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It's culture. In the Netherlands a trauma heli will come for a homeless person or even a drunk British tourist.

America can afford healthcare it simply chooses not to.

It's a lot easier to cover a country the size of Norway with heli trauma than the United States. So let's not pretend that is even an Apples to Apples comparison.

Also, culture and health makes a big difference. Also, the number of people living off the government fully vs. taxpayers makes a difference.

The US is vastly richer than Norway, and benefits from economies of scale.

You’re right it’s not apples to apples at all.

The us chooses not to because the ruling class are barbaric and would make less money.

Well Norway was massively richer per capita than the US until quite recently and still currently is by a slight margin.

While I appreciate the excuse making, the fact is the US is by far and away the richest country to have ever existed, and the average citizen has a much lower quality of life than those in much poorer countries.

It’s a disgrace. Anything else you say is a weak excuse.

Are you not confusing per capita wealth/income with something else?

Russia is also technically 5x richer than Norway in that sense. Of course they have 25x more people..

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