MA Town Hall: #1 European Universal Health Care vs. America's Private Health Insurance

[Emmets]

Not only a liar, but also a liar that loves a system that can take her to bankrupcy... Please, if someone want to have a REALISTIC debate about public healthcare versus private health care, come to Europe and check our system before talk...

[unnerum]

OMG, she's a liar!

You pay 19.3 % of your income (max assessment basis is € 4110, over that you only get charged 19.3 % of € 4110) to the social security. This includes full health care, accident insurance and a retirement insurance.

And they would have paid for her shoulder surgery and there is no way her uncle, I doubt he even exists, would not get a lung transplant. Remembers me of Arnie stating he ran away from the communists in Austria...

-An austrian living in Los Angeles.

[expatdk]

she's very misinformed about the austrian system... or she's deliberatley lying

[haplo888]

expatdk is from Denmark, funny that he thinks he knows the Austrian system better than somebody who lived there for 19 years and still has all her family there.

[haplo888]

Nice to hear the perspective from somebody who has lived under both systems.