Still not nearly as expensive though, prices in the US are artificially inflated through collusion, while prices in the EU are kept down via the huge bargaining power countries have when negotiating under a unified front.
That looks like a single-bed hospital room. Depending on the country, they are expensive in Europe too because insurance only covers the bare minimum. Here in Germany you’ll always be sharing the room with 2 - 8 other people, even if they have an infectious disease. You’ll only get a single-bed room by paying like 200€ per day, by being immunocompromised or by having a very infectious disease.
The major difference between European health care and American health care is that Europeans receive care closer to At-Cost than their American counterparts, who demand enormous overhead and profit. A band-aid in an American hospital can bill for $50. An IV can run you $1000. These enormous fees have nothing to do with the kind or quality of care (you can find price gouging in the dingiest rat-hole ERs right alongside Mayo Clinics). They’re set by the hospitals because patients have no bargaining power, while state agencies have enormous latitude in setting flat rates.
That’s also a big reason why American hospitals hate Medicaid patients (but love Medicare payments). Medicaid has a much tighter fee schedule than Medicare, so you can bill for more and at higher rates. Hospital admins in the states will argue they can’t turn a profit on Medicaid (highly dubious, since “profit” for the office includes covering the inflated borrowing, real estate, and administrative costs the facility has to absorb). Meanwhile, whole practices exist to serve Medicare patients.
When countries, like the UK and Germany, begin outsourcing and privatizing their medical procedures, the prices rise to whatever limit the state is able to absorb. UK’s current NHS cost crisis is being driven largely by the exploding cost of privatized and outsourced procedures, combined with an aging population that has elevated demands. That’s where you see the most expensive health care in Europe.
By contrast, state hospitals in Italy and Norway are dirt cheap to operate when they’re not on the hook for these extortionary private costs. Suddenly you’re not getting charged $150 for an aspirin and caring for a baby in the NICU doesn’t cost half a milly. The state budget isn’t getting broken over the back of privatized profit-seeking care.
Isn’t that incorrect? The costs incurred by the NHS in the UK are much lower than what a hospital would spend in the US, especially on drugs, where there is a single market with limited customers.
No idea about the UK. But in Germany a comparable hospital stay (single bed room) would be up to a 1000€ per day afaik. If you are publicly insured in Germany, you’d still easily pay 150€ out of your own pocket (otherwise the rooms have 2-4 beds).
But I already learned in this thread that the costs in the US are far worse.
GIMP is fine but who can find me replacements for After Effects and Premiere Pro? I need software for video editing/motion graphics and these are the two apps keeping me shackled to Adobe for now…
That was probably close to one of the last versions of enlightenment I used regularly. It was such a fun WM to use at the time. If I remember correctly, GNOME and KDE were really ramping up about then and e fell behind.
TRANSPARENT TERMINALS! Haha it felt so futuristic and to this day I can’t run a terminal without a little transparency. Enlightenment was my first experience of it.
I mostly use it because it looks nice, but I’ve found that with limited screen space, they’re actually really useful! I can have the man pages or a stack exchange open in the background, and don’t need to constantly switch back and forth
You can always be getting a result above average in a series of numbers as long as the nth number is significantly greater than the previous ones. For example, f(x) = x^2 would always be above average for every next number
Something as simple as having a decent size fridge with a freezer or not is the difference between being able to buy larger quantities of food cheaper per Kg, buying cheaper frozen ingredients or preparing extra food and freezing some for later and not being able to do so hence spending more money on food.
Also there are several other kinds of things were having the money to buy them in larger quantities yields a lot of savings versus having to buy them in smaller quantities with what little money one has available.
Just like beyond a certain point wealth is self-sustainable and it’s almost impossible to fall down from there unless one is a moron (and even then, one has to be extraordinarilly so and also unlucky), below a certain point poverty is self-sustainable because one doesn’t have the money needed to be able to access cheaper options to fullfil basic needs.
Even at higher wealth levels there are all sorts of feedback cycles that stop people from climbing the ladded or which push them down unless they’re high enough in it: for example, healthcare costs in countries without Universal Healthcare or the tuition of Higher Education (a gatekeeper for many opportunities) in countries without decent free or cheap Public Higher Education.
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