This is why I love healthcare in Norway!

[@vipushiya7594]

great video

[@dranthonyg]

Ty!!! ❤️❤️❤️

[@nettnett63]

the summer of 2021 I spent 80 days in hospital, including dialyses, ct, x-ray, surgery, and lots - - payed zero. This is why I gladly pay my taxes, so the next patient also get treatment, no matter income.

[@dranthonyg]

That is amazing 🤩

[@TrondBørgeKrokli]

Thank you for pointing out how beneficial healthcare solutions are in Norway, as a Norwegian I often forget about it and take it for granted. Heck, when I was a small kid I thought that this is how healthcare works most places in the world, or at least in democratic countries with low levels of poverty. I admit that my adult years has made me understand that living in a wealthy country does not automatically guarantee that you get affordable healthcare and some fundamental social services covered by the state or national budget.

[@bookinsights1092]

Stop advertising your country because it will get flooded by people and everything will become extremely bad. Just look at Canada. Canada also has free healthcare and many of the same perks as Norway but it is becoming very hard for people to get a check up because of huge demand due to mass immigration and now people are simply dying because of the long waiting time. Norway should learn from Canada , UK and others and control their borders otherwise you will have a lot of problems.

[@TullaRask]

What you say, and the fact that a wealthy country doesn't mean there people are wealthy.

[@strawberryme08]

Are Norwegians open to natural remedies? Is it easy to find bulk herbs and homeopathy? My sons is moving there in a few months and I want to be able to get him his nettle for minerals etc

[@dranthonyg]

@strawberryme08 I'm honestly not sure since I don't use much natural remedies. I'm sure your sons will be just fine either way tho ☺️

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

​@@strawberryme08 Don't worry. Norway has all that. Your son can bring this up with his GP. Love from Norway 🇳🇴

[@espenbakke1584]

I was unlucky and cut off parts of a finger..it cost me nothing to get help. I have also had sick parents who were in hospital. One for over two years, the other for about 6 months. All free. Greetings from Norway

[@lapis3834]

So grateful to live in Norway. After I got KZbin, especially when I really noticed how it's not like this everywhere in most of the world. glad you aprecciated it and got help, as I wish everyone in the world could get when needed it. Thank you for the nice video .

[@dranthonyg]

You're so welcome! Hope you enjoy the follow-up videos I did too!!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGi5hqKObdCakJo and kzbin.info/www/bejne/omGWZYuFrM-Co6c

[@mailyholmertz2006]

Welcome to Scandinavia! The health care system is almost the same in Denmark and Sweden,you only have to worry about your health and not the costs.

[@lakhdarchannel1831]

Good evening, I am Rachid from Algeria My mother suffers a lot for years from pain due to osteoporosis, but the treatment system in Algeria is not developed. Is treatment in Norway free, and does it include patients from outside Norway or the European Union?

[@dranthonyg]

Hi Lakhdar! I believe treatment is free but I imagine it varies based on a person's diagnosis. It should be available to residents of Norway.

[@Dustemikkel_Rev]

It's a bit odd for me as a norwegian to hear our healthcare described like this. We take these things for granted. We pay taxes, so why shouldn't we get something in return?

[@jasehomeinspections6938]

Well as Americans we pay taxes and really get nothing. The politicians and their friends get rich and we send plenty to other countries......but nothing for us. So.....you should feel really lucky.

[@ordemeprogresso727]

​@@jasehomeinspections6938 We aren't more lucky than you guys, jesus christ! this site is a bullshit propaganda about how the healthcare system is being said by Norway. You should know that even though our government pay for the procedure, we still have a long waiting list. It take even 12 to 18 month for a singel opertaion. And many of our patients, who have other disease want get the same treatments here, so they have to travel abroad either to Germany or America to get further assistents, and i promise you this! the government want cover your cost if you once decide to leave this Country, and seeks for more professional help. Their is no competition in the healthcare business in this country, cause we only have one official company that owns the healthcare, mainly our government. Remember that healthcare isn't free anywhere you travel, we even pay 40% taxes, quite high in my opinion, and the service sector sucks for both private and public. like i said their is no competition so everything runs slow her. Dont be blind by the truth, and even you know that taxes aren't free either.

