Biboo is TOO American for Japanese Healthcare 🇯🇵

Lol biboo got a big culture shock about Japanese healthcare system on how even when people are a little sick they still go to the Doctor lol
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[@monkey_magic-s3y]

00:54 "you don't, people don't tank it here?" Lol

[@yubihunter815]

The worst thing about American healthcare is that even if you decide to not tank a small sickness and pay the hospital bill, the doctors will literally tell you to go home and tank it, AND still charge you like a hundred dollar for telling you that. As someone who lived in a country with nationalized healthcare before moving to the US, It's crazy American people is used to this.

[@Bo0tmun]

I moved from Korea to the US years ago and found the healthcare system to be absurd. Eventually you just accept the gaslighting that this is normal.

[@CrizzyEyes]

It would be less frustrating if the health insurance companies weren't so incredibly stupid about it. Preventative endoscopy so you don't get stomach or throat cancer from acid reflux like all your relatives? Yeah you're going to have to pay like $1500 for that. But we'll cover any serious, life saving surgeries that you need! Here's a thought: What if you covered the preventative care so you didn't have to pay for the life saving surgery?

[@Arassar]

Thank Obama for the current nonsense we currently have to endure.

[@yubihunter815]

​@@Arassar Yes and no. If Obama went with the original proposal we would've had full on nationalized healthcare, but he pussied out so we are now left with this half assed ACA that is only for old people and the very poor, and even for those people it is still a much worse program then other countries healthcare system. He should've went all the way.

[@moonfisherman]

@@Arassar The Affordable Care Act increased nationalization of healthcare bringing it more in line with countries like Japan.

[@AmethystEnd]

Oi, Gemchan better force this rock to the hospital when she's actually sick.

[@shivangnegi7845]

Oh biboo get used to culture shock now that u live in japan!!! 😂😂

[@Jumpyman_thegamerYT]

Americans when they go to another country and see they won’t be put in crippling debt by visiting the hospital:

[@dr.professor5229]

Oh you can absolutely go into debt in the Japanese healthcare system

[@taigaaisaka6305]

​@@dr.professor5229 That is still cents compared to in the US.

[@AccountInactive]

Most people trashing American healthcare have never never been to a hospital. The high dollar amounts people post are what is being billed to insurance. Of course the numbers will be inflated.

[@yeoseotidle2290]

@@AccountInactivewhat happens when my insurance refuses to pay for the treatment?

[@frogfinance4605]

@@yeoseotidle2290 you literally just walk into the billing department and say "I cannot and will not pay this, make it lower" and they do. It can take a few weeks if the hospital/place are assholes, but you can quite literally negotiate how much you pay.

[@SN-ni9jd]

I'm Japanese. I think it's more a difference in the medical system than a culture shock. If it's just a cold, the patient's out-of-pocket expenses are probably around $7.

[@Gilgamesh-em6ru]

I got that culture shock when I was in the Navy. if you felt even a little sick they would send you to medical to get medicine so you didn't have to tank it. but now that I'm out I never go to the hospital outside of appointments/check-ups. they make you feel so bad for missing even a few hours to get checked out in any job in the U.S. it's insane.

[@WindupTerminus]

To be fair, even in Sweden I would've never gone to the doctor just because of that. Odds are when calling to book an appointment they'll just straight up tell me to take an aspirin and call again in a week if I'm not better.

[@druegnor1703]

Lived in Japan for 6 years and only visit doctor 2 times for sickness/injuries (Minus the compulsory healthcheckup everyyear), my Korean colleague there always visit the hospital/clinic even for a small fever and cough. Probably just an eastern culture.

[@hitthedeck4115]

Yeah, the idea of having to get up and walk/take a bus/etc. to the doctor already makes me feel worse.

[@Laru-]

​@@hitthedeck4115for reference in Spain we can book a telephone call with our doctor from the app for small things , not sure if Japan has it. One of the good things to come out from covid.

[@StormCrusher94]

At least they won't charge you an arm and a leg for that phone call.

[@daaawwwaaa]

These days u can call a healthcare support/advise number and a nurse will talk to u and give some advise if u are uncertain if u should tank or go see a doctor. Saves u the time and the 0-9€ depending on your ager

[@87rabbitsproductions71]

I’ve been living inJapan for 5 years and still have this issue. Been just once because of work related practice for Covid prevention to get checked out. It wasn’t the varus. Other than that, my company does schedule me a once a year physical which I do like as it puts me at ease that there aren’t any major issues.

