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These kind of videos literally make me appreciate living in the Netherlands. You never compare yourself to other countries on this kind of level yet when you hear it, it makes me smile?

As a Dutchman living in Norway, health care is even more impressive here. Everyone is equally insured, having income or not. Baby leave is 9 months shared by the mother and father.

A US doctor summed it up pretty accurately when he said: "The US healthcare system is working exactly as intended. it just never was intended to benefit the patient."

When I visited the USA I was shocked how expensive the vegetables were. It was possible to cook in the apartment, but the rest of the time we went out to restaurants. I can imagine why cheap fast food is a problem when you can't pay for healthy food. It's so important like you said.

I'm Dutch born and I've been walking around here for quite some time now. But just now I really realize how big, (not to say huge) my little county actually is! I'm really proud of that...Chapeau!!!

When, for example, we buy a new washing machine, the stores have a delivery/installation service and they take your old/broken machine with them for free to have it recycled.

If it ain't Dutch it ain't much!!

I also like the channel Jovie’s home, it’s an American woman living in the Netherlands and she makes fun videos about all things Dutch. She also did a great series where she visited every province here. So there’s a lot of footage of the rest of the country, not just Amsterdam and Rotterdam 😉

Making a salad? In our supermarkets there is a complete wall with ready to eat green salad, mixed salad, bitter salad, young leaves salad, etc. etc. Just add what you want in it and some dressing, ready... We also have wok mix, thai mix, indonesian mix, chinese mix, italian mix, mushroom mix, etc. etc. Just fry some meat or fish, add a bag of these veggies and scoop it for five minutes, ready... You do not have to buy a pepper, chili, paksoi or whatever, and cut it, it is there in a small handy bag washed, cut and mixed. Daily fresh.

Casey is great! She has a lot of interesting topics and really dives in to something. She sometimes even knows more than I do about grammar or history 🙈 Thank for enjoying this! 🎁

God bless the Netherlands best country ever. Great video btw keep it up👍

Dutch Boyan Slat, The Ocean Cleanup! Best invention: Interceptors!

Her videos are always really great. I’m Dutch myself, but it’s a interesting to see things from the perspective of someone from another country. It makes me realise just how well things are organised here, even though not every system works, we have not much to worry about here. This lady’s videos are always very well put together, I just enjoy listening to her talk about anything 😅

Keep in mind: The Netherlands is not the 2nd greatest exporter of *food*, but of agricultural products. This includes tulip bulbs etc (which we hadn't eaten since The Hungerwinter). Also, we are only ranked second when export is expressed in a currency (usually dollars) in stead of weight/volume/etc. We sell our goods high: cucumbers, tomatoes, and capsicums are simply more expensive than rice, wheat, corn, etc. Still, I think we do quite good. :)

In the Netherlands, the courts ruled that the oil company Shell should cut back on emissions for the first time ever. Its a pretty big deal

We do have to relate. It's easier for a country with 17m people to set things up than for a country with 362m people. But the things we can do, we actually do. I still feel very priviliged to be Dutch. If its for sports, music, or as a country as a whole. We are small, but we have a big impact in the world. It makes me proud.

You're absolutely right: Casey does deserve the appreciation. She is well informed and on point pretty much all the time. She is clearly intrigued by Dutch society, but also willing to study the how and the why of all kinds of aspects of it. Not surprisingly, I agree with most of the points she is making in this video. However I do not fully agree that we are really doing all the necessary things to meet the Paris agreement. It's actually my main critique of the active government. I hope our next government will do a lot better! Seeing my home country and culture through her eyes is a wonderful experience. There are so many things obvious to us, that we sometimes forget that it's really not that obvious on the world stage. That is also part of me loving to see your reactions. So thank you ..... again.

