re: Doctors Will Euthanize Healthy 28-Year-Old Woman Just Because She’s Autistic

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BUT...that's what you get with socialized medicine.

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I’ve worked overseas quite a bit. Mostly in Scandinavia. They pay out the arse in taxes for it, but the claim that socialized medicine isn’t good is wrong. I had to extend a work trip in Denmark for a month, and needed medication, my US doctor couldn’t prescribe it abroad. I asked a Danish friend what to do, she texted her doctor (yes, texted) and the doctor saw me the next day, less than 24 hours later, I showed her my prescription, she wrote out a new one, and by the time I walked across the street to the pharmacy the medication was ready, and I paid $15. This medication would’ve cost me $500 without insurance and I would’ve had to wait at least a day for them to fill it. It was infinitely easier than getting it in the US, and that’s WITH my PCP, health insurance, and citizenship.

I have no interest in paying their 61% income tax, 25% sales tax and 200% car tax, but socialized medicine over there is not the disaster that people paint it out to be.