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Unless I'm mistaken, Denmark also has socialized healthcare, does it not? I know this drum gets beaten to death on forums of all kinds, including this one, so p

Unless I'm mistaken, Denmark also has socialized healthcare, does it not? I know this drum gets beaten to death on forums of all kinds, including this one, so pardon me for banging it once again. Tying one's health coverage (in a meaningful way) to one's job is just shameful for any type of developed nation, and to do so during a pandemic with lock down rules, doubly so. I know people who had trouble getting certain diabetic supplies covered on their state insurance when they were laid off during the lock down, in one of the richest nations of the world. I'm not sure people are even stressed about vacations. I think people are so stressed that if they lose their jobs, they lose their healthcare and since so many people have so little savings they face homelessness (our school system doesn't do a very good job of teaching economics for the individual - my parents taught me), They're stressed because their hormones are out of whack because for so many our diet and exercise routines are horrible (though, some of that could be blamed on long commutes). It's a symphony of issues that's causing stress derived from work that isn't the work itself, or time away from it =(

m_ke 5y ago
Most countries have universal healthcare (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universal_Healthcare_by_Country_20191229.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universal_Healthcare...)
jobu 5y ago
It's a combination of weak social safety net and people living paycheck-to-paycheck (or worse). Roughly 1/3 of US households have a hard time covering monthly expenses, and another ~1/3 are a paycheck away from disaster. If you lose a job in the US, you lose your healthcare (COBRA is way to expensive to be an option). Minimal housing protections in most states means you're one missed payment away from homelessness. Food banks are critically short-staffed and under-stocked across the US. Jobless benefits can take weeks or months to receive and even then they're usually well below what a person needs to survive. There was such a stigma against moochers and "welfare queens" in the 80s and 90s that politicians would rather cut funding to all benefits than let one person abuse the system. Florida even spent $178 million on drug tests to save from paying out $60k in welfare because addicts don't deserve to eat for some reason.

m_ke 5y ago

Most countries have universal healthcare (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universal_Healthcare_by_Country_20191229.svg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universal_Healthcare...)

jobu 5y ago

It's a combination of weak social safety net and people living paycheck-to-paycheck (or worse). Roughly 1/3 of US households have a hard time covering monthly expenses, and another ~1/3 are a paycheck away from disaster. If you lose a job in the US, you lose your healthcare (COBRA is way to expensive to be an option). Minimal housing protections in most states means you're one missed payment away from homelessness. Food banks are critically short-staffed and under-stocked across the US. Jobless benefits can take weeks or months to receive and even then they're usually well below what a person needs to survive. There was such a stigma against moochers and "welfare queens" in the 80s and 90s that politicians would rather cut funding to all benefits than let one person abuse the system. Florida even spent $178 million on drug tests to save from paying out $60k in welfare because addicts don't deserve to eat for some reason.