Meh , holiday time in America really just varies from employer to employer . I get 126 hours of paid vacation time a year , which equals out to roughly 3 weeks , while my wife on the other hand gets 12 hours a year . It sucks but if a company wants to be cheap then they are going to be cheap . As for health care our biggest problem is really the fact that American health institutions are mostly privatized . So if a doctor wants to charge $ 200 and hour with a 2 hour minimum charge then they can . With Obama Care we now have mandated health care which doesn ' t really help to much . The idea was to force employers to give all their employees a health care option , or if not they pay a yearly fee to the government . Problem with that is that it meant no one had an excuse to not have health insurance which means we are all required to have it now . However more often then not the fees a company has to pay at the end of the year for not offering health care is actually way cheaper than paying for an employee health care plan . On top of that since health insurance itself if privatized our insurance company can set ridiculously high deductibles so that our medical bill has to total say $ 5000 . So lets say you break and arm and have to go have it set and casted . However a broken arm would probably cost you between $ 25003000 dollars , so you wont meet your deductible . Now insurance will still pay a portion but it wont be much , most likely $ 500 or so , which means your still stuck paying $ 2000 dollars or so out of pocket . The whole system is completely fucked and really needs to be overhauled . But good old capitalism means that were never going to reform it like it should be . Health care will always stay incredibly over priced , doctors will always line their pockets with obscene amounts of money , and the common man will always end up paying a minor medical bill off for 8 months plus interest .