The US pays more on each person for health care than any nation, but there’s a story here.
I’ve spent six weeks of my life in Denmark and kinda came to observe how health care costs are kept minimum.
In Denmark, gas costs $9.50 a gallon (more or less), so you don’t drive unless necessary, and you tend to live in your town or village.
Roads? Speed limits are are mid-50s on secondary roads and 65 on their interstate. Note, on secondary roads...most are an extra three feet to six feet wider than US roads.
Booze at the grocery? It’s hiked up to a fair degree on taxes. If you want to be an alcoholic in Denmark on hard stuff in Denmark...you need to make big-time money. Beer and wine? Probably ten to twenty percent more than in the US. Caught on a DWI....lost license...no discussion, no negotiation, no pleas.
Drugs? Ten percent of society there might do weed, but you just don’t find cocaine, meth, LSD, or anything much. The taxation on people....usually means they don’t have the money to waste on ‘extras in life’.
Overweight victims waiting to have a heart attack? Go walk around Denmark...it’s hard to find morbidly obese folks. Want to smoke? Better have ample cash on you to avoid a pack of smokes.
Emergency room action in Denmark? Mostly traffic accidents, farm accidents, or heart attacks. But nowhere near the same statistical numbers as the US.
This game we play about cost being silly and outrageous? Well...we won’t change nothing that relates to the cost.
“Go walk around Denmark...it’s hard to find morbidly obese folks.”
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I have never had the pleasure of going to Denmark but I would not be surprised to find that there are many there who would rate obese by the standard height and weight charts we have in this country. I did spend a year at Keflavik, Iceland and there were men there who would rate as obese on those charts but they were mainly muscular types with very strong bodies. I myself am obese by those charts at six four and 250 but people compliment me everywhere I go on how good I look. No one who has seen me thinks I am fat. In fact when I weighed 240, which is still obese by those charts, people used to ask me how I stayed so “skinny”. The chart says that I should weigh no more than 202 maximum, at which weight I look like Ichabod Crane in the old animated version of “Sleepy Hollow”, not just skinny but scrawny.