I have my own fruit in my garden. Like plums ,zucchini, tomatos, strawberrys, pears and grapes

I have a son who's severely disabled from birth. I have always been grateful I was living here, in the Netherlands. My son has always had excellent care, and always for free. And he still receives this. I have a few times seen his bills, the amount of money that's spent on him is amazing, I would never have been able to pay those costs myself. In the US he wouldn't be alive for a long time already. Probably would have made it 2 years or so, then we would have been bankrupt and as a result...

I agree. More informative than any before. This girl rocks.

I just recently found you. Dunno if it is on purpose but i love the orange shirt when making these Dutch clips. Orange is our color as you probably know :)

Dutch women give birth at home a lot. Usually you only end up at the hospital if something's wrong. Although birthing clinics are on the rise. I think one of the reasons for the home births is simply because we can. The Netherlands is so small, the hospital is almost always close by. In a lot of other countries home birthing is just not an option because of the distance.

At the moment I have a lot tomato's out of my own garden. That's easy to realize in our spring/summertime😀😇

I am Dutch, lived in The Netherlands untill I was 36 and moved to Austria (between Germany and Italy) 10 years ago. Also had my son here. The health insurance system and "kraamzorg" are even better here. I pay way less insurance and much more is covered than in the Netherlands. I had 12 weeks maternity leave (6 weeks before and 6 weeks after birth) and after that you can have Karenz. it is a payed leave with the guarantee you can have your job back for a period of 12 to 36 months. The duration you choose determines how much money you will get each month for that period. This goes for 1 parent, so you can choose which of the parents will stay at home. You can also for example take 1 year as the mom and 1 year as the dad (or whatever the family structure is). Home births are not very common here. It probably has most to do with infrastructure here in the mountains. The risks can be high if you live in the mountains and can't get to a hospital fast. I had to have a c-section unfortunately, but I was able to stay in the Hospital (for 0 euro) for 7 days and did not need help at home. You can choose to have that too after birth here in Austria at zero cost.

Here you can find fresh fruit in every supermarket. Small or big. Also we have separate greengrocers that of course sell all kinds of fruit and veggies. Here Lidl and Aldi sell very good fresh veggies and fruits too. So no problems getting it. We have the same machines for empty bottles btw.

A compulsory income -dependent contribution, nowadays run by private companies with government supervision. It used to be fully state-run but was privatised in 2006. An american friend of ours with liver cancer gets shots at $6000, on holiday here he got the SAME shot(Swiss made) for 700 Euros. Same dose, same brand!

Yes.. we are they highest exporters for fruits and vegetables. Because we have very innovative clean and green agricultural technology

Her channel is great. She's living in The Hague nowadays and is very approachable. Paul and friends should certainly watch more on her channel and maybe talk to her and find out how she doing.

Casey is always a great information source for all things dutch!

What a terrific video reaction! I really enjoy you! 🤗

This was very interesting. My sister in law (we are Dutch) had her first child, and when the "Kraamzorg" employee arrived at the house the new mom was already making coffee for the family. but she did appreciate the help for the next few days.

Great statement HxC about that there is more than Amsterdam and ‘Holland’ … The Netherlands is so much more than that!

This girl is nailing it.

As a Dutch, I did not know our system is that good against the rest of the world. This opens my eyes, THX, for this upload. And yes! we are second behind the USA exporting food around the world. This is because we are Silicon Valley in growing food because of an outstanding technology we created to harvest sometimes 4 times a year on the same ground. being the best in IT will not feed you at all, WE DO!

You should jovie's home on yt An American expat who's telling you all you wanna know about the Netherlands and the dutch. You really should paul

Our agriculture sector is extremely efficient, but what cant be neglected in that conversation is that most of our land area is used for very high intensity farming to make that possible. And then there's the greenhouses, which can produce up to 10x more produce on the same land area as conventional farming. Due to local production of very varied produce in the greenhouses, we can get strawberries, pumpkins, cucumbers, and all other kinds of products for very cheap. In the summertime theyre practically giving it away. Flowers as well, you can pick up a nice bouquet for a few euro that would cost dozens anywhere else. Mostly whatever is left over from the auctions at FloraHolland in Aalsmeer. Not the finest quality, but fresh and affordable.

