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> More over, propaganda has made them expect worse coverage from any alternatives.

Is it propoganda or lived experience? Everytime someone has come around saying they're going to fix my health insurance for me, it's ended up costing me more for the same service as before.

Come to think of it, I've yet to have an increase in positive experiences concerning my health insurance. Every doctor's visit feels like a new surprise lurking in the dark.

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That's because, in a democracy, the incentives aren't to fix problems, but to create more so that you can continue to 'solve' them forever. This is exasperated by the obvious bribes that get flung around in the form of speech fees, employment after political career, and so on which give politicians, even ones ostensibly out to 'fix' your problem, perverse incentives to do the opposite in favor of a massive corporation.

I have heard that European Healthcare, especially in places like Denmark, is top notch and somehow free of this evil: I would love to know how they achieved this.

It's propaganda. People who have lived experience of the VA system may have complaints, but they're mosquito bites compared to the lived experience of even people with reasonably good insurance who have gotten sick.

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