Jun 4, 2025 06:10 PM
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SURVIVAL LILLY
https://youtu.be/obiXVs2Q-vY
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Today I want to give you another news update about the situation in Europe, especially Austria and Germany.
First I would like to talk about the economy, which is doing really badly. Here there's an article about people having less money, many are worse off than last year. Inflation clearly noticeable.
Almost a third of Austrians have less money at their disposal than last year. This is also changing consumer behavior. [...] They are using their money more consciously. For example, 70% of the respondents stated that they buy used items. The used market is huge...
[...] In Austria apparently women receive 40% less pension than men, because when they stay at home with the kids, and later on they work part-time -- they have less working years.
[...] The health care system in Austria is slowly degrading and failing. Here we have a patient who had symptoms of paralysis. Five hospitals refused the surgery, because the clinic said it was not necessary.
After a long and painful odyssey the doctors finally found out that she had a defective disc. So then the patient had to sell her car and other things, and she still had to take a loan to pay €15,000 to do surgery in a private hospital in Vienna.
Later [using the government system] she could have gotten surgery for her back, but it would have taken until October 2026 to get her surgery.
[...] Yeah, it's really crazy what's happening to the Austrian healthcare system, and we Austrians, we pay so much money into the healthcare system [...and get bad service and long waits in return...]
Situation in Europe: June 2025 - Part 1 ... https://youtu.be/obiXVs2Q-vY
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/obiXVs2Q-vY
SURVIVAL LILLY
https://youtu.be/obiXVs2Q-vY
VIDEO EXCERPTS: Today I want to give you another news update about the situation in Europe, especially Austria and Germany.
First I would like to talk about the economy, which is doing really badly. Here there's an article about people having less money, many are worse off than last year. Inflation clearly noticeable.
Almost a third of Austrians have less money at their disposal than last year. This is also changing consumer behavior. [...] They are using their money more consciously. For example, 70% of the respondents stated that they buy used items. The used market is huge...
[...] In Austria apparently women receive 40% less pension than men, because when they stay at home with the kids, and later on they work part-time -- they have less working years.
[...] The health care system in Austria is slowly degrading and failing. Here we have a patient who had symptoms of paralysis. Five hospitals refused the surgery, because the clinic said it was not necessary.
After a long and painful odyssey the doctors finally found out that she had a defective disc. So then the patient had to sell her car and other things, and she still had to take a loan to pay €15,000 to do surgery in a private hospital in Vienna.
Later [using the government system] she could have gotten surgery for her back, but it would have taken until October 2026 to get her surgery.
[...] Yeah, it's really crazy what's happening to the Austrian healthcare system, and we Austrians, we pay so much money into the healthcare system [...and get bad service and long waits in return...]
Situation in Europe: June 2025 - Part 1 ... https://youtu.be/obiXVs2Q-vY
