The Nordic Model of Healthcare

Rationalize. Not support.

“Providing” is not “ethical”.

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I didn’t say anything about racism in my post. One of Sneaky’s arguments is that our outcomes are worse than other countries because they are “lily-white” and “homogeneous” and we are not.

We can see your post.

It’s not hard to make everybody happy when everybody is the same.

I never said “lily-white”, that’s your term. It’s not race, it’s culture.

And yet several countries like Switzerland, Sweden, Norway, Australia, Canada, Austria, the UK, Spain, Germany, France and the Netherlands all have a greater or similar percentage of immigrants in their population as we do.

You’re right, I’m sorry. I was remembering a post [1] that was actually made by Cratic that you quoted and responded to.

  1. Danish welfare state eroding - #25 by WuWei

No, they don’t. Numbers don’t equal culture.

Does Detroit look like Oslo?

Uh, yes, they absolutely do have larger or similar immigration populations than the US. That is a fact.

“Look like”?

Yes it is.

From where? Why is this so hard for you.

Yes, look like.

So homogenous:

Total immigrant population 1877050
Yugoslavia 172308
Syria 172248
Finland 150877
Iraq 140830
Poland 91180
Iran 74096
Somalia 66369
Germany 50863
Turkey 48028
Afghanistan 43991
Norway 42028
Thailand 41240
Denmark 40563
Eritrea 39081
China 31333
India 29673
Romania 29546
Chile 27996
United Kingdom 27658
Lebanon 27487
United States 20990
Russia 20930
Ethiopia 19358
Vietnam 18713
Greece 18142
Hungary 16792
Pakistan 13970
Philippines 13755
Lithuania 13659

Again, is this hard for you? Do you not understand the word “culture”?

Wait, you think all the people from the countries listed have the same “culture”?

No, but I know what the word means. Do you?

I have no idea what your little chart is supposed to show.

It shows that Sweden has a larger portion of their population as immigrants and they are hardly “homogenous.”

Culture. Culture.

They. Don’t. Have. A. Homogeneous. Culture.

Yes, they do.

How is it not? It’s not necessarily truth, so it’s contingent upon empirical investigation (e.g., total healthcare costs under UHC > total healthcare costs under not-UHC). Or are you saying something else?

And they all live in Stockholm and Malmo.