*laughs in Scandinavian*

Americans are awake

wrong again. maybe someday you'll get it.

It's like. Mid-day but alright.

no such thing as free. lets call it what it is. some one else is responsibility health care. or someone else pays my bills healthcare. personally i want free electric if i'm really sick i can go to hospital even if im flat broke but if i can't pay my electric no heat and i died happens a lot to the elderly. so lets get free electric for all.

You still pay for it, you idiots.

Next topic: paid maternity leave

Everybody keeps talking about healthcare in Europe being free or way better. But when I compare what my parents pay for their basic healthcare with what I pay over here in the US, there isn't much of a difference. The two-tier system in Germany may work better and perhaps my parents have better coverage over-all - that is a possibility. I did always feel like the system worked pretty well. But people need to stop calling it "free". That's super misleading. Healthcare differs from country to country and German healthcare is nothing like, say, Canadian healthcare (which, as far as I can tell, is closer to "free", even though that's a lie, too and it seems to have terrible wait times). You do pay way more for healthcare in Germany than Canada, since it's not covered by high taxes. But because of that it's also not shit, even if you have "normal" healthcare and not the more expensive private kind that richer people can afford. What I'm saying is: you'll be alright, but it'll cost you.