You might add that the Netherlands is also the world's number one exporter of flowers!

To explain it briefly, I pay 750 in rent, I get 310 euros back from the state, I pay 147 in care, I get 138 back from the state, and yes this is in the Netherlands, my daughter is in daycare when I work that is also partly reimbursed,

I've seen many videos from Casey and I love her view on our country!

I am dutch but when i was a newly father i only got one day pertunaty leave. (10 years ago) theve changet it to 5 days and its possible to get 6 weeks but you only earn 70% of your salery in those 6 weeks.

"Statiegeld"used to be limited to glass bottles (soda and beer) and plasstic bottles of 1 liter and larger. recently the small plastic bottles also have statiegeld on them. //edit 2024 now cans have statiegeld too.

Yeah I have 2 sons and for that we got 2 times kraamzorg. It was just fantastic. As a father you learn so much about caring for your little boy in just a week. You literally get a jumpstart with your first born The paternity leave nowadays is so much better then when I got it back in 2009 and 2011. I only had 5 days back then. Oh and about the windmills….we dont need them….Floor does all the windmilling for us 😎🤟🏼🤟🏼

You are co-insured with your parents for medical expenses until you turn 18. From the 1st of the month, after your 18th birthday, you are in charge of your health insurance. You can therefore apply for your own health insurance.

Kraamzorg also told me the father the 2nd day. " And now its your turn to learn " Old batleaxe 😂

The netherlands is btw the fourth biggest exporter in the world above countries like japan and india

It is true that the Netherlands is de second largest exporter of agricultural products. Mind you, it is based on value, not only volume. The Netherlands is big in trading high yield seed, so a very low volume, high value product. Around Wageningen we have the so-called Food Valley - like Silicone Valley - where very high-tech agricultural and food manufacturing methods are developed. The Agricultural university - MIT for farmers - is world renown and many countries send their best and brightest there to improve the local agriculture.

I became a dad 1,5 years ago. And i had parental leave of 7,5 months. We moved from the Netherlands (Arnhem) to just cross the border of germany(Kleve) both cities are roughly 20 kilometers from Nijmegen And i daily crosses the border and drive to the netherlands for my work as a traffic controller. The dutch goverment paid me for tbe first 5 weeks 70% of my income. And the rest of my time was non paid. But in Germany is still is. So germany paid my 70% of my income for 7 months.

Having a baby at home has nothing to do with insurance. It's a choice you make. In The Netherlands it's pretty common having a baby at home. It's doesn't matter for the insurance though. If you want to go to the hospital and have your baby there, it's insured, do you want to stay at home, insurance will cover that too. And it's in the basic insurance, so available for everybody..

Don’t know if the answer already has been given. But kids stay on their parents health plan until the age of 18

The freezing doesn't do a lot to nutritional value, but it does change the structure of the fruit, which means the texture changes, and more often than not it hurts the mouthfeel and the taste by proxy.

These videos really make me feel like we're not doing things that badly :) All I hear about personally, is like the housing crisis, how expensive gas is, the financial crisis in 2008, COVID, this one mistake at the Belastingdienst resulting in tens of thousands of euros worth of debt for thousands of families (this has a name, but I can't think of it atm-)... you know, all the negative things, since all these positive things, I've grown so accustomed to, that I hardly even recognize them as special anymore. I shouldn't take my country for granted like that. I appreciate you, Netherlands, in spite of all your flaws!

Our 'kraamverzorgster' was ready for me to come home, ask me how my workday was, and actually took me aside to show me things I could do better, while listening to my worries. They take their job very seriously, and they're highly skilled.

@HCX!,i‘m Dutch MYself,but i learn so much about my/our Little Country,& makes Me even feel better & more oroud of our Tiny kingdom!

You so should check out the Elfstedentocht. Originally an ice skating tour through the 11 "cities" of the province of Friesland. Nowadays we got almost every sport doing the route in some way.