[@indian2003]

@@jasehomeinspections6938 At least you are the oldest democracy in the world or at least think so. Presidents keeping slaves, blacks being lynched, selling of slaves….they all happened in the worlds oldest democracy.

[@linnsoltwedel]

We might pay lots in taxes in Norway, but someone with a chronic illness this is so calming knowing that I will not be bankrupted if I get sick.

[@jubmelahtes]

We don't even pay that much taxes as compared to what we get in return, in countries where you have to pay for an insurance instead most people will end up paying more for less than we do.

[@TullaRask]

That is sooo true. I have chronic illness. In the US I would be banqrupt and dead.

[@linnsoltwedel]

@@jubmelahtes So true! Although people hate how much taxes we pay, but I pay it with almost joy!

[@demolazer]

We suck here in the UK, but still for my chronic illness I've been sent to all sorts of doctors and expensive procedures without question.

[@frodej6640]

​@@jubmelahtes "We don't even pay that much taxes" Technically you might pay as little as 40% if you compound all the taxes. You have an artificially low wage because it is pretaxed. Bottom 80% of earners receive more than they pay to the system. I understand why you celebrate. Just know that funding useless jobs, spending money on war and shit, destroying businesses and chasing of those who made the country rich, will hit you hard. The left will always cut in healthcare and police before a single useless is put out of work.

[@Smartmovesstayingahead]

If it could only be like this in America it would be the best honestly

[@KjetilBalstad]

That would need to change the entire society and mentality of the US population though?

[@dranthonyg]

Yeah no doubt about it. Mindset and value system change. 😅

[@biankakoettlitz6979]

In Norway we have a consulting fee if you go to the doctor, begins each year at1.1., but if one reach a the amount, the government sets as a limit, you hadn't to pay anymore for this year 😀

[@dranthonyg]

Love this! I've hit that cap many a time!

[@southernpinkrose]

Your videos are always so informative and interesting, especially for people living in other countries, thanks!

[@julienor9845]

Thank for this story!

[@dranthonyg]

☺️☺️☺️I wasn't sure if it was a story worth telling! I appreciate the encouragement!!!

[@linnsoltwedel]

I would love to move to the US, but since I have a chronic illness it would be very expensive! I am so grateful that I live in Norway and giving birth or getting seriously ill will not put me in insane debt!

[@ordemeprogresso727]

🤣 Nice joke

[@strawberryme08]

You’ll get sicker with the garbage chemicals and sugar in everything here too 😅

[@linnsoltwedel]

@@strawberryme08 I must be a little slow, but I did not get that :P

[@ninaelsbethgustavsen2131]

​​@@linnsoltwedel US doctors will promt you to take all kinds of shitty meds, as they're sponsored by the manufactoring companies. And all processed foods, including bread, are full of sugar...

[@missJolie85]

@@linnsoltwedel She ment all the fast food and processed food they have in the US. That would have made you even sicker.

[@tresvecesno7071]

Thanks!

[@TravellingTorunn]

Yes, I am a Norwegian living in Norway and this is the normal situation. You might even have gotten the taxi fare back if you had applied for it 😉

[@throfur3489]

100% sure he would have if he applied for it.

[@dranthonyg]

If only I would have known!!! 🤦🤦🤦 Ty! Good to know for the future!

[@ordemeprogresso727]

@@dranthonyg I dont necessarily agree, the healtcare system in Norway is way worse in my opinion compared to France or even America, they might be good when it comes to emergencies or acute. But if you are a patients and desperately need medical treatment due to cancer or other diseases, you will have to book an appointment, the waiting hours for a procedure could take everywhere from 12 month to even 18 month.