[@SPHYNX_9982]

Biboo awakens to the fact that her home country is an oligarchy state.

[@germanalfaro6342]

Oh Biboo acostúmbrate a los shock culturales ahora que vives en Japón!!!!😂

[@82nd_Alpharius]

She's rock hard, she's tougher than a simple sick 🪨

[@AtticusKarpenter]

Yeah in pretty much every other first world country people actually go to doctor when they got sick. Even if just to make sure its nothing serious, because if it is then its much easier to deal with it at the early stages

[@rich1051414]

Americans: Doctor?! They will just give me aspirn and a bill for a billion dollars. No thank you. I will just lay here and die, tyvm.

[@numberoneappgames]

Us Americans be like: Some of us may survive. lmao

[@Epistolary8]

Health Insurance CEOs: “Some of you may die, but that is a sacrifice that I am willing to make.”

[@techead23]

All we did in my family was put some Vicks on it, and take some of those grape cough meds

[@NeuronActivation]

American Healthcare: "Hmm yes here's the band-aid for the cut. Now the bill will be 6900"

[@AccountInactive]

You forgot "when billing the blank check that is the insurance industry." Self payers don't go bankrupt for basic services.

[@hammerhyena4207]

It's the price of stupidity for going to the hospital for a small cut.

[@SPHYNX_9982]

@@hammerhyena4207 It is Darwinism if there is a life-threatening infection from a "small" cut.

[@ntma]

tank it if you dont feel like youre dying. thats how it be

[@hinatawawawa]

I'm Japanese tho I don't go to hospital when I get simple cold. But I always go to hospital when I sneeze a lot due to allergies like hay fever.

[@kouvang522]

Same thing happened last year. I got really sick, severe cough, pale skin, cold sweats, tanked it through the morning, took a half day and still felt horrible the next day so I called in. My workplace called and asked if I needed an escort to the hospital cause they were really worried about me.

[@Nixthyo]

I like how the American flag is shown with the cry of a red-tailed hawk.

[@Aeroxima]

wow, you've heard the thing everyone on the internet is hearing at the same time too? Amazing, you're so smart!

[@Mogo-jan]

With everything going on with healthcare in the us rn, this makes me laugh and hurt at the same time 😭

[@deathwizard1996]

I agree the hostilities of a hospital bill in America would be pretty hefty to pay

[@MrFenix230]

Here in america we take a Paracetamol and wait for the death

[@cathomasuw]

"Here in America" "Paracetamol" uh huh sure buddy. Do you just ride the tube over to the chemist for that then?

[@fenrir3097]

Paracetamol isn't a thing in America and Canada.

[@Patte-chan]

@@fenrir3097 Of course it is. They have a brand called Tylenol.

[@fenrir3097]

@@Patte-chanYou are missing the point. Americans don't call it Paracetamol. The brand is Tylenol but the ingredient is Acetaminophen in the west.

[@Patte-chan]

@@fenrir3097 Yes, the active ingredient is N-acetyl-para-aminophenol, or in short, paracetamol.

[@Raul_27]

Medical bills are scary.

[@Praisethesunson]

TF is a medical bill? -More civilized parts of the world

[@peeradettanawiwat7193]

wait until she know every non-emergency case in Thailand costs only $1

[@cefcephatus]

Momseki: "Feeling sick? Here's an inhaler." Biboo: *Take out inhaler in front of mane-chan.* Mane-chan: *gasp* "INHALER!!!!"

[@カルボキシ]

Tiger Balm has long been a familiar drug in Japan.

[@DarukaEon]

Or the Vicks Vaporub on the bottom of your feet, chest, neck, and eyes (moreso under the eyes like where the bags are). But, that Tiger Balm, doe. Ha ha ha ha ha!

[@SpoonHurler]

Tank it like a pro... I love this rock.

[@regalientrandy]

Nyess, SEA here! Just have the very same culture shock when we go to JP and got that health insurance 😂

[@PrinzEugenz]

Mococo used to be sick (she has a problem with her throat, I think). She went to the doctor, he gave her a straw, a cup of water and have her blow some bubble into it. Done. "That will be one akasupa, thank you."

[@gourmand3]

That's a lot of excuses for simply being too introverted to go to the doctor without your mom Biboo....

