Comments by "SaBa" (@saba1030) on "Why Germany's health care system is in crisis (and how the government plans to fix it) | DW News" video.

@lhmsc When you're paying about €700 per month for your healthcare than your salary must be pretty good, as the monthly healthcare fee is ALWAYS A FIXED PERCENTAGE of your salary, apart from you have private insurance. But as you're saying, that your employer is paying the other half, than it's the fixed percentage. That hospitals have "weird" opening times is only for visitors, visiting people in hospital, not though for AE, thats open 24/7. What could be, that the hospital were you live, decided, that people, instead of going to the GP, "plastering" the AE with banal issues, don't get treated anymore, as they are "stuffing up" the AE, while the real emergencies get hindered to be treated. Add on: all doctors are in duty to have one day a week with so called "open consultation". You need to "bring" a bit of time with you as it's without appointment, but inner one week you would be able to see the doctor ...
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@balsdsa The German healthcare system isn't financed by tax. Every month a percentage (14,6 %, shared equally by employer/employee or pensioner/ gvts pension fund 7,3%/7,3 %) gets deducted off the salary/pension by the health insurance/system.
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@Existence-zy4gb Do you live in Germany? If you have SEVERE health problems (not some, which you're "carrying" around for weeks because you couldn't be bothered to go to your average doctor), you get treatment immediatly.
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@balsdsa The average deduction from the gross salary is about 34%, including tax and the fees for health-, social-, unemployment- and retirement insurance. But parts of it you can "write off" at the yearly tax declaration. Add on: you can't compare the German welfare system with the British one/or others, as you're pretty much "pampered" due to this system. I can say that, because I married into an English family. There are worlds between those two systems ...
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@MTknitter22 To be honest, I don't know what that Brazilian guy is talking about. The German health system still is of a very high quality, problem is, at the moment lots of staff are ill as well and the higher energy costs are "squeezing" the average running costs. Not at all comparable with the UK, nowhere near it (got friends in the UK).
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What, and the German speaking patients have to talk about their health problems in English? That would REALLY help :-((
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@Vieve Tv LOL In need of staff you want to "double up" the non speaking German doctor/ nurse by a translator? Btw, only because somebody speaks casual English (or any other language) doesn't necessarily mean that you can translate " professionell medical talk". Doesn't work for any language, btw. Typo
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@shqiperia60 Right, lets say, I come to Albania with only being able to speak any foreign language in health service?! Really helpfull when doctors/ nurses don't understand the patients and vice versa ....
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@matthewbaynham6286 I'm sorry to hear that and I wish you all the best ! Are you living in Germany? My experience is, when you have your GP, you get appointments straight away, in case of urgent things I can come by in half an hour. And that's all the time like that. Never had to wait for one year to have a blood test or other tests done, apart from the doctor said that the next check up on that issue should be done in one year again.
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@shqiperia60 Well, I had already bad experience with the "language issue", as I needed the AE (was sent there from my GP), and the, very friendly and ambitioned doctor at the AE could only speak rural English, which was really hard/difficult to understand (even for me with half of my family being native English), so it took a while (and that as an emergency!!) until the/my issues "were sorted". Wouldn't want to know, how it would be for people with less or none language skills. We don't talk about engineering for machinery here or Architecture. In the worst somebody could suffer because of wrong treatment or die.
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@shqiperia60 Great, but again: for medical professions the staff should be able to speak the language of the country you're living/ working in. Hotels, Restaurants or whatever I wouldn't mind ... All the best to you, have a nice day 😉
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@shqiperia60 :-((( I'm really sorry to hear that !! Wishing your mother all the best and lots of health and a quick relief !! Are there alternative/ other doctors/ hospitals where you could go to instead?
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@shqiperia60 Think positive ! All will turn out good 😉
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@lhmsc Add on: about "xenophobia" and giving blood - ALL NGOs or others, where you can give blood (and believe me, blood is always needed urgently), are in duty to test the given blood upfront, to make sure, that NO ILLNESSES get passed on via blood transfusion or blood plasma. Before I went to Brazil I needed to get certain vaccinations done, otherwise I wouldn't have been allowed to enter Brazil. Is that xenophobia as well? No, it's to protect people to catch/ or bring in unwanted illnesses. In case you have chronicle deseases/illnesses, you're also not allowed to give blood, as well as protection for the people which will receive that blood. I wouldn't want to get blood, which would save my life that minute, finding out later on, that I "received" an illness with that transfusion as well. I guess, you wouldn't like that either.
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@lhmsc Me again 😉 With working remote I probably would move somewhere more pleasing. On the other hand you've probably build up a circle of friends, which is nice as well. Portugal has nicer weather and the people there are speaking your language. Too many options make decisions difficult sometimes. If you stay in Germany, I would suggest to stay in the West (North or South). May be take some days off and visit your "favorits" under the aspect of "could I live here". This is what I tend to do to get the atmosphere of that city etc . Whatever you decide:I wish you all the best 😉
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@lhmsc 😉 Very good !! Sunny greetings from Bremen 😉
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@greentea8852 It's got nothing to do with "being proud", but I would like to see you in your own country, where you are in hospital, heavily ill, and the nurses and doctors speak a language, you don't understand AND the doctors and nurses also don't know, what you try to tell them about the symptoms you've got, because they don't understand you neither. That could end deadly.