[@ordemeprogresso727]

In my opinion if i would put Norway in a medical pedestal, and compare to other country such as Germany, France and even America, i would say they are in 13 place, of the best healtcare.

[@dranthonyg]

@@ordemeprogresso727 I hear you! I think I just appreciate that when I go to the ER I don't have to worry about the cost because it's already part of my taxes

[@oddeman3489]

Everyone all over should have this free healthcare system over everything else a government think's they need.

[@susannastorytime]

Norway 🇳🇴 is AWESOME 👌

[@SunnyHillHoney]

Thank you for an informative video 😊

[@dranthonyg]

You're very welcome!

[@indian2003]

Norway sound like a dream in other countries. How many know that young people are put into care homes for the elderly? A concrete case i know about is a girl of 18 who was placed beside a man of 96 years. She stayed there for 11 years and part of her routine was seeing dead people being wheeled around in coffins. The politicians dont want to know about these cases. The newspapers will not touch this case. So much for the free press in Norway.

[@TullaRask]

How would that be in India? If you're rich you can get whatever you want, otherwise you're stuffed?

[@dranthonyg]

Ty for sharing your story! Didn't know this was true

[@TullaRask]

@indian2003 Also, we have had that kind of cases in Norway, but it's not like the family have to put the 18 year old in care. It's fully possible to do it at home, if you can afford it.

[@indian2003]

@@TullaRask Google Charlotte Sviland and the newpaper article is still out there. I can also mail the screenshots of the whote article.

[@TullaRask]

@@indian2003 If you can refer me to a newspaper article it isn't for the lack of free press is it? Norwegians knows this excist, but we have never said our healthsystem is perfect, nothing ever is. I guess sitting in India it's easy to think like that because it makes your own health system look less look less like a failure ;)

[@shahzadnamiat8869]

God bless you

[@shahzadnamiat8869]

My way is staff nurse can you help him for job in Norway

[@Traslan]

Eummm... you shouldn't have payed for taxi home 😳 If the doctor forgets, just ask a nurse next time 😉 They'll help you out 💯👌🏻

[@dranthonyg]

Fabulous advice!!! Ty!! ☺️☺️☺️

[@missJolie85]

He shouldn't have gotten a taxi home, he was feeling stronger and better and was discharged from the hospital. I know the health care here is good, but it's not there to cover every single expense either.

[@janpetterarcher4218]

Did you get a refund for the taxi? You should, you know.

[@dranthonyg]

😱😱😱I didn't even know that was an option!!! Noted for next time!!! ☺️☺️☺️Thanks for the tip!

[@norXmal]

@@dranthonyg If you spend over a certain amount per year(2921 kroner), you can ask to have any of the amounts exceeding it reimbursed, it covers only what is essential, transportation to and from, medicine, treatment, etc. If I remember right, it should be automatic when you've hit the amount and will be given a "frikort/freecard"

[@dranthonyg]

@@norXmal so cool!!!

[@torernning8652]

@@norXmal Yes, it is automatic.

[@Rolf-farmedfacts-supervisor]

@@torernning8652 Well, sometimes you have to tell the receptionist,or else they may send a bill purely because they havent been updating\manual billing.

[@lakhdarchannel1831]

Good evening, I am Rachid from Algeria My mother suffers a lot for years from pain due to osteoporosis, but the treatment system in Algeria is not developed. Is treatment in Norway free, and does it include patients from outside Norway or the European Union?

[@dranthonyg]

Hey Rachid! Yes it's free for citizens and residents of Norway no matter where you're from originally!

[@povei408]

as a Ukrainian looking for how Norwegian healthcare system works i was excited and surprised to see a t-shirt with the caption in Ukrainian in this video :)

[@dranthonyg]

Awwwwwww that makes me happy! I got it when I was last in Lviv! Have been working in Ukraine for about 5 years now. I can't wait to come back!!!

