America Changed Me and Europe Was Wrong [video]
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A few more trains would be nice too.
By building a huge byzantine bureaucracy around everyone trying to get someone else to pay for it, we've driven up the cost (now we're paying for the health care plus all sorts of insurance administration and all their lobbyists and so on). By hiding the costs we've deprived ourselves of the ability to comparison shop. By opening the door to third parties we've taken a simple transaction between doctor and patient and added lawyers, private equity, government and who knows who else, and each and every one of them is taking their cut of the money.
I agree trains are cool.
> By hiding the costs
It's also called externalization of cost(!) and a systemic problem under capitalism. Im afraid there is no quick fix to this like removing directly involved third parties from health care processes, because like in any economy, the upstream suppliers to the healthcare sector are as profit driven as your current adminstrational layer. You would just push the sympthom around.
From a german perspective, the US has speedrun a process, most of the EU countries are in too, just boiling the frogs slower. You have increasing cost and/or degrading services while budget considerations are always at the front of it. (Behind that is imo top-down fiscal pressure coming from our monetary/banking systems more aligned with the profit seekers.) If germany would reinvent its health care system from scratch in todays neoliberal climate, we'd end up with something very similar to the US, if at all. But since the german public has adopted price expectations, our services get cut to death a million times instead of moon pricing.
EDIT: The video is too shallow to touch broader systemic explanations, so it cant see similarities aswell.
Also, "United States" would be just as ambiguous by your logic considering there has been multiple countries with it in their official name.
Sorry for correcting grammar. But being from one of the previous colonies, one desires to be a master of English and help others also to master it.
We emigrate to a country from our own country.
And other people immigrate into our country from some outside country.
An immigrant is one who arrives and moves into a place or country.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/immigrate
An emigrant is one who leaves and moves out of a place.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/emigrate
This distinction is very clear and has really never been a problem for people who understand language. The English Wikipedia has somehow managed to fuck it up beyond all recognition, so congratulations! You're one of Today's Lucky 10,000!
It's funny to me people are only discovering this about America now whereas a whole generation of 1st gen parents of current Americans discovered it in earlier waves, the tech waves, etc.