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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.

I love when people use a small country relative to our own and then ask why we can’t do that here. It’s literally a matter of scale. For starters we are a massive country geographically. Secondly, we have a massive population here. Thirdly, we have a disastrous open border that allows the entire globe to flood our nation and with it our medical resources at virtually zero cost to those here illegally… all of that as a whole makes it impossible to properly fund and manage at any level.. you need to train an army of doctors and nurses which can’t happen due to the current structure and costs of getting into med school… the other issue is the lack of self control by the average citizen leeches who if you start handing out shite for free will flood the system for medical care for no other reason than it’s free.

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Posted by wackatimesthree

Member since Oct 2019

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Posted on 4/5/24 at 11:47 am to Blizzard of Chizz

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I love when people use a small country relative to our own and then ask why we can’t do that here.

The biggest reasons are:

1. We spend massive amounts of money to protect tiny countries like that militarily.

They spend a whopping 1.4% of GDP on their military. Almost one-tenth of what we spend.

Basically, we protect them on our dime, and that goes for most countries we are compared to like this.

2. We also are responsible for over 90% of medical R&D in the world. And the reason we are is because we have a for-profit system. Take that away and the R&D stops. Not just for us, but for the whole world.

So yeah, when our taxpayers are paying for that much military protection AND medical R&D for so much of the rest of the world, they can afford a lot of stuff we can't.

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Posted by TN Tygah

Member since Nov 2023

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Posted on 4/5/24 at 11:58 am to Blizzard of Chizz

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I love when people use a small country relative to our own and then ask why we can’t do that here

Hey genius, I didn’t say anything about here. Someone said “that’s socialized medicine for ya” and I said they do it well in Europe. All of Scandinavia has about 27 million people. All countries are like this. And your rant about the border has nothing to do with this conversation. Big surprise, we can’t do shite here. I’m aware. But our privatized healthcare system is a joke too.

People who make shite up about socialized medicine in Europe being inferior are typically fat dudes from the south who never left the country and pronounce the word athlete with three syllables.

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