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> Ironically Sweden has moved in the past 20 years from a fully public healthcare system to a mixed public/private model (similar in many ways to a voucher approach where the customer picks a provider).

So the healthcare quality could be because of privatized healthcare ?

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Yes, possibly! And on the flip side, Sweden's recent drops in European healthcare quality rankings could be due to advanced privatization too. 1980-2015 is too long a period to easily draw any single conclusion.

The larger point I'm trying to make is that Sweden is nothing like its Breitbart caricature. It's a very competitive free market economy with a hybrid approach to most social services. Socialism in the early 20th century sense doesn't describe 21st century Sweden.

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