gouged for life's maintenance.
Someone above commented that they should ask Americans what they think the cost of health is over in other places and then see their reactions when they realize they are being played.
@@GoodwillWrightthen do taxes and see how much this “free” healthcare costs
@@fatherson5907 No such thing as "free" healthcare.
@@GoodwillWright agreed.
@@fatherson5907 Can't say much about Japan or America, but Australia, private or public healthcare is both exploitative. You just simply decide which one you'd rather be exploited by.
I don't live in Japan but West Asia / Eastern Europe, and ambulances are free here (paid by govt.). Out of pocket costs for healthcare (if you just pay cash, no insurance) are about 10%-50% of the cost for _only the insurance co-pay_ on the same procedure in the US.
Things you pay for aren’t free. You’re ignorant.
It's basically free where I'm from. Well, it used to be free but since 2000s they started charging $1 (about 0.70 usd) per registration and I remember people complaining lol. But that $1 would include EVERYTHING no matter what disease or treatment you have (e.g. a cold where you just meet a doctor and leave -- all the way to dialysis, heart transplant, coma for 10 years etc).
American healthcare is insanely expensive but still the best quality in the world. We do the best medical research and have the most unique and rare surgeries and treatments, along with the best facilities. But it's all so unbelievably expensive it will put you into debt unless you have good healthcare. Big pharma companies here are to blame. If they could be taken down and free competition could occur again, the prices of medicine would significantly drop. Also, healthcare and the right to life should be a basic human right anyways and the government should guarantee at least basic free healthcare.
emm nope 😂..you can google it..The US is not the best..look it up yourself,US is not even in the top 10 for the best health care in the world 🫣..Even if the US is the best,which the US is not,theres no point in having the most advanced or the best healthcare in the world if most of the citizens cant even afford it🤭
@@MrBombastic_007what is your source for that claim? Google is not a source.
94% of Americans have health insurance. What is the source for your statement that most can’t afford it.
I’ll wait 🤣🤣🤣
@@MrBombastic_007I beg to differ. The cardiologist/electrophysiologist that performed my cardiac ablation is well renowned in the US and Europe. Yes it was expensive but I was fortunate to have a doctor who is a trailblazer in his field. With that said, we have great insurance but our monthly premium is ridiculous. There has to be a better way. What that is? I don’t know. The system is definitely broken.
@@fatherson5907 94% of americans have health insurance?🤣..what is your source for that?..make sure you dont take the source from any google site🤣🤣🤣🤣..oh yeah most cant afford it,thats why a lot of americans go to other country to get medical care.
@@lacrossemom yeah..the system is definitely broken. If only the government doesn't use all the tax money to support israel for so many years, they can use that money to subsidize the medical cost in america.
Flfc!!! Love ur channel keep going ❤
Japanese people complain a lot about their salaries being relatively low (still higher than in my country, despite everything here being considerably more expensive), but apart from fruits and shinkansen (bullet trains) I think they have one of the best purchase power rates in the world...they still make 1800-2500$ a month (around 1200-2000$ in my country) and everything is extremely cheap...you can eat a healthy meal in a restaurant for like 700 yen, which is around 5-6 $, whereas in my country you would need at least 30$ for the same quality and the same amount of food, bills are also extremely low and even houses are not that expensive anymore ... As a matter of fact I often hear Japanese people saying that they manage to save around 20-40% of their salaries every month, but in my country it's been a long time since I heard anyone being able to save even 5% of their revenue
Japanese people are right to complain because “slightly less poor than [other country]’s poor people” is still poor.
1500 dollars for calling the ambulance is already a very cheap price. My friend who got involved in a terrible motorcycle accident was charged around 3000 dollars.
Having a health crisis in US would be the end. Id just stop living rather than be in that enormous debt
The US has lower average household debt than the EU and UK.
You’re ignorant and gullible.
god I hate it here in the US
That’s because you’re an entitled and privileged westerner with an easy life that you still fail miserably at, so you desperately seek out imaginary victimhood to avoid taking responsibility for your failures.
4:35 perfect choice of words there
I went to the hospital maybe 5 times last year. 2 of those times I was hooked on an electrocardiogram. Then I also went to a cardiologist to do ultrasound on my heart. (Was fine). I even went to a therapist for cognitive behavioral therapy (health anxiety). All I paid was 100$ total because after 100$ its completely free. Its crazy to think that it would cost atleast 50k in the US
Wow, which country are you from? If I may ask.
