We have this in Norway as well. Not sure about statistics, but I haven’t paid for contraceptions. My wife gets pills covered by the state if we use those, and I get free condoms if we want to use those. There are other options that are covered as well.
At school and other places young people attend you can just go pickup a handful of condoms for free whenever you’d like. There is also a website in which you just order them delivered to your mailbox in a non descriptive white envelope. I have used that service for over 15 years now.
The URL for Norwegians: (gratis = free, kondomer = condoms)
gratiskondomer.no
Of course, tying access to important services like healthcare to employment would be inhumane. You still need a doctor if you are sick, regardless of employment status.
Edit: And contraceptives are a healthcare thing, and is thus covered. Condoms are a seperate service, but covered and made accessible by the state as well.
I ask because US Americans think healthcare in the EU is amazing. Then you realize its illegal not to have healthcare in Germany, and you have to pay for it. Even if you dont have a job.
That is insanely good. In Germany something like this would probably never happen bc some asshole would be like “hurr durr what if a millionaire used the service, my taxpayer euro would be wasted on somebody who doesn’t desperately need it hurr durr we cannot let that happen I would rather not give to a 100 who need it before this unholy injustice happens that would be giving to a single person who doesn’t.”
We have this in Norway as well. Not sure about statistics, but I haven’t paid for contraceptions. My wife gets pills covered by the state if we use those, and I get free condoms if we want to use those. There are other options that are covered as well.
At school and other places young people attend you can just go pickup a handful of condoms for free whenever you’d like. There is also a website in which you just order them delivered to your mailbox in a non descriptive white envelope. I have used that service for over 15 years now.
The URL for Norwegians: (gratis = free, kondomer = condoms) gratiskondomer.no
If you’re unemployed, is healthcare and yhr contraceptives still free?
Of course, tying access to important services like healthcare to employment would be inhumane. You still need a doctor if you are sick, regardless of employment status.
Edit: And contraceptives are a healthcare thing, and is thus covered. Condoms are a seperate service, but covered and made accessible by the state as well.
This is what Germany does.
I ask because US Americans think healthcare in the EU is amazing. Then you realize its illegal not to have healthcare in Germany, and you have to pay for it. Even if you dont have a job.
the costs of health insurance is covered for you during unemployment though
And if you dont quality for unemployment?
Some people choose to be unemployed. The German system doesn’t really allow for that
Of course.
That is insanely good. In Germany something like this would probably never happen bc some asshole would be like “hurr durr what if a millionaire used the service, my taxpayer euro would be wasted on somebody who doesn’t desperately need it hurr durr we cannot let that happen I would rather not give to a 100 who need it before this unholy injustice happens that would be giving to a single person who doesn’t.”
That’s a key component of the thought that stymies progress in the US.