So EB players and team members , where do you go to school or what is your degree?

[russia almighty]

What do you guys have there ? Subsidized health care ? Or is independent health insurance cheap there ?

[Tellos Athenaios]

What do you guys have there ? Subsidized health care ? Or is independent health insurance cheap there ?

A bit difficult - as with every Dutch Social legislation - anywho:

-People under age are insured through their parent's insurance (usually free, because usually the parents have their insurance through the company they work for, with special arangements etc. etc.);
-Everyone of age (18 or older) is obliged to have a sort of "minimum-insurance" usually students can get a special arangement through their Uni or whatever they attend (Currently some E 85,- a month) ;
-There is the "AWBZ" and similiar legislation which is a way of paying for special healthcare through taxes. Whenever you suddenly find yourself to have acquired some illness that needs extensive medicine to get you cured - you can call upon the AWBZ etc. to pay these costs either in full or for a very large part.
-Whenever you suddenly need to go to the OK the hospital is obliged to treat you even if you're not insured. This is payed for through aforementioned taxes.

So it's basically partially "Free healthcare" and partially insurance work. You can compare it with going to a Uni: you don't pay the Uni in full, but you do pay a fee every year to attend and you do pay for the books.

[Pharnakes]

-There is the "AWBZ"

Is it just me or does this sound like some form of Sweboz unit?b The Auwboz warband - armed with impoted bartixian laser beams, unfortunately, being impoted they are usless and akin to Apelethureoi, only without lethality.


Anyway, I am currently doing my first year at St. Andrews, studying biology with a view to a Msc in behavioural Biology. Also doing Chemistry and Geology.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Not really if you're Dutch; but I can see where you come from so to speak.

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

Algemene Wet Bijzondere Ziektenkosten

Pronounced:

A (as in the French la) W (as way) B (as bay) Z (as set with a z instead of s)

Meaning:

"Common Law (for) Special Costs due to illness"

Mind you, ever thought it funny how retarded half the English vocabulary sounds? As if they are all either country bumpkins with some terrible speech disorder? Or as if they are all trying to speech with a very hot potato in their mouth?