Sweden!@@skygaz3r
Nope, it would be covered by insurance in the US.
You have the highest taxes in the world and you have amongst the highest average household debt of any nation.
You actually allow a monarchy in 2024. 🤣🤣
You’re a joke.
its a good thing i live in canada
Yeah, where you’ll wait years for a doctor to recommend deleting yourself 🤣🤣🤣
Yeah, aside from the atrocious waiting times, it is pretty decent.
If you are low income, health insurance is free in the states. Medicare and medicaid covers it. If you are middle income, you better find a good company that give good and low health insurance coverage. If you get fired or out of job, go apply for free health insurance.
yeah like getting a check up takes up about a month..... US health care system sucks
healthcare is a right and should be accessible to all
lol why didn't we think of that!
I am below poverty and can't even get my state to contact me back about this so called free health insurance (Medicaid). I have been uninsured for over 8 years.
To give a bit better context with how the healthcare system works, the costs to a patient and the costs to an insurance company really depends on a lot of factors. Even I as an adult woman have trouble following everything and it for sure can suck.
It will depend on your insurance plan, how old you are, if you're single/married, if you have kids etc. or if you even have an insurance plan at all. The ones who have no health insurance absolutely will be billed the full amount of the treatments.
Not all Americans are rich. If you're unable to pay as far as I know (and my mom is a retired nurse) no one would turn you away for medical treatment. But you will accrue "medical debts".
Many parties view health insurance here as something to be earned, not a right for everyone to have. It's a complicated subject, with a lot of hands in the pot, and so that's how we have the system we have today. I have my own views on it, but I worry for how expensive everything is even if you have great insurance, and I'm concerned for the future for my (and other people's) children.
My current prescription cost for a single medicine is $147 per month. That is with insurance. It is insane and unacceptable. This is for a medicine I need to be able to function and live
this survey is a little misleading since all the prices are for paying out of pocket without considering the services the government does provide. first most people in the US has insurance, which for the most part cuts down on these costs. second those who do not have access to insurance either due to poverty or being unemployed can apply for government subsidized healthcare programs such as federally funded medicaid, or various state funded programs like medi-cal. these programs offers low cost to free health insurance.
the biggest problem with the US healthcare system is that the middle class has the worst deal. those who are in poverty can take advantage of government subsidized healthcare, and those with good jobs or are financially stable have employer sponsored healthcare. its the middle class working not-so-great jobs that gets screwed due to the employers only offering terrible insurance programs in order to save money. but at the same time making too much money to qualify for government subsidies.
there are tons of real problems with US healthcare, but this video is making the wrong points, as nobody really pays those prices.
The statistics are misleading. Most Americans have had coverage at some point, but if you count current active coverage, it's likely far much lower at approx. 75%, not the 92% you always see or hear about. If the US healthcare system were really that comprehensive, our life expectancy (77 years) would be higher than Japan's which is still the world's highest at 86 years.
Don’t tell it to us; tell it to your poor. And don’t come crying to me when they kick you in the genitals.
Health insurance companies should never be publicly traded.
Wow that's really interesting I didn't know
wait, seriously, "the average Japanese person goes to the doctor 13-14 times a year"??????? WHAT? WHY? That's overuse. Maybe twice a year... or maybe this is "average" as the very young and very old go A LOT MORE than average. That seems insane to me (US).
When you don't have an artificial scarcity of doctors plus a superior public service and transport system, it's very easy to see a doctor multiple times for Japanese people.
@@GoodwillWright - but I ask, "Why?" Why see a doctor more than a few times a year unless you have a serious problem requiring frequent treatment? I guess a broken arm/leg/bone might be 10+ times in a few months, but normal people don't need so much doctoring
I think they are very proactive and preventative in their care than the average American is. They take colds and other illnesses very seriously. The US doesn’t really advertise preventative care which can lead to us having major issues like heart attacks, diabetes, ect…
@@Jim73well if it's not stupidly expensive it's better to be safe than sorry. Preventive check ups are not a bad thing. Remember health is one of the most valuable things you have.
@@MinishMilly a check-up costs. Time, education, facility costs.