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Why not name the country?

The Czech Republic, it's even worse in Poland, Hungary and Slovakia (personal experience); I also have even more horror stories about the Czech system - right now I'm waiting for the third month to finally get a bad tooth checked (and I will have to pay around $500 if I don't want the tooth simply extracted, no other option covered by insurance is available).

On the other hand I had extremely good experience with cheap private healthcare in Ukraine. I wasn't brave enough to test their public system.

Sorry I didn't mention it, I thought I did but I mentioned just the currency.

Sorry to hear about your experiences. On the other hand, I'm from Australia, and it's absolutely not the case here.

Healthcare could always be better funded, but here it's honestly amazing compared to other places I've seen.

I'm not denying that certain public systems work good or even great - there is Germany just next to my country with their excellent system (it's getting worse according to my German friends though, but I'm not sure about that, I don't have enough first-hand experience). I'm arguing that there is less motivation in a public system so it could easily lead to bad situations, but of course sometimes it doesn't.

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