Chet Edwards might be a Democrat, but I guess many Republicans would agree with him this far;
“One thing is clear. These American stories require uniquely American solutions.”
However, a lot of American Liberals, at least seemingly, fail to understand how different the US is from France, Britain, Sweden, Canada etc. It is a matter of economic, cultural, demographic as well as political structures. Just to name a few ones.
They also fail to understand that from an American aspect, many European health care systems definitely offer less.
It's not a complete lie that a nation like my country, Sweden, boasts a high quality health care system. Neither is it a lie that it in many ways is rather cost efficient.
However, compared to its American counterpart, the Swedish health care system involves
- more of waiting lists
- less of personal choice
Many Swedes (although not a majority) chose to go to a private clinic instead. By doing so they get to pay twice; firstly, for the health care they receive from the private clinic and secondly (being tax payers), for the health care they do NOT receive from the government.
Sweden and the US could gain from studying each other, but unwisely trying to implement different solutions from the other society on home soil, like they were different dishes on a Smörgåsbord/Smorgasbord, is likely to fail.
I get the feeling that American Liberals who praise most aspects of Sweden don't understand much about either Sweden or America.
Most things that are good about Sweden stem from Lutheran work ethics and successful multinationals, while most things that are bad are related to ideologies closely related to their believes.
Regardless of this and regardless of Obama, I hope the best for the American population which indeed are among the closest friends and allies we Swedes have in this insane world we all live in.
we need to get rid of this faux conservative douche bag democrat.
He's been riding the "I'm saving the Waco VA" from the evil bureaucrats since I've been here. GAWD! I can't take it.
The FIRST VOTE he made after the last election was to CUT FUNDING for the troops in Iraq. He's gonna run from that vote.
He was getting wet just thinking about possible being the VP for Obama... now he's going to want everyone to forget that...
He's a Pelosi stooge that is conservative in our district then goes to Washington and just bends over and gets it from Pelosi and the rest of the liberals.
Yeah. He's going to vote for the "Co-ops" and save us. He's going down this year. We have got to find a conservative Republican that is able to run from this district. It almost seems that somebody in the local Republican Party is paid off to get douche bags or people with no experience to run in order to let this bag of worms represent us.
The reason he's on the listening tour is cause the people in our area went to his office and posted a petition demanding he come out to play. He is representing a conservative district and has been allowed to slide for to long.