This is funny for me to see us a Portugese woman living in he Netherlands. All these things are so normal to me. Home birth, aftercare at home by a specialist caretaker (they also help doing dishes, washing clothes, interact with brothers and sisters and also takes care for them. She will clean, and do the medical controls for mother and child. She leaves the day with a nice home made meal. And....they stuff you with your fruits :D But seriously. Having a child for the first time, feels like you climbed the Himalaya, but also like you were run over by a bus. Your weaker than normal, I had more blood loss, so yeah, that takes time. Having her or him in your house and take care of you, your newborn, but also the household, cleaning, preparing meals for the family is awesome. Many fathers take their paternity leave after this nurse is gone. Healthcare. I was an ICU and OR nurse for a long time in the Netherlands. The standard is pretty high, they are progressive and try new techniques. But it is like she said a well function system. You are ill, sent to hospital and you will be studied for diagnosis and than a team of doctors, PA, specialized nurses work out a plan with you. You have many people to rely on and it works very good. These doctors and nurses have informative hours about patients that need more care or a different approaches. It is quick, very functional when we work with teams. Dietsts, Physiotherapy. All can be inviolved in a personal plan. These way patients cure faster, what is great for the patient, but also cost effective. Why can't every state in the USA do the same? Everybody pays, if you can't it will be payed (strict rules) and everybody has acces to the same high level of healthcare. rich or poor. Just curious ? :)

1 video featuring 2 people i like to watch .... Nice

The technique of growing crops in greenhouses is amazing over here. Take a look at a globe. Then see how small the Netherlands are. Then imagine that the most greenhouses are located near The Hague and Rotterdam. In fact a small part of the Netherlands. So a not visible tiny spot on the globe. And that tiny spot is producing a staggering amound of food. There products are sold worldwide. Their secret: agricultural techniques. The growing plants are stacked in multiple layers above each other, like highrises, in a system where the crops not even use traditional soil anymore. With special lighting in growth accelarating colors and recycling water systems. It is very high tech, but without the chemicals. I saw how in modern greenhouses is dealt with pest control. They don't use pesticides. Instead a camera system monitors for flying bugs. When the system spots so much as a fly a drone is launched that flies the bug out of the air. A superclean dream machine!!

When you give birth in a hospital, that's what your insurance is for. You basically only have to pay an "own risk" sum of around €500, depending on your insurance package. But that sum is a yearly sum for all your healthcare in total. You have the right to change insurance companies every year, so if you are planning on having a child you can be prepared by chosing the insurance that includes baby care.

Im going to try and briefly explain the healthcare system. People from 18 years old and older are obligated to get health insurance. The price starts at roughly 120 euros a month (with an own risk of 360 euros). To get the insurance, the government gives u a subsidiary of roughly 100 euros a month. Meaning: you just pay 20 bucks monthly. With this insurance, you can basically do and get anything. Dentist appointments, medicine, doctor checkups and operations, etcetera.

Having a tiny densely populated country does make good healthcare a lot more affordable. Wherever you are, a hospital is probably 5-10 minutes drive away. That means we dont need as many ambulances. Even when people are having acute health problems, they can probably get to a hospital quickly. I remember when I was a college student, one evening I had acute chest pains, so I called my dad, he came to pick me up and drove me to the hospital in our home town in a pretty short amount of time. Turned out to be pericarditis. In a more remote area I wouldve had to call the emergency number to get a trauma helicopter. Looking back I should probably have called an ambulance, but I didnt even consider it necessary, when I didnt know that I had a lethal condition.

Well there’s al lot More than Amsterdam indeed. I instagrammed you twice a link, of something we do in the most southern province . Hope you will review that one. I’ll still throw in a Dutch Bike Bell. 😂

18:23 That's exactly it what she's implaying. You pay for the content + an extra charge for the bottle (or can now) that you can return (in tact WITH the cap on) and get you extra charge back OR use for the new stuff.

