One advantage Western Eropean health car has that is not very often talked about is the brain drain from Eastern Europe.
Countless well prepared doctors from countries like Bulgaria and Romania leave to work and live in France, UK or Germany.
They are happy with the higher standar of life and better income in the west. However their education is subsidized by the East with the losses never recouped.
Without those doctors, the health care in Western Europe would be significantly worse, kind like how Silicon Valley would be without immigrants.
There is a similar problem with nurses being recruited from other poorer places.
Another problem is that clinicians make mistakes, and those mistakes kill people, and the risks of those mistakes rise with Whatever national language as a second language.
Countless well prepared doctors from countries like Bulgaria and Romania leave to work and live in France, UK or Germany.
They are happy with the higher standar of life and better income in the west. However their education is subsidized by the East with the losses never recouped.
Without those doctors, the health care in Western Europe would be significantly worse, kind like how Silicon Valley would be without immigrants.