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0 pointsbedobi5y ago0 comments

Finland is very much Scandinavia, but that's a complete side note.

The point is, it's absolutely not true that health care in Finland or the rest of Scandinavia is anywhere near as good as popularly imagined by Americans or even by many Scandinavians themselves. Anyone who moves to Scandinavia thinking the high taxes will give complete access to instant top notch treatment in case of cancer or many other conditions will have been straight up misled and deceived.

Pointing that out doesn't imply thinking US health care is preferable or better - I certainly don't.

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antris5y ago

> Anyone who moves to Scandinavia thinking the high taxes will give complete access to instant top notch treatment in case of cancer or many other conditions will have been straight up misled and deceived

If you want top notch anything, it's pretty obvious that the privilege is accessible only to billionaires. There's no roof on how much money you can spend on any service. The point of the public health care system is that a basic level of care is guaranteed to everyone, not to provide the most opulent service that money can buy.

vianneychevalie5y ago

Finland is not a part of Scandinavia [0]. It has linguistic, geographic, ethnic and historic differences.

[0] https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/is-finland-part-of-scand...

Moru5y ago

It's a bit messier than that though. When spoken in English, Finland is often included in the term. However everyone here knows it's not realy. We instead use "Nordic countries" to include Finland and Greenland.

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