Check out the "hongerwinter" (hungerwinter) at the ending of ww2. Half the country was at the point of starvation. Like the "watersnoodramp" (floods leading up to the deltaworks) it was a turning point in our history. Greenhouses, infrastructure, subsidies, innovation, education. All a result of the 'never again' mentallity I think defines us as being Dutch.

for every bottle of coke etc. we pay 0,25 cents, bring it back you get your 0,25 cent back. as a child we loved collecting them

Kraamzorg: getting a baby in a hospital costs the same as getting one at home: 0 Euro (all costs covered by the insurance). The after-birth-nurse will visit you for several hrs per day in the first week you are at home with a baby (so after u get home from hospital or after u got the baby at home). It can be extended if there are medical reasons (a doctor decides). It is 'free' (a small fee maybe).

Too bad she missed our massive technological innovation industry. We are very much high tech and beat Silicon Valley easily every year when it comes to high tech innovations, industries and products. It’s all centered more in the south of the Netherlands so even a lot Dutchies don’t even realize this. The ones with stocks in these companies do! 🤪 They got very rich over the last 15 years..

Children will stay on their parents health insurance until they’re 18. They need to pay their health insurance by themselves but they get this mostly fully subsidized back from our government. Like .. they need to pay a monthly insurance fee of €120,= they will get €107,= back via taxes from our government. So they need to pay very little money and are fully covered.

Health insurance in the Netherlands for youth is also till you are 18 years old. It was a good system, it is being hollowed out now though. To many people that aren't working while they are able

You hit it on the nail head HxC‼️

South Australia has a 10c deposit on glass drinks bottles and cartons. No deposit on alcohol containers.

Little late, but something else on recycling. We have separate garbage points for all kinds of garbage: batteries, chemicals, oils and fats for deep-frying, glass bottles without "statiegeld", old clothes, re-usable old clothes. Paper is collected separately, greens too and plastic&cans. Where I live, 10 garbage bags cost 10,9 € to stimulate everyone to recycle as much as possible. Also, the city comes to collect the bigger stuff (like an old couch) for free once a year or you can go to the "milieustraat" ( = environment street) to deliver it yourself. I think it's great.

Answer. No it is not a tax. It is still operated by privatized companies, but with strict rules and agreements. Then the state indeed offers help if you cant pay it. The monthly fee is roughly 100 euros per month for the base necessity coverage. (This base already covers most anything critical you will ever need). Additional insurance is mostly for healthcare like dentist and alternative medicin, chyro, fysio etc

About the recycling .... I just have to add some things. We do recycle so we'll, that we need garbage from other countries to keep our burning installations going. In Nijmegen, we had a test period, for collecting diapers and incontinence material apart from the rest of the trash. They can make bumpers for cars from the plastic inside the diapers and the feces/urine are used for energy. And more and more cities in the Netherlands do this. But one negative aspect is, that we do collect plastic also apart, but it gets shipped to other countries where it still can get into nature and it still isn't very good for the environment. At least that's what I heard 😢

Germany has no kraamzorg. In Germany you get assistance in the hospital since all births are done there. My GF is German and we live in the Netherlands. She was very happy with de kraamzorg we had 😉

Dutch agriculture export: total 50,4 billion euro. Product groups: natural fats and fats € 7,85 biljion: Fruit: €7,62 billion, Beverages/Drinks: € 5,95 billion; Other agricultural goods € 5,77 billion and dairy and eggs € 5,71 billion❤❤

Check out Jovie's Home as well, she is an expat from the U.S. (born in Serbia, then moved as a kid to Canada and then to the U.S.). She made vlogs of some of our provinces, really nicely done, even went to the Eurovision Song contest, got invited to join. She is getting her Dutch citizenship pretty soon and tells about that journey as well. Fun to watch, nice sense of humor and informative as well.

for a child in the netherlands with healthcare with their parents is also until the child is 18 but it is completely free, no extra charges and if something happens you also don't have to pay "own risk" just register your kid under your own healthcare provider (and even that is free of charge)

I like the word statiesgeld. Greeting from the Netherlands, Noord Brabant jonguh....

