Comments by "" (@shauncameron8390) on "Why Germany's health care system is in crisis (and how the government plans to fix it) | DW News" video.

  1. Fewer people who work and produce and too many people in need of social assistance.
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  2. <If you don't come up with the money you don't get the care.> Actually yes you do. <Healthcare is not a business. Tell that to the German government.
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  3. High taxes have a weird way of protecting the rich and big business.
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  4. Wrong! This is state-run healthcare running its natural course.
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  5. Not really.
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  6. No. Austerity is the consequence of government mismanagement of finances and nationalization.
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  7. Actually it's underpopulation. Germany has too many old people and they have to be replaced at some point.
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  8.  @thelostcosmonaut5555  <housing crisis or ecological disasters brought on by corporate greed> Enabled and facilitated by government greed.
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  9. America's hospitals have little on Canada's hospitals when it comes to being at the breaking point. More Canadians go to the US than Americans go to Canada for healthcare.
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  10. The state-appointed administrators and bureaucrats.
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  11. It is. Looks like Germany's public system ran out of other people's money to fund it.
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  12. No. This is the end result of nationalization. Inefficiency and mismanagement.
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  13.  @Berlina18  <And there are no alternative options in the system.> Because they're outlawed.
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  14. Universal healthcare made possible by US largesse. I fear for Scandinavia should the US decide to stop protecting them and Russia invades.
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  15. Part of the reason why countries with universal healthcare have high taxes. To support bureaucrat and administrator salaries.
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  16. But the money has to come from somewhere to pay for the facilities, supplies, equipment, staff, utility bills, maintenance and repairs, etc.
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  17. Um. No. Not having children is part of why Germany in this mess. Too many old folks and not enough children to replace them.
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  18. The same 700 billion that protects the likes of Germany, Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, the Persian Gulf and Scandinavia.
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  19. What privateers? Healthcare in Germany is state-run.
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  20. Germany's healthcare system is government-run.
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  21. @Hatsross12 Actually yes they can. Only 11.4% can't.
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  22. But apparently is running out of other people's money to keep it going.
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  23. Just like socialism and social democracy (a socialist idea by the way).
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  24. No. The problem is just Western. Too many old people and not enough babies.
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  25. Exactly
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  26. Not really.
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  27. Exactly.
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  28. But in Germany, it's government greed bringing about its downfall.
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  29. We already have that.
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  30. Wrong! Try 11.4%.
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  31. The government licks them, because corporations are the reason why they have a tax base to fund the social programs.
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  32. And even greedier governments. Germans paying over 50-plus % of their earnings in taxes.
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  33. No. Only in Western countries. Who knew that social democracy wasn't sustainable having and attracting too may freeloaders with not enough contributors?
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  34. Why? Those seeking to live in Germany need to up their German game.
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  35.  @golden.lights.twinkle2329  Question: can anyone recall a time when welfare states or better yet any country that prided itself in being socialist had open borders?
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  36. But Germany is barely even capitalist to begin with.
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  37. But South Korea is in the same boat as Japan. Too many old people and not enough young people to replace them.
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  38. In response to locals foregoing having children in favor of career and lifestyle thinking they'll forever be 30.
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  39. Well, it's better than the communism that bankrupted them.
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  40. Not really.
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  41. LOL. No! Government meddling is.
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  42. When you have too many people in need and not enough people contributing.
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  43. Not according to their government employers.
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  44. No. This is just a Western problem. Too liberal for its own good.
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  45. Germany's healthcare is government-run. The only shareholders are bureaucrats and state-appointed administrators.
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  46. <but it's also true that Germany (much like Japan) has spent almost nothing on its military for decades; > Thanks to the US.
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  47. Pretty much.
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  48. That's slowly going bankrupt because they're running out of other people to tax.
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  49. There is no perfect system. And universal healthcare doesn't just suffer from corruption and mismanagement but also shortages be it in funding, staffing or supplies.
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  50. While American conservatives are once again proven right. There is no such thing as free stuff.
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  51. No. And not even close. It's just universal healthcare running tis natural course.
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