Soon only the rich can afford to study. They give students a loan if...but it means it has to be paid back and 1 semester is close to 8000 euro! Next a student needs a place to eat, food, books, and so on.
Many students work. My son will go work for a German company - a few months working - a few months studying and so on. I really hope what he will earn is enough to pay the fee, books, travelling costs and so on. If not he has to give up but at least will have a job.
My youngest said she will not study, I agree with her it's not worth it. It's hard to find a job and I hope she'll find something to keep her alive and with enough time left to do as she likes. To me that's all that counts.
All hospitals are the same, no longer public but businesses it's all about making money, same for phone company, banks, public transport, mail, the state no longer owns it, services go down and prices up!
If it comes to the house doctor...
S/he rarely works fulltime and in mist cases in a group. They are only available between 8-4 pm after an appointment and for 10 minutes only and 1 health issue so not an ear infection plus a painful toe. Health issues or an emergency after 4 or 5 pm? You need to call a number given by an answering machine. It's a callcenter. These people look in a medical encyclopedia what you might have and if you need to see a doctor. If they say 'no' you can't. It's not allowed to go to the ER or call an ambulance.
So it's a fight if you need one. Plenty of mistakes are made. They told my brother in law he had the flu should take paracetamol, he vomited blood it turned out to be a long emboli. My friend called the doctor to check on her dad, he collapsed..the doctor refused to visit. After hours of calling they forced anlther doctor to call an ambulance. In hospital they sent him back said others were more important because of the flu...the man turned out to have cancer. As the hospital finally figured it out nearly 1 year passed.
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My mother, it looks even worse than the USA (at least, hospitals in the States work, if people pay an insurance, obviously). In the USA, university courses averagely cost 300K dollars and students must repay the loan too. In any way, if they study medicine, it's worth, as American doctors count on high and very high salaries. I wonder how in Netherlands youngsters may begin to study medicine, as a medicine degree is very demanding and so incompatible with a job while studying. In the geographic area where I was born, until I lived there, a medicine degree cost about 3000 or 3500 euros per year, but curiously, it were the wealthy families of businessmen who refused to pay for their children's education. So our doctors, judges, prosecutors and many teachers were imported from the southern regions, where the families didn't scare about getting indebted to pay the university for their children.
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