[@ilyesnoah782]

Informative video, please sir how to get in touch with you I have a disease and I'm willing to recolate to Norway and I need to know the steps

[@dranthonyg]

I'm sorry to hear about your illness! There are some great resources online about immigration in Norway! Just check udi.no

[@ilyesnoah782]

@@dranthonyg I've checked them sir thanks but my question is how to get in touch with a hospital or a clinic for my case, I need an offer for treatment from one instition and I don't know how to contact them please have you an idea cause it's an emergency case my health is under line here

[@dranthonyg]

@@ilyesnoah782 I'm not completely sure but generally in order to receive the kind of treatment you're looking for you'd have to be a resident.

[@renehoyvik]

I hope the surgery and recovery was successful :)

[@dranthonyg]

It was! Ty! ☺️ I did some follow up videos of you're interested! kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGi5hqKObdCakJo and kzbin.info/www/bejne/omGWZYuFrM-Co6c

[@mathrafal]

I had a serious eye operation ten years ago. I didn’t have to pay a penny. I live 200 miles from Oslo and had 15 minutes to get on the train. At the other end, I had a taxi waiting. All was covered. I had to meet with the eye doctor on the day of my release, which was later than the last train I could get to go home. They told me, ‘No worries, we’ll get you a taxi’, and they did. The bill was 7,200 kroner and I had to pay 180 of that. I wish anglophone countries could understand that paying taxes provides this sort of treatment. Moreover, that they might need a service such as this some days. Instead, they hide behind cost and, in the USA, crippling medical debts that are not always covered by insurance, especially among the lower paid or self employed. Norway rules the roost!

[@dranthonyg]

Absolutely amazing! Ty so much for sharing your story! It brought a bright end to my weekend ☺️☺️☺️

[@magnuswinther9019]

He also forgot to metion how the hospital covers his taxi from the hospital (and even to - if you ask for it).

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

The hospital doesn't do that, it's organised by pasientreiser, and probably paid by nav. The hospital can help you with it, but no, they do NOT "cover" it.

[@TullaRask]

​@@johnnymartinjohansenIn the end it all goes through the same contributor. The Norwegian state, or county or municipality, so yes it is covered.

[@JonJahren]

Did you lecture at HiOA about web design/development? It was so weird just stumbling across this video and trying to find out where I'd seen you before!

[@dranthonyg]

I did ☺️ getting ready for the next semester in a couple of weeks!

[@RealHealthyGuidance]

Norway FTW

[@dranthonyg]

Without a doubt!!! ☺️☺️☺️

[@kilipaki87oritahiti]

Well you still gotta pay for your doctors and dentist appointments so it’s not really “free” per say… I’m poor and it’s not exactly cheap, but we have the solution of a free card after paying over a certain amount of NOK, it’s be free.

[@dranthonyg]

Yeah I hear you. True story.

[@generalshepherd457]

In Norway there are a lot of amateur doctors that gets to do operations that they are not quallified to do. So people end up with amputated legs and arms. The law suits are also comical because you end up with just a few 100,000 Nok for a ruined body.

[@abettum5441]

ha ha ha ha ha!!!! You Sir, need to stop doing drugs...

[@generalshepherd457]

@@abettum5441 flekkefjordlegen

[@noibj1]

@@abettum5441 Of course he is 🤣🤣😂

[@abettum5441]

@@generalshepherd457 Ett eksempel der altså. Dette er jo en klar systemsvikt. Noe som kan forekomme i alle land. Du får det til å høres ut som om dette er standarden i norsk helsevesen...

[@generalshepherd457]

@@abettum5441 bleh

[@sunshinejansen85]

🤩👌

[@Captnoatp]

So……… how did the surgery go??

