Swede here: Yeah, Sweden tends to be romanticized by the american "progressives". As a swedish "rightist", you end up being in an annoying position. There's a lot of stupid stuff that happens here, for sure.

That said, it seems like the really expensive/complicated healthcare needs gets taken care of in a competent way, "for free" (paid for via the taxes).

My then 73 yo mom had a tumor that was growing behind her left eye-ball being removed, two years ago. Zero complaints about that hole produdure, and the 10+ post-prodedure checks.

I spent a few hours googling the doctor that was going to perform this particular surgery on my mom - I was left with the impression that he was on the international fore-front on this particular procudure. He was doing a bunch of international speaking on the the topic. I saw videos of him lecturing hundreds of surgeons on particulars of this kind of procudure. Quite re-insuring.

(And yeah, my mom ended up being okay after the surgery.)