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  Thank you for filling in the bits that I'm missing. I'm not familiar with the system, I'm just parroting what I've heard.
  I would ask about the deduction from the paycheck, as some Americans end up with multi million dollar bills. Is that controlled properly, or do some Germans get saddled with uncontrollable debt? Is medical debt a common force towards bankruptcy in anywhere but America?
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  Western countries must be prepared to provide long-term support to Ukraine as Russia shows no signs of relenting, Nato's secretary general has said.
  Jens Stoltenberg told the BBC that military support would ensure the survival of Ukraine as a sovereign country and force Russia to sit down and negotiate an end to the war.
  "We need to provide support to Ukraine now, including military support, because that's the only way to convince Russia that they have to sit down and negotiate in good faith and respect Ukraine as a sovereign independent nation in Europe," Mr Stoltenberg said.
  
  
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  lol why are the comments a pissing contest for who's helped the most? We should all just agree that we need to continue supporting them. >
  
  B/c the US is doing the right thing, and edgy teenagers on the internet can't handle that. It's hard to be a contrarian and woke at the same time while the US is providing all this much needed support >
  
  Americans want healthcare. >
  
  universal healthcare would cost American less than the current system. There is no financial obstacle to achieving it, its not a binary choice between military spending and healthcare >
  
  It's more complicated than a dollar sign on a piece of paper.
  The current system employees a lot of people and undoing it requires coming up with a plan for the employment vacuum it would create.
  I'm not disagreeing that single payer is a better system, but the current system is so entrenched that unwinding it will require a lot of upfront planning, care and monumental cost. It's really not as simple of a transition as people make it out to be. >
  
  Bernie stans will kill me, but single player is not the only way to achieve universal healthcare 
  Countries like France, Germany, Singapore all have mixed public private healthcare systems with relegated price caps to ensure affordability, and thats probably the path that makes the most sense for the US >
  
  Germany, I think has a private health care system that sets strict limits on how much an individual receiving health care has to pay. In the same way that medicare does in the United States. That seems like an obvious solution. But additional taxes almost constitute a political death sentence in the United States. So Medicare for all is dead on arrival. Which is unfortunate. And short sighted. >
  
  
  Germany, I think has a private health care system that sets strict limits on how much an individual receiving health care has to pay. 
  
  germany has a split public/private health care system. anybody earning above 64,350€ gross (in 2022) has the option to insure themselves privately. certain people also have to insure themselves privately (servants of the state, "beamte"). anybody in a private insurance will get the full preexisting conditions dance - but you still have the option to stay in the public healthcare system.
  for anybody in the public health care system, they will not even know how much the doctor earned off of them, unless it's an optional service, which they pay in full (there are extra insurances that will cover more, most noticably dental). anybody privately insured will see the full bill, pay it, and then get reimbursed by their insurance. the price a privately insured person will pay/get reimbursed usually is higher than the one a public insured person's insurance will pay. the insurance costs itself is deducted from the paycheck every month, automatically by the employer, and paid to the insurance. insurance is not bound to the employer however, it's your own choice. you are also insured when unemployed.