"Hospital beds" is not a question of counting items of furniture.  It is a shorthand way of measuring available hospital services.  It includes the cost of staffing and other services needed.

Just a sidenote: "Hospital beds" is the standard measure of hospital capacity. A "bed" means the capacity to care for one patient, which includes not just the physical bed but also equipment, supplies, doctors, nurses, orderlies, etc. If a hospital has to close off a wing because it doesn't have the staff to keep it running, the physical beds in there don't count as working capacity.

My wife moved to Sweden from the US in 2016. In 2021, she suffered a brain hemorrhage. She ended up in one of the top neurosurgical clinics in Northern Europe, and was in intensive care for four weeks. The cost was about $8,800 a day, and she was transported by helicopter as it was an emergency. What did we pay? $50 or so. Best return of my taxes ever,

6:04 "i like to see a stat on that" 11 million children in the U.S. go to bed hungry on a regular basis. That number isn't surprising when about 40 million American live below the poverty line.

I've seen this epic comment once, can't remember where but it does sum up US and our(European) health care system differences rather well: 'If Braking Bad was filmed in Europe It would end after 1 episode since Walter would go to hospital and get treatment he needed and got cured' :)

as a child i wanted to migrate to the US, as an Adult i realized how dumb i was and how hollywood movies portraits the US is literally propaganda lmao

7:58 - At least in the EU, that is a standard metric for healthcare capacity. They say "bed" but what they really mean is how many "spots" or people the system can handle. My local hospital was talking about "expanding by 500 beds" a while ago, that means building a new wing, hiring all the people needed and buying all the equipment needed.

Turning to crowdfunding to pay for your medical bills should never be seen as acceptable.

About healthcare not being effective: if people don’t get healthcare because it’s too expensive, it’s not effective.

My brother, just out of 2 months in hospital, 2 operations, heart and liver, 6 weeks of antibiotics and is finally home. No cost. Salary received from work 100%. In Italy.

I'm a data analyst trained in economics.  Unfortunately, the US is a functional oligarchy.  The diversion of earnings to the top ten percent does not exist in any other developed country.

8:00 - Nurses can't do much if they don't have a bed to put the patient in. Beds are one of the most important things in a hospital

I'm a brit. I used to work with a fella from utah. Been living here 5 years. I remember him saying since moving he realised the USA was the least free country in the free world. And he and his family had never been healthier and happier. Not just because of NHS. Better food quality. Better public services. Better local infrastructure. Better working conditions. Oh, and he felt a hell of a lot safer. He never put USA down as such but said he'd never live there again. America. The greatest country on earth. ?

What US calls worker's  ”benefits”, we (all other developed countries and numerous developing/under-developed countries) call worker's ”rights” because they are guaranteed by laws and obligations of either the employers or social security-like system to provide to workers.

I'm born and I live in Romania, allegedly a country with a disastrous medical system. In 1997 my father had a job opportunity to move to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania together with our family, but we refused by voting 3 to 0 against this, despite the salary would be ten times higher. Meanwhile my mother had ovarian cancer in 2009 and breast cancer in 2020. She got surgeries and advanced medical treatments, everything for free right in our city, saving her life. I can only imagine what would have happened if the vote had been the other way around.

16:02 “When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.” ― Dom Helder Camara

I live in Canada but my mother is from the United States. I've been in and out of the hospital pretty much all of my life and never had to pay a cent that wasn't already paid through taxes. Meanwhile my aunt chose to die rather than undergo treatment for Lymphoma because she couldn't afford it and didn't want to saddle her family with debt. Another aunt died about a decade earlier because she couldn't afford her medication. Canada's system definitely needs improvements and has its own downsides but I will always be grateful that I wasn't born in the US.

I live in Germany. A couple of years ago, my teenage daughter tore her ACL. She had multiple MRIs, surgery (within 2 weeks of the injury) with one of the top knee specialists in Europe, and a year of physical therapy. Total out of pocket: €20 for the cost of the ambulance to and from surgery, and she was back playing sports within 7 months of the injury. That‘s on public insurance.

"In Norway, medical debt is almost unheard of."
No.. It IS unheard of. It simply doesn't exist. If you cannot afford the $30 copay to go to the doctor, that bill simply gets annulled.

I lived in the US for a few years and had ‘top’ medical insurance through the bank I worked for. The dental work I had was unnecessary/shoddy and needed removal when I came back to the UK. The doctor removed a ‘cancerous’ mole on my back that turned out to just be a birth mark and I was ‘diagnosed’ with a scary mental health issue via a 20 word questionnaire because I went to the docs feeling a bit low.. The medication they wanted me to take was dangerous. Turns out it was the menopause. I am also so glad I didn’t have a heart attack because my policy didn’t allow me to have more than one in a 12 month period (Jan to Dec). What a load of rubbish.