I was telling my dad that in most of the world you don't have to pay for healthcare OR school and in some cases pension and my older brother immediately runs out (American Nationalist has entered the chat) and starts bleating about how none of that is true
This directly contradicts my experience with people I've known from the EU who paid fuck all for braces, healthcare, school, etc but he will always say "I know people from there" (which I'm assuming is a bunch of right wing shitheels from 4chan with a boner for the USA and unironic Ukrainians) but I get the feeling he is full of shit
he always tells me "mental health is cheap/free in the USA" when he bludgeons me with that and this also directly contradicts my experience of being told that my dads insurance only covers 4 sessions of therapy and that the copay will be $225 dollars an hour when I was 12
what the hell is the truth lmao
In the UK heath care is still public, no cost for seeing doctors, ambulances, going to hospital, surgeries or staying in hospital etc. Mental health is also free though can be a pain to access as the system has never had much investment.
Dental is a mixed bag, very subsidised but still some costs, check up and xrays etc are capped at £24, fillings or root canals etc £60, crowns dentures or other complex stuff £280, you will have to pay private for more cosmetic based stuff though.
University is now fairly expensive here at £9000 per year. It used to be free, then charged but still cheap but in 2012 it went up to it's current price. It's one of the more obvious effects of the slow degradation of most social democracies into laissez faire capitalism.