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Maybe you should consider moving to Europe and benefit from a proper public healthcare system?

But I must admit, the energy bills lately are no fun here… So maybe wait until all that mess is over.



Also from crazy high taxation, inflation, and soon to come energy rationing


Still sounds preferable compared to the US to be honest (as a US citizen with a residency visa app pending with a Western European country). Note the respondent paying $1800/month for two 63 year olds, or folks spending $2k-$3k/month for a family. These costs are simply unsustainable. Europe will eventually get their energy situation resolved, sooner than the US will fix their healthcare situation.


Well here in Switzerland there isn't much difference.


https://data.oecd.org/healthres/health-spending.htm

Public + private spending; the US spends $12k/person, the Swiss $7k.

The US is roughly double or more than any other developed nation in per-capita healthcare spending.


Not everyone can just move between countries. Beyond the cost and family/friends situation... the basics of immigration come in to play. Will that new country even allow you in? I'd looked in to this multiple times over the past couple decades, and it was often difficult or impossible short of having a few million behind you. In most cases, you'll need to have an actual employer-sponsorship lined up, and many employers in other countries are reluctant to bother. Not saying it doesn't happen, but it's not trivial to get those stars to line up.


Given the defense crisis now on Europe’s doorstep your countries may soon have to drastically increase defense spending.

Taxes in Euroland are already quite high. That money is going to have to come from somewhere and likely will eat into your public healthcare budgets.


Taxes in Euroland are already quite high.

A quick google[1] reckons people on low incomes spend as much as 35% of their income on healthcare alone, before pay any taxes. You need to be earning a lot in Europe before you get even close to that.

If you're on a low-to-average income then Europe is probably better. If you're rich then America is better.

[1] https://www.advisory.com/daily-briefing/2019/05/02/health-ca...


> If you're on a low-to-average income then Europe is probably better. If you're rich then America is better.

Many (most?) people on HN are highly-skilled, highly-paid technologists and likely the latter.




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