He just has different criteria for success than you do. In Sweden, I’m sure the political elite is doing splendidly. Obama wants to repeat that success, maybe improve upon it.
Usually Americans get criticized by intellectual types because we are unaware of what is going on in the rest of the world, and hence unable to learn from their experience. Here is an instance where all of the global experience is saying DO NOT nationalize your health care, and our intellectual class is rejecting that lesson on delivery.
I assume that most Republicans and Conservatives haven’t read that much about the Swedish system. It’s actually a system that might work here: The Federal government provides minimum standards, and the county councils (sort of like our states) actually take care of getting it done.
I’m surprised no one’s suggested a hybrid federal/state solution.
At least it’s better than the Feds, yeah?
Living for years here and in Gothenburg, Sweden (and having had a child in Sweden) I agree wholeheartedly with the assessments in the article.
If the pregnancy and birthing process was any indication, we are in for a real disappointment here in this country.
Minimal care is the order of the day.
We only saw a medical doctor ONE time through 9 months of pregnancy and the birth of our son. Not out of our choice, that’s just the way it is there.
With a metro of about 1 million people, there are only two hospitals that have birthing centers.
After my wife’s water broke, we called our first choice of the two hospitals to make our “reservation.” They said they were booked up and to call the other one. We called it and they too were “booked up.” They suggested we call a couple other hospitals in Boros or Helsingborg, both more than an hour and a half drive.
We called the first one back and said we’re coming over. They were not happy. They put us in a waiting room where my wife had our son. Nothing in the room but a midwife, a fetal heart monitor they sat in a chair, and nitrous oxide.
I later asked if it was a peak time for births and they said “no, just about average.”
Evidence EVERYWHERE in the world shows Obama’s plans will fail, yet he continues down that same path anyway. The man is not smart.”
Your last sentence rebuts your first.
It’s not Obama’s plan and it’s not about healthcare.
If the plan succeeds it, it succeeds, if the plan fails, it succeeds.