[@BeTeK11]

I can take up to 3 days off with my own notification. If I have normal flu I just notify my workplace and take day off. This is in Finland

[@puhanlemontian6026]

this is why everytime i have to explain to people in the west that a holo member go to hospital does not mean she is having serious sickness and dying, i saw people were saying that holo is black company because a member just went to went to recording the day after a hospital visit, should let them recover, but in reality 99% are minor things, i go to hospital for cough and fever, but to Americans going to hospital seems like a life threatening big deal.

[@winter7000]

I feel like going to the hospital for minor illnesses is a very Asian thing to do. Even here in NZ and AUS we just tank it

[@exploshaun]

In Japan, you better hope you get sick on a weekday, because clinics close on the weekends.

[@kwj_nekko_6320]

It depends on the neighborhoods. Some places are lucky enough to have some clinics open on Saturday (or even Sunday, in much rarer occasions).

[@imarobot2415]

she just made a very sublte reference to death grips she is truly ourgirl

[@1.2.1.0.R.I.O]

I've been abusing my insurance ever since I got one half paid by my company. Free consultations and laboratories make me go regularly

[@looseleaf7367]

I get the sentiment, I was in an accident and waffled on about going to the hospital, but if you just got a cold, literally what are they gonna do? Cold's a cold, get whatever you need to manage the symptoms and rest until it goes away. Or is cough medicine behind the counter or something out there? Someone please explain me some knowledge, because I'm confused.

[@plipplop728]

"Getting whatever you need to manage the symptoms" is exactly the reason I go to the doctor, I get it from them instead of having a rack full of meds in the house, I don't even have a cough syrup lol. The key thing here is that the bill doesn't scare us, so it's just easier and simpler to just go to the doctor.

[@essach9750]

As a polish citizen, I go to see the doctor probably at least 4-5 times a year. Maybe because im ofter ill but we have free healthcare so who cares

[@plipplop728]

I think the "who cares" part is what the Americans doesn't understand. I'm Indonesian and we don't have the best healthcare system, but going to a doctor is pretty whatever. If it's just a very minor cold then sure, I got some paracetamol and ibuprofen, but if it's even slighltly worse then I just see a doctor. The reason why this topic is even brought up is because they're scared of the bills.

[@Aeroxima]

The "who cares" is you're making the waiting list longer, which is also something that, as an American, gives me doubts about your system. I've heard people in "free" healthcare places often get private insurance because the wait times are awful, so they're really just paying insurance twice, just one is in the form of taxes. Maybe it doesn't bother YOU, but in a system like that, there's only so many resources available and you're taking them up if you go when you don't need to. I wouldn't go around acting morally superior or more socially conscious in that case

[@jeremygeller9145]

Deny, defend, depose

[@DeniSaputta]

80 Billions in annual profits for private health insurance

[@SPHYNX_9982]

Luigi Mangione is a hero

[@Mr.Friswall]

She got traumatized by USA healthcare system that making her scared with doctors.XD

[@nanapo7iro]

個人差はありますが、日本人でも軽い病気で病院に行く人は少ないです。ビジューは子供で大切な宝石なので病院で診断してくださいと言われたのです。

[@GitsSAC9]

配信活動に影響するから病院に行くように勧められたんだろうね ほとんどの日本人は普通は市販の薬で我慢してると思う

[@ぴーのぴろしき]

子供ではないだろ

[@kmasstwin4395]

赤ちゃんだしな

[@nekochadechu]

Even with France's cheap healthcare I'm too lazy to take an appointment and take the bus so I just self medicate even if i'm coughing dying shaking 😂

[@japhahimura4212]

0.023 cent for checkup and you will get free basic cold and cough medicines in a police or army quarters publicly opened for everyone...

[@nagasako7]

Americans: "Nani!?"

[@NarkuDes]

I hope Biboo can get her check-up next time, I’m still sadden by how America’s healthcare system is just bad. A simple check-up here with insurance prolly takes around 30-40$ with Insurance, which covers 70-50-20% depending on income

[@juanjosemendivil1626]

Besides medical bills, I'm afraid to go to the hospital for something so little that we wasted everyone's time. The best that America can offer is to buy medicine in the pharmacy that has half the things you got and get to work.

[@looseleaf7367]

I mean, if it's a cold, nothing's gonna make that virus go away faster but resting, feeding, and managing temperatures anyway.

[@Con-Pin-]

I don’t go to the doctor when it is obviously a basic cold, but anything that I can’t be sure about I will get it confirmed

[@zenalias3131]

LAMO The Sick Asian Starter pack is sooooo on brand. As a SEA bro, I can vouch for the legitimacy and effectiveness of the starter pack. My top picks are Nin Jiom Pei Pa Koa for throat problems and Po Chai pills for diarrhea.

