The Reality of the Danish Fairytale

The US may not be able to import the Danish system, but we can at least admit that medical bankruptcy shouldn't be a thing. A surprise $4,000 bill because the anathesiologist at your surgery wasn't covered by your insurance, as if you had a choice while being wheeled into the OR, really shouldn't be possible if we had a sane system. We don't have to be fine with that. Hearing that Scandinavia works for Scandinavia, or more to the point, it does and it doesn't, is the same as the US. We can look at other systems and compare them to our system and see that some things really aren't working in the US without the other system needing to be 100% perfect with zero downsides.

It's the same thing with China. So what if you can't talk about Tianamen Square? It's not like bringing up January 6th or October 7th is very popular right now. They manage to build infrastructure in ways the US simply can't. There are absolutely problems there too, but those problems don't mean that we can't look at their successes and our failures and wonder if we're coming up short. We should look at their failures and our successes too, but our failures are pretty bad and we need to fix them, regardless of other nations successes and failures.