This sure was a great video!

The dutch agriculture structure is almost hightec :) The worked with the university of Wageningen to get better products and reduce quite a few things. To give you an example, they can grow a kilo (about 2.1 pounds) of tomatoes with only 20% of the water that other greenhouses needed for the same amount. The reasons why we invest so much in this kind of technology is that we had a hungerwinter in 1944 (WWII) so we made plans to not ever happend something like that again.

I love to watch your video's. Greets from The south province Noord-Brabant, The Netherlands

from the Netherlands thanks for the video

Paternity leave is very important for father’s to bond with their child.

Listen to Beste Zangers 2021 with Anneke van Giersbergen sing "Sobreviviré". She translated it into english and also listen on this show to Karsu sing "Hije de la luna". You will like both songs..

I am from Croatia, we have free health care and one year of paid maternity leave for the first and second child and for the third three years. And we have free education.Our mentality is such that we love to work but we also love to live life, our family comes first and we work to live and we do not live to work..

For us it's just normal haha

The second biggest exporter NOT producer that are 2 different things ! The Netherlands buy and sell also called trade , that is were we are very good in, learned through the centuries .

And Casey is back in town! Literally, I could just walk over there. You don’t, of course, it’d be invasive. But the thought is homely in a way

haha ,i would like to see you visit.we may even keep you

You found Casey! I love her.

I watch her channel too. She's awesome :) Another Dutchie here ;-)

Statiegeld you can see it as a tiny bail. When you buy a bottle in an store here in the Netherlands you pay for the bottle and you pay(bail) 0.25ct for it next to the bottle price when bottle is empty you bring it back you get your 0,25ct back.

What she said with the healthcare system part about expats complaining about only getting painkillers when seeing the doctor. We're fighting antibiotic resistance, you don't need an antibiotic for every single thing. Here the doctor will often say, have some painkillers be back in a week if the issue is still there. And surprise, our bodies are pretty decent at combatting stuff so you'll probably won't be back after that week is over. You get better in basically the same amount of time, antibiotics stay effective for when they're actually needed. It's a win-win. This applies to both humans and animals btw, and it works we have really good antimicrobial resistance compared to other countries.

You stay under your parents' health care insurance until you're 18 years old. After that you'll receive up to around €100 per month in funding from the government for health care insurance. HCI typically costs you around €100 a month

Paternity leave in the Netherlands is actually 1 week full paid, + 5 weeks at minimum wage.... But still amazing. Unfortunately this wasn't the case yet when I got my kids. I had 2 days paternity leave....

In 2020 (even during the Covid period) the Netherlands exported 95.6 billion euros worth of agricultural products. About 75% of cultivated agricultural products are destined for export. The Netherlands therefore grows three times more food than is necessary.

Goede video hxc, you are getting smarter and smarter.

I just watched this video again apparently and want to add something: many (not all) women don't go to a hospital to give birth. Mostly only when there's a chance there's something wrong (eg. when the child is two weeks late, or early). About having time to cook: In the USA (as I believe) many have multiple jobs, just to pay the bills and/or to pay for their debts. Here in Europe the work/life balance is much healthier. When your job is done, you've got spare time to do what ever you like.

Your Basic insurens is €98- / €105- Per mount. Then there are pluspakket. So I pay €187- per mount

I have been brought home by ambulances for free. Dutch healthcare is one of the best :P. As she said I as a student get money each month (97 euros right now) to pay for health insurance. The Lowest I could get it for would be about 85 euros, but this amount (97 eur) allows for dental insurance as well. Allowing for about 300 eur a year on dental work (for free as its about 97 eur). This 300 eur covers regular expenses that would be multiple thousands of usd in America. I have once had multiple hours of work needed on mine and it was ALL covered, this procedure would've cost about 10k without insurance in new york... We dutch don't like socialism, but on healthcare it works.