You are often also charged fees at the doctors office or even emergency care. And places like Sweden have private health insurance so you domt have to stay in the “free” broken system with years of waiting before getting to a specialist. I always cringe when nordics make fun of the US healthcare system. Ours is just as expensive and horribly broken. You may not get a 20k dollar bill for immediate care. You are instead set on a 5-14 year (not a typo ) waiting list.

Sweden is a capitalist country with socialist taxes.