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@LydiaTifuh As a certified nurse after 15 years you would earn about €3.200 plus surcharges for holiday-/sunday- and nightshifts.
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@LydiaTifuh 😉 Well, the salary is raising permanently year by year, so it's not like 15 years liw and suddenly the "big jump" to a higher salary. Anyway, all the best to you and good luck 😉
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@Someone-br1dr What did you smoke? ROFLOL
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@gfys756 Oops, thanks, I've corrected it to salaries 😉
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@balsdsa Are you talking about tax? Lowest tax rate starts at 14% and goes up to 42%, on top the welfare fees .. More exact I can't say, as its depending on your yearly income, and in Germany it's "sortet in levels". Again: the "welfare fees" ARE NOT TAX, as they are financing the welfare system. The payments out of those "funds" get payed out in percentage (of how much you paid in) again, not a "fixed fee" like in the UK. Typo
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@ORDEROFTHEKNIGHTSTEMPLAR13 If your yearly salary is about 120k, yes.
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@tomorrowland2684 I don't know in which country you're living in, but the things, the other guy wrote, well ... First of all, nobody should use a hospital as an alternative to a GP, as you're just blocking the AE with banal issues, which could have been sortet at your GP. And it's a duty for every doctor in Germany to offer once a week an "open consultation", where no appointment is needed, you just might have to wait some hours, but you could see any doctor in one week. For emergencies: if you tell the doctors receptionists already on the phone about your problem, and it's urgent, they would ask you to come by straight away. Alltogether I can say, the German health system is still very good equipped in comparison to other countries, including the costs of all extras (teeth, hearing aid, wheel chairs etc, physio therapy and lots of others) or extremly expensive medication, which gets paid from each of the German health insurances as well. Nothing really to complain about. At the moment are just to many of staff (hospitals/doctors) ill and the raised energy prices aren't helpfull either. Add on: typo 😉
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@tomorrowland2684 As said before: a hospital/clinic IS NOT an alternative to your GP, the AE is for REAL EMERGENCIES like heart attacks, stroke, HEAVY accidents (NOT a scratch because of a "cut wrong finger nail" or a cold !!). I wonder, how you would feel, if some time in your future, you might have a heart attack, get brought to AE/hospital, and lots of ixxccc are blocking the AE because of having a "life threatening cold". LOL If it wouldn't be so serious :-(( Typo
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@tomorrowland2684 OK 😉 The other guy, you answered to, was talking about hospitals only, the same subject as the DW report. Over here in Germany the system is different, doctors are "spread" all over the country, you have free choice of every doctor and hospitals ate really and only for emergencies, as written before. Doctors are available Mo- Fr, the weekends and evenings/ nights get covered by the so called "emergency doctors", which will come to your home or wherever you are, but again: for emergencies only, not for having a cold etc 😉 But as you stated, that you're living in Germany since 9 years, I would think you would know about the difference ...
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@lhmsc Ok 😉 But when you're living here for so many years you shouldn't mix up GP with hospitals/ clinics, as that was the subject of the DW report only. Therefor I was refering to you about GP against hospitals. That GPs are not open 24/7 is everywhere the case, as I wouldn't know any country in the world, where doctors have the same opening times as hospitals. I guess, you also don't work 24/7, not even as a doctor at a hospital. I don't know, how doctors are "spread" in Thuringia, if you're living in a city/town or small village. But, and that's for the whole of Germany, all doctors are in duty, to have once a week a "open consultation". And I didn't "down size" other peoples (yours) problems with doctors, but I have to admit, the way you discribing it, sounded a bit "over done", I'm sorry to say. Anyway, I wish you all the best, and good luck with the "open consultation", it's worth trying it. Btw, one of my nephews is a male intense care nurse, and we talk about the German health care system quite regular. I don't know, how it's in Brazil, if it's better or worst ... All the best to you with lots of health and greetings to Thuringia from Bremen 😉 Add on: as written before, the monthly fee you're paying for your health insurance has got nothing to do with the region you're living in, as it's German wide a 7,3 % of your monthly salary.... the other 7,3 % get paid by your employer.
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@lhmsc Good morning, Luis 😉 I'm very sorry to hear about that !! Myself being part of a family with six Nationalities, none of us has experienced any sort of xenophobia (luckily), may be it's got to do with where you're living?! Sounds nasty, I know :-(( Thanks for telling me, how it works in Brazil, as I was there for one week only, had to meet with some business people. Would it help to move into a different part of Germany, is there a possibilty for that sort of work you're doing there anywhere else over here? If not, I still recommend you to try out the "open consultation". Good luck and all the best for you with greetings from Bremen 😉
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