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Finland is not Scandinavia and its systems are not necessarily comparable. You have shortcomings in any healthcare system, but I'd take this and all its flaws i

Finland is not Scandinavia and its systems are not necessarily comparable. You have shortcomings in any healthcare system, but I'd take this and all its flaws in a heartbeat over the absolute shitshow that is the US healthcare system.

bedobi 6y ago
Finland is very much Scandinavia, but that's a complete side note. The point is, it's absolutely not true that health care in Finland or the rest of Scandinavia is anywhere near as good as popularly imagined by Americans or even by many Scandinavians themselves. Anyone who moves to Scandinavia thinking the high taxes will give complete access to instant top notch treatment in case of cancer or many other conditions will have been straight up misled and deceived. Pointing that out doesn't imply thinking US health care is preferable or better - I certainly don't.
- antris 6y ago
  > Anyone who moves to Scandinavia thinking the high taxes will give complete access to instant top notch treatment in case of cancer or many other conditions will have been straight up misled and deceived If you want top notch anything, it's pretty obvious that the privilege is accessible only to billionaires. There's no roof on how much money you can spend on any service. The point of the public health care system is that a basic level of care is guaranteed to everyone, not to provide the most opulent service that money can buy.
- vianneychevalie 6y ago
  Finland is not a part of Scandinavia [0]. It has linguistic, geographic, ethnic and historic differences. [0] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/is-finland-part-of-scandinavia.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/is-finland-part-of-scand...
  - Moru 6y ago
    It's a bit messier than that though. When spoken in English, Finland is often included in the term. However everyone here knows it's not realy. We instead use "Nordic countries" to include Finland and Greenland.
fogihujy 6y ago
While not a part of the geographic area called Scandinavia, Finland is very much a Nordic country. The healthcare system here is pretty comparable to the other Nordic countries, although there are some differences. The quality of care depends a lot on your particular health issues and the place you live, though.

bedobi 6y ago

Finland is very much Scandinavia, but that's a complete side note. The point is, it's absolutely not true that health care in Finland or the rest of Scandinavia is anywhere near as good as popularly imagined by Americans or even by many Scandinavians themselves. Anyone who moves to Scandinavia thinking the high taxes will give complete access to instant top notch treatment in case of cancer or many other conditions will have been straight up misled and deceived. Pointing that out doesn't imply thinking US health care is preferable or better - I certainly don't.

antris 6y ago
> Anyone who moves to Scandinavia thinking the high taxes will give complete access to instant top notch treatment in case of cancer or many other conditions will have been straight up misled and deceived If you want top notch anything, it's pretty obvious that the privilege is accessible only to billionaires. There's no roof on how much money you can spend on any service. The point of the public health care system is that a basic level of care is guaranteed to everyone, not to provide the most opulent service that money can buy.
vianneychevalie 6y ago
Finland is not a part of Scandinavia [0]. It has linguistic, geographic, ethnic and historic differences. [0] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/is-finland-part-of-scandinavia.html https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/is-finland-part-of-scand...
- Moru 6y ago
  It's a bit messier than that though. When spoken in English, Finland is often included in the term. However everyone here knows it's not realy. We instead use "Nordic countries" to include Finland and Greenland.

fogihujy 6y ago

While not a part of the geographic area called Scandinavia, Finland is very much a Nordic country. The healthcare system here is pretty comparable to the other Nordic countries, although there are some differences. The quality of care depends a lot on your particular health issues and the place you live, though.