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This is a good point but you really need to have a comparison when you say your healthcare is crumbling. Are you talking about specialized care? I think health

This is a good point but you really need to have a comparison when you say your healthcare is crumbling. Are you talking about specialized care? I think healthcare in the US is beyond messed up. In my area which is a large city in the North East US it is very difficult to be able to get into ER because rooms are filled with people who are trying to get non-urgent care. These people have no money, no insurance and their only way to get care is to go to ER. System is rotten to the core. I also did not get your last paragraph are you talking about the US or Denmark? I would be shocked to hear income inequality problem is worse in Denmark.

emptysongglass 3y ago
I'm talking about general and specialist care in the public system. Our private system is pretty good but you either need to pay insurance for it or, if the public wait-list extends beyond 6 months for surgical treatment, our public healthcare will pay for you to be referred to a private hospital. The less said about our mental healthcare the better. > I also did not get your last paragraph are you talking about the US or Denmark? I would be shocked to hear income inequality problem is worse in Denmark. I was shocked too when I first heard it but live here long enough and it's very obvious. Income inequality has increased over the last thirty years with a Gini coefficient of 30 [1] in 2022. [1] https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/arbejde-og-indkomst/indkomst-og-loen/indkomstulighed https://www.dst.dk/en/Statistik/emner/arbejde-og-indkomst/in...
- rsynnott 3y ago
  While it’s a crude metric, the US is 42 on that scale (usually rendered as 0.42), so significantly worse.