[@Throughthelurkinglass]

I wait 3 days and if i dont feel better, ill go, never went past 3 days, havent seen a doctor since 2005, not even in America, in Fiji, never even took a single Covid test either.

[@aglis_]

Much of Asian culture don't go to the hospital for small things like colds or a stomach ache. Also yeah in America they overprescribe.

[@KhairulFadzlyAKarim]

That's a combo, being too American to go to a doctor and too Asian to believe in home remedies are better.

[@TsusakuCohenat]

Tiger Balm is so good to apply under the nose, if you have it stuffed, not so much, if you thoughlessly put fingers, which still have some of it on, in your eyes 🤣

[@KP0719x]

Usually they’d apply it to your back and chest area and use like a coin to scratch it through in kind of like a pattern. It’s suppose to open up your airways or whatever.

[@antaris905]

Asian parenting plus US health care horror stories equals “Acetaminophen, naproxen, and ibuprofen fix everything”.

[@reimasashi]

As asian, you dont go to doctor when youre sick, youll get well eventually. Its just overspending on something you dont need lmaoo

[@porkcutlet3920]

What, don't you need a medical certificate to get off from work?

[@Hagaren333]

WTF IS A KILOMETER!!!!???

[@wasabikemosabe1773]

Canadians and any other country with universal healthcare: WTF IS A HEALTH INSURANCE!!!!!????

[@alcor4670]

Lined up end to end, around six thousand five hundred sixty hoagies.

[@Michael59197]

What do doctors do in America? A friend who is a doctor has to work even today... to avoid a family gathering.

[@lukeshoo]

??? I live in America and people tell me to go to the doctor every time I tell them I feel a little sick. Some people are just like that.

[@adityapratama1236]

maybe she's indeed american, but this kind of "it's just common cold, no need to see the doctor" is a typical southern/south east asian value.

[@kmasstwin4395]

国民皆保険制度に感謝

[@Viriyamt]

I suspect that biboo is american thai mix

[@hammerhyena4207]

Just take 1200MG of ibuprofen and a couple shots of tequila.

[@Tynrova]

Yeah! Tank it! Americans aren't weak like that!

[@warsac99]

Pake balsem atau minyak kayu putih selesai 😅

[@waterboih2054]

It's honestly sad witnessing the bad american healthcare system, everyone should deserve proper human rights.

[@KeebeThePlush]

This is not the biboo way

[@fifteen3097]

what do you mean "tanked" in Japanese?

[@cha7er]

like a タンク character in a video game

[@AlgebraicAnalysis]

Ignore the first reply, they have no idea what they're talking about. To "tank" something in Japanese would be 耐える (taeru) i.e. endure.

[@fifteen3097]

thank you! EN niki!

[@__-nt2wh]

@@AlgebraicAnalysis that's pretty much what a tank character does, no?

[@Aeroxima]

@@__-nt2wh Yes, and it's why she's using the word. It would be a weird thing to say with people that don't understand those kinds of games, people will look at you weird and not understand

[@jonel3596]

same

[@YerA5s]

Rub some Tiger balm, now you better

[@yujishimabuku]

日本の健康保険は適用されるのかな？

[@isaacfentom8684]

Wdym..She's not even an American 😂

[@tranz2deep]

Biboo, you should go to the doctor. It's a genuine part of Japanese societal expectations. I have worked fast food jobs in three regions of the U.S. In the Southern states, they talk a big game about sanitary standards... and try to talk you into coming in to work with a head cold. In Minnesota, the banking may be a mess but the restaurants actually accept sick calls. On the West Coast, you need to actively certify and adhere to sanitary standards, I had to test out for the certificate.

[@ThePainqT]

No , you dont do that .

[@ivo333]

kawaiii

[@Traitor-4]

Medical bill is the reason why I won't go to the clinic They charge 500 for small cough

[@Road_to_Dawn]

This is so real, Americans don't go to the doctor unless it's an emergency like they cut off a finger, or felt their kidney explode. I was about to list "vomiting for a week straight" as a reason to go to the doctor, but then I thought about it and I know I wouldn't go for that reason. I genuinely can't imagine going to the doctor if you think you're starting to feel cold symptoms.

