[FirmwareBurner]

> I got elective surgery without insurance which included full anethesia in a private clinic and they were very sorry because the total would be 600 euros.

600 Euros for elective surgery with full anesthesia is insanely cheap. Even by EU standards. There must be some subsidies involved from the public health sector for that surgery or something to knock that price down. In Austria a surgery is thousands.

Doctors at a private clinic won't even get out of bed for 600 Euros let alone pay for the whole staff and clinic.

[dijit]

Austria might be an outlier.

In the UK, Sweden and Estonia (the only places I have data for) it would be within this ballpark, never more than €1k (in their respective currencies).

[FirmwareBurner]

Maybe, but because of outliers you can't then claim EU elective surgery is cheap when it obviously doesn't apply across the entire block. I'm sure it's cheap in some countries yes.

[dijit]

It is in 100% of the places I know about.

I think making any broad EU statement even if it applies to many/most is fine.

There will always be some outliers in the data.

There is a similar argument about generalisations on behaviour, ie: statistically average behaviours of people.

You have to be able to talk in broad strokes with the knowledge that it doesn't apply to everyone.

[FirmwareBurner]

>It is in 100% of the places I know about.

It's also in 100% of the countries I know about. What does that mean?

[dijit]

how many EU countries do you know about?

Would you like me to investigate the propensity of this EU wide, or are you being glib about knowing only a single country and that technically is 100% of your knowledge?

[FirmwareBurner]

>how many EU countries do you know about?

How many are your 100% of the countries?