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Something is rotten in Denmark

aociswundumho

aociswundumho

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It's the welfare state, particularly the healthcare system:

Cuts to healthcare services, which include everything from free doctor appointments to cancer treatment, have led to the closure of a quarter of state hospitals in the past decade alone.

A recent survey showed that more than half of Danes don't trust the public health service to offer the right treatment. As a consequence the proportion of the 5.7 million Danish population taking out private health insurance has jumped to 33% from 4% in 2003, according to trade organization Insurance & Pension Denmark.

Danes make welfare a hot election issue as cracks show in Nordic model - Reuters
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One third have private insurance(!) in the land where everything is free.

Keep in mind that this is the country with the kind of population American progressives dream about: virtually all white, they love government, and they have no problem with paying some of the highest taxes in the world.
 
aociswundumho said:
It's the welfare state, particularly the healthcare system:



One third have private insurance(!) in the land where everything is free.

Keep in mind that this is the country with the kind of population American progressives dream about: virtually all white, they love government, and they have no problem with paying some of the highest taxes in the world.
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Gee, I bet Danes wish their country was more like the US.
 
The Europeans always brag about how great their free healthcare system is when Americans are around.

But when they're alone, to each other, they complain about their healthcare.
 
Grand Mal said:
Gee, I bet Danes wish their country was more like the US.
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Regarding healthcare they're really not that much different than us. Note that here in the US we have 75 million people in our public healthcare system.

Anyway, The important point is that public healthcare fails even under ideal circumstances. The fact that 1/3 of Danes have to carry private health insurance constitutes government failure in my book. If it doesn't work in a tiny, homogeneous, collectivist country with the highest taxes in the world, then you can forget about it working in a large, diverse, individualist country where the people hate paying taxes.
 
swing_voter said:
The Europeans always brag about how great their free healthcare system is when Americans are around.

But when they're alone, to each other, they complain about their healthcare.
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We complain about ours also both public and private.
 
aociswundumho said:
Regarding healthcare they're really not that much different than us. Note that here in the US we have 75 million people in our public healthcare system.

Anyway, The important point is that public healthcare fails even under ideal circumstances. The fact that 1/3 of Danes have to carry private health insurance constitutes government failure in my book. If it doesn't work in a tiny, homogeneous, collectivist country with the highest taxes in the world, then you can forget about it working in a large, diverse, individualist country where the people hate paying taxes.
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Healthcare doesn't cover dental, vision, hearing or topees...
 
aociswundumho said:
It's the welfare state, particularly the healthcare system:



One third have private insurance(!) in the land where everything is free.

Keep in mind that this is the country with the kind of population American progressives dream about: virtually all white, they love government, and they have no problem with paying some of the highest taxes in the world.
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The irony of this post is that Danes are complaining about government spending cuts to healthcare. People aren't complaining about the welfare state, they are complaining that it is being cut. Denmark's new prime minister was elected on a promise of increasing spending and reversing the cuts of the prior conservative government. So I guess this is a good example of what happens when you try out "the American way" of less spending on healthcare - people hate it.
 
aociswundumho said:
Regarding healthcare they're really not that much different than us. Note that here in the US we have 75 million people in our public healthcare system.

Anyway, The important point is that public healthcare fails even under ideal circumstances. The fact that 1/3 of Danes have to carry private health insurance constitutes government failure in my book. If it doesn't work in a tiny, homogeneous, collectivist country with the highest taxes in the world, then you can forget about it working in a large, diverse, individualist country where the people hate paying taxes.
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That statistic probably also includes people who pay special insurance, which is handled largely by the private sector. Such insurance may cover certain sports injuries, severe dental injuries (in particular), etc. and it is generally extremely cheap, costing less than $100/year.

Children are generally covered by their parents' insurance, so they don't count towards the statistic.
 
The could fund the gap by putting a sin tax on those addictive butter cookies.
 
Yep, cutting pubic healthcare turns out to be a bad idea.
 
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