[@Goldenhawk583]

good question, he forgot to say that, lol. I will guess it went ok, since seems so happy, bit it would be nice if he said it :D

[@dranthonyg]

It went well!!! I posted a follow-up video here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/omGWZYuFrM-Co6c thanks for your support!!! You are amazing!!! ☺️☺️☺️

[@gedtierney374]

UK health service is free. However we have a backlog of 7million people waiting for treatment. Our healthcare is on its knees. Doctors and nurses are striking because the government don’t pay them enough. The UK is financially broken.

[@studiomossige2997]

Yeah……that horrible socialist country Norway that dont let you worry about anything else than recovery……hahahahaha we should defently inform Ingram, she will do a scary feature about this horror…..

[@dranthonyg]

😆😆😆😁😁😁

[@Rolf-farmedfacts-supervisor]

These terms means something entirely different in the US..Im soo happy you settled here🇳🇴😊😊👍👍 Old norse saying; "We used to be real xxxholes, but now we are peoplepersons"

[@user-ox9mk7cr2h]

Happy to hear that you had a good experience with the Norwegian healthcare system. However, my experience is the opposite. I'm very unhappy with the current state of the system. You have cystic acne that scars up your face? 6 months wait to see a dermatologist. You have severe depression and anxiety? 1 year wait for a therapist, if you are so fortunate that you are allowed on the waiting list. You're a student living away from home, and want to see a doctor? There's one place you can go, and they will refuse you unless they deem it as acute. You have moved to another city and need a primary care physician, or you're just unhappy with your current one? Too bad, in many cities and towns there are not a single one available. Can't breathe through your nose because of a deviated septum? In my city, there's a 2.5 year wait for a surgery. You're a nurse? Nurses are quitting in droves because of understaffing, stress and poor working conditions. A recent survey revealed that 72% of nurses are considering quitting their jobs. I think we deserve a better healthcare system than the current one.

[@dranthonyg]

I hear you and that sounds absolutely horrible. I'm sorry the system treated you this way. 😔 Ty for sharing your experience. I agree we can always do better! 💪

[@janhulst8189]

Were you cured?

[@dranthonyg]

Yes!!! Doing so much better! You can see the follow-up videos here! kzbin.info/www/bejne/omGWZYuFrM-Co6c and kzbin.info/www/bejne/rGi5hqKObdCakJo

[@eddale5557]

Wel we pay taxes for this here and only cost you about 200 kr in selfpay or what it is named 200 kr is about 25 US dollars then you can have all kinda surgery for free. Most peoples pay 20 to 25% in income tax and that cover it all hospitales free scholls and every thing so i say it is nice. We have private too the health ting but are usually on use by companyes to get the worker back to work as soon as possibe becaus the ordenary system it have wating times for care so the private as in the US then next week in the ordnarey come back in 2 months as you know! But as you know the private surgery and such is payed by the goverment too it is free choise to use private or the goverment one for the pasient! * It is called free choice for treathment so i can choice wher i wanna go! This go for Norway, Sweden , Denmark and Finland or Iceland we have the same things and if i get sick in Sweden as Norwegian it dosent matter it cost nothing for me as pasient! :) That is why Scandinavia are great we have lived together in ages and we trust each other that's why it is so nice and easy here!

[@-_James_-]

I still find paying to see the doctor in Norway strange. :) In the UK you only pay for prescriptions, and even those used to be free when I was growing up.

[@VadymVus]

Дякую. Цікаво

[@oddrunhaland]

If you like the Norwegian Healthcare System you should try the British - many times better and completely free. You don't have to pay for consultations with the GP and often you don't pay for medications either. I, for instance, don't pay for medication because I am over 60. You don't pay for A&E or hospital care, not for X-rays and bandages as you do in Norway. I am Norwegian and I live partly in the UK and partly in Norway but when I need an operation - I am due for a hip replacement now, I know where to go and it is not Norway.

