i am glad your health care system works in your country . the problem is that that does not necessarily mean it would work here . norway is a smaller country , and yes that matters . fewer barbarians at the gate to take advantage of the system but i think that norway has less alcoholics , drug addicts . you would be amazed the frequency of hospitalization and expense for some of these people . the shiftless , people who are nothing but a drag on society . it seems that norway has fewer of these problems . frankly , norway seems cleaner .
Oh the scandinavian countries still have alcholics and people who are nothing but a drag on society by using the system to live a comfortable life, but we all have these extensive social welfare protections to make sure that people who get into a slump are able to get up on their feet again, much easier than what it would be in say the US.
This also extends to healthcare, making it not free, but putting a limit on how much one person is expected to pay on her or his own, before the state will pay the rest of the bill.
This of course costs alot of tax money but it's not like scandinavians are starving on the streets now is it.
I think the US has so many criminals and outcasts by being a country with a big lack of social equality, which feeds hopelessness in the minds of the poorest people and convices them that criminal acts are okay because that's the only way to get ahead in life.
(I so much finnish the stupid book (atlas shrugged) and see if they ever give an answer to that question (who is John Galt), it's getting annoying but so is her views on socialism...)
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