If Anyone Tells You “Socialized” Medicine Is Crap …
… here’s what you tell them
My spouse fell and had to go to the hospital this week. I happily accompanied her to get her arm checked. A small break, nothing serious, thankfully. She’ll have a cast for five weeks, and I will need to be her second hand for awhile. Hey, for better or worse, in sickness and health. 😃
It was our first experience with a Czech hospital, or, in the Czech language, a nemocnice. It was, shall we say, an interesting experience.
Socialism!!!
Yes, egad, “socialized” medicine is “socialism.” Growing up in the US, we heard the constant drumbeat of horror stories about healthcare in the rest of the world. Yes, the whole rest of the world has the system of medicine that the US labels “socialized” and “socialism.” And, of course, anything with “socialism” in it is nasty, poor, and brutish, or so we were told.
The Czech Republic has such “socialism.” Or, more correctly stated, it has a nationalized health service, designed to serve all of the people in society — which, to be honest, is the real meaning of “socialism.”
The system is simple. You pay into the national healthcare system, just like you pay into social security, and you get healthcare. In the Czech Republic, we pay 2,722 CZK…