[@lpdude2005]

Not many people will agree with you on that - but you can believe. The equipment in Norwegian hospitals surpasses most of what you find in the UK - because here everything is mostly new . The same also applies to the hospital itself - most are fully digital and have contact from the operating room to some of the world's best surgeons through G5 if something is difficult or unknown problems. The first transatlantic operations in the world were carried out between Norway and the US. If you are in hospital, you also never pay anything in Norway - not even for transport or recreation. The biggest bill you can get is for day surgery £27 - but everything is free after you've paid NOK. 2921 throughout the year. You will never receive bills over £40. You also never pay for X-rays after the limit has been reached. X-ray costs £38. If you travel to the UK for these sums, I just have to laugh.

[@Rolf-farmedfacts-supervisor]

@@lpdude2005 You are very right, the digital userfriendly equipment thats standard on most MD offices here isnt found in other places in the UK. The Norw.coverage and professionalism ridicules the UK's in every way.

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

@@lpdude2005 Rubbish figures, except the free card limit, where you are correct. I had day surgery at Nordlandssykehuset in Bodø 5-6 weeks ago, removing a growing mole/birthmark on my back. I paid 450 NOK (currently £38,65), so where did you get that max £27 from? Also, I had MR 2 years ago, and paid 720 NOK, which is £61,86 - I'm not a math professor, but I'm pretty sure that too is more than your claims of £38 and £40... Not an issue for me, though, since both are cheap, imo, and counted towards the free card limit, which I got 2 years ago, and will this year too. O.H.: In Norway, NO ONE pays if they have a free card, which is NOT restricted to age - the only age limit I am aware of, is that for children under 16, there is NEVER anything to pay. So "worst case scenario" is paying 2921 NOK / £251 per year. If that makes Norway so bad, please stay in the UK and do us a favour: never come back.

[@dr.caride920]

There is no free. You pay for it with your taxes. Norwegians have decided that they will pay these taxes in return for the peace of mind of knowing they will not be bankrupted for having the audacity of getting sick.

[@dranthonyg]

"the audacity of getting sick" 😂😂😂I absolutely love it! Well said!

[@arnehornsletten4082]

This is not truth. 1800 older people dead in hunger in 2020 in nurse hospital. Onnly medisin. And Long waiting for a diagnose many years. And many dead before they dead before diagnose. And people go from hospital to hospital all over all norway before they got Even a diagnose. And many years with pain. And dead And lot of pain. I can Write a book about how bad Norway hospital are And doctor.

[@dranthonyg]

That is shocking! I'd love to get some references to any public documentation around this if you can provide it.

[@arnehornsletten4082]

@@dranthonyg this is truth l write. I Am 69 years old and lot in and out hospital and doctor. Now diagnose. But i go privat in Norway and another country hospital. Got diagnose on one time. And got help. I have familie and frends dead they got not diagnose. They got not help. Nrk say that in 2021 on tv 1800 older people dead hunger on nurse home. Only tabletts they got. And i have had so many bad doctor in my life. And finaly l got one doctor take care of me after 64 years. They another doctor give me wrong tabletts and not help and not diagnose. I can tell you many stories about Norway healt care. I had Bee in work to Day if l got help in time. This Cost me lot of money go another country help and privat hospital in Norway. My doctor have all this in paper.

[@generalshepherd457]

Basically if you are above 60 they ration your healthcare. When you are so old to get in a nursing home it is a horror show.

[@arnehornsletten4082]

Its werry dificult Come in nursing home in Norway. I have privat help home. And have build my house so l can live here rest of my life. Its not finish. I do all self. Take time. Use my pension money. And litle by litle. I not want go nursing home. I have see lot of them. Horrible places. Nurse have not time for the older people in nursing home. And doctor give only tabletts to the older people. You can take around And see self.

[@TullaRask]

Nursing homes are the local city council responsibility, as many other things. It sometimes pays to live in Oslo. The real thing though is spoiled Norwegians not being aware how lucky they are. You get everything close to free, but it's still not good enough. People with one feather, makes it a hen before you know it.

