@thedivineinfidel : On the healthcare we talked about few days ago:
There is a Brit working in the company where I work. He’s been here for about two years, but only yesterday we had some drinks and talked some more.
His wife had a bump in her breasts. For about three years, she would go numerous times to visit doctors in UK, but they always told her it’s nothing.
First thing they moved here she went to see a Czech doctor. She was on surgery and chemotherapy before she could say “jagsemash”. Turns out it was a tumor. Czech doctors simply didn’t believe her she went to see anyone with degree in medicine in UK and they didn’t find it.
He told me that even though they met some pretty terrible behaving doctors (one told them “if you’re here, you should talk to me in Czech”), there is no doubt in his mind that the health care here is on much higher level than in UK.
He is a lawyer and his wife worked in a bank, so I suppose they also had that private extra insurance you wrote about.