[@flynnoflenniken7402]

I got the flu last year, and I didn't go to the doctor until I got night sweats and started hacking up blood. They gave me a steroid and some cough syrup and charged me $500 for it. Was trying to tank it, but it got to a point where I thought I might be dying.

[@domeinn1053]

日本は病院に行ってもそんなにお金かからんからなあ 保険の違いなんかな？

[@Kiwi-rn4pp]

The japanese can endure a 15 hour shift but will call an ambulance because of a runny nose

[@poundtown3429]

Tanked it is crazy

[@silentKeys20]

American gamer lingo 😅

[@Fatso666]

This is Japan where a cold or flu is seen as being a life ending disease though. So much drama over the common cold

[@IsaiahBen-e5u]

:D

[@flynnoflenniken7402]

I'm honestly just like... "Guess I'll just die." if I get really sick with some weird illness here.

[@oatkungar]

Wdym in Japan you don’t have to put your house on mortgage to pay hospital bills??? Is this a fictional place? Is Japan even real?

[@Neipalm]

She went from one country with an extreme cultural view on healthcare to the opposite. In America they tank the sickness, even it it seems to not be getting better because doctors are expensive. In Japan they go to the doctor for even the smallest of things and they tell you "Oh it's a cold. You just need to rest" and you've wasted a lot of time but not any money.

[@Road_to_Dawn]

This reminds me of all the times the main character in an anime has gone to the nurse's office to take a nap. I'm always shocked every single time that the nurse lets them do that with no questions asked. I attended 5 different schools growing up (we moved around a lot) and there's no way a single one of them would've allowed us to do that. Hell, they didn't even have beds. Even if we were running a fever and/or vomiting, the most they'd do is give us some cough medicine and maybe call our parents to pick us up if they could.

[@ithildiess9048]

Asian mindset is? Doctor ? Ewww no give doctor money you keep money! Just ruba dub dub you will feel fiiiine!

[@ComplexMotivations]

Yeah, the only reason why Japan has a valuable health system is because they have strict immigration laws. Having to wait years for a life-saving surgery is my life right now.

[@meongskia]

Murican with their expensive health care cant relate

[@Theendgamelv3]

When you realize the American spirit of toughening out is mainly due to high med bills and nothing more....lol.

[@mshake7056]

I live by the border and going to the doctor is so easy just crossing the border and get everything done with no crippling dept. Same for my pets! America just sucks

[@AccountInactive]

I'm convinced most people who trash talk American healthcare have never actually paid a hospital bill. I'm self employed and uninsured (well, hsa, but not traditional insurance company), and even an er visit didn't bankrupt me. Self pay amount is not the sticker shock amount being billed to insurance.

[@druegnor1703]

In Japan, if you have National Insurance, whatever the clinic/hospital bill is, the system paid 70% of the bills. Yeah, lived in Japan for 6 years, only experience visit 2 times. But then again, Japan Healthcare don't willing nilly giving medication due to fear of drug resistance and to saving cost. If it just a fever, the doctor just probably advise drink hot lemon water, take a lot of shower, and tanked it while sleep.

[@alcor4670]

@@druegnor1703 Does the Japanese MD send you a bill for the visit? To be more specific, does the Japanese National Insurance cover the cost of the MD appointment?

[@silentKeys20]

I'm convinced people who deny the absurdity of the American Healthcare System has not even tried healthcare elsewhere in a first world country.

[@cha7er]

whatever you paid wouldve been probably 1/5th or 1/8th the amount in japan self pay

[@rever-x8y]

What does hsa mean ? I'm not American

[@WobileeSausage]

I pay 20$ to go to the Dr in America...idk what some people in the comments be talking about lmao

[@AccountInactive]

They've never paid a hospital bill. I had an abdominal ultrasound three weeks ago. $175. In March, I had an ER visit. Ekg, full blood panel, chest xray, head ct, the works PLUS the ER admittance itself. Paid a little over 2k from my hsa for what would've been nearly 10k billed to insurance.

[@sjorahx5651]

​@@AccountInactive Ultrasound in my country is around 25 USD based on current forex rates so it is pretty expensive for you compared to another country so dont defend the american medical system why a terrorist already tried to kill someone because of it.

[@cha7er]

im uninsured and simple nurse practitioner visits are 115, i had to pay for blood tests and it was an additional 80, it didnt give me an answer so another visit to try a different medication wouldve been another 115. also i was avoiding the er for chest pain because i thought having to pay 500-1k for an uninsured er (plus the multi hour long wait) visit would make my chest pain worse if it wasnt a heart attack lol