[@worldlover6073]

IN TERMS OF COST .YES NORWAY MIGHT BE GOOD.THATS WHY IT MIGHT HAVE TERMED AS BEST HEALTH SYSTEM BY SIME PEOPLE.IN FACT THE SERVICE IS EXTREMELY BAD.WAITING LIST IS TOO LONG.DOCTORS AND HEALTH WORKERS ARE EXTREMELY CARELESS AS THEY DONT HAVE TO TAKE ANY RESPONSIBILTY IF PATIENTS DIE OR OTHER INJURIES DURING TREATMENT.FOR ME THE BEST HEALTH CARE IS PROVIDING GOOD HEALTH SERVICE AT THE RIGHT TIME TO THENPATIENT TO PREVENT SUFFERING OF THE PATIENT AND TO PREVENT THE PROBLEM ESCALATION.MAKING PATIENTS SUFFER NOT TREATING AT RIGHT TIME AND CREATING MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEM OUT OF MINOR HEALTH PROBLEM CANT BE GOOD HEALTH SYSTEM.ONLY BECAUSE OF COST EFFECTIVENESS ONE CANT BE TERMED AS BEST HEALTH SYSTEM WHEN PROFESSIONALISM AND EXPERTISE IS LAGGING PUTTING PATIENTS IN TRAUMA FOR FEE CHARGED WITHIN 300 EURO.

[@dranthonyg]

Interesting! Ty for sharing!

[@vanessaw5409]

Toobad the doctors don't help.

[@dranthonyg]

Why do you think that?

[@vanessaw5409]

@@dranthonyg because I live in Norway and have been to alot of useless doctors?

[@dranthonyg]

@@vanessaw5409 I hear you. That really sucks. 😔

[@vanessaw5409]

@@dranthonyg it very much does, especially when others tell me about the great help they recieve 🤷‍♀️

[@dranthonyg]

@@vanessaw5409 ughhhh I'm so sorry. ty you for sharing this, it helps me get a fuller picture

[@overit.4013]

Eeeeh... No. Sincerly yours- Norwegian from Trondheim.

[@dranthonyg]

Do you have an experience you'd like to share?

[@Shamansdurx]

A Hole they also have a Royal witch docto call the shaman!

[@dranthonyg]

Do they???? That's hilarious

[@johnnymartinjohansen]

That taxi ride home should be almost free too, apart from a deductible of up to 159 NOK you have to pay, regardless how far it was, unless you have a "free card". If you paid the full price for the ride, you only have to log into helsenorge.no to register it, then they repay everything apart for those 159 NOK. You may need to send in a copy of the receipt, though - not sure. NAV can help you with this if there are problems. Must be done within 6 months, though. We live 135 km (84 miles) from nearest hospital, and my 76 years old mother had to go there a few times this year. She has gotten a taxi every time, since bus schedules are terrible. She doesn't even pay that 159 NOK anymore, since she have passed the limit for the "free card", which everyone gets after having paid at least 2921 NOK in various deductables within the same calendar year. With a "free card", prescription meds, doctor visits, transport, different kinds of aids, etc, are COMPLETELY FREE. Btw, if you drive by yourself to doctor/hospital/psychiatric/etc, and the distance is over 10km, you really should register it. If you don't have a "free card", you won't get any payouts if the ride is less than around 60 km, because that the rate per km won't pass the deductable of 159 NOK each way. BUT: it will count towards the "free card" limit, and if you have the card, you will get everything repaid with no deductables at all. I had a work accident 3 years ago, which caused permanent health problems for the rest of my life, leaving me unable to do most stuff. Living 62km from nearest doctor, and 135km from nearest hospital, and having to visit both multiple times per year, have taught me "everything" about these systems. I'm so lucky to live in a country that takes care of me in my unfortunate situation. So glad I don't live in the US, where I would probably lose my house to pay all those fees.

[@dranthonyg]

Omg this is absolutely wonderful!!! ☺️☺️☺️ You are amazing!