TL;DR European with a masters's degree, free healthcare and no children has the freedom to jump around in their career and even take extended breaks to indulge in hobby projects.
What an amazing thing - "free healthcare" results in regular people being able to do what they want with their lives rather than being stuck doing something they don't want to!
"Free" healthcare is actually massively subsidized by our own taxes, which can reach as much as 52% where I live. We also have paid parental leave (maternal and paternal), good public transport, paid sick leave, and all the goodies that make a society civilized.
I mean, it's not nonsense. Anyone who is familiar with either health or defense policy details knows that the US taxpayer is absorbing an absurd amount of cost which enables other countries to do things we cannot. When it comes to healthcare, other countries can mandate price caps on services and drugs because their economies are merely importing, not developing, the medical equipment and drugs. When it comes to defense, the safety provided by the US military and nuclear umbrella allows other countries to spend less -- this was so obviously a problem that even Donald Trump could see it.
> Anyone who is familiar with either health or defense policy details knows that the US taxpayer is absorbing an absurd amount of cost which enables other countries to do things we cannot
That, too, is nonsense. The price of insulin in the US is roughly 10 times than the price of the same drug, produced by the same company, in Canada. Same applies for many life-saving drugs which are price-regulated in the rest of the civilized world, while in the US they are left to be determined to a large extent by the "free market". Whether you import the drugs or services or not, you can still put a price cap on them, but the US govt simply refuses to do so, by choice.
