Finland Socialist Government Collapsed

POSTED BY: JEWELSTAITEFAN
UPDATED: Thursday, August 29, 2019 23:05
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JEWELSTAITEFAN

Thursday, August 29, 2019 3:35 AM

I guess I wasn't paying attention. Was this already covered here?

https://www.armstrongeconomics.com/world-news/pension-crisis/finland-g
overnment-collapses-why-the-media-is-silent/

https://www.politico.eu/article/finlands-government-collapses-over-fai
led-health-care-reform/

https://legalinsurrection.com/2019/03/finland-government-collapses-ove
r-universal-health-care-costs-bernie2020-hardest-hit/

https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2019-03-12/finlands-government-collapse
d-under-weight-socialized-healthcare

https://www.wsj.com/articles/finlands-government-collapses-weeks-befor
e-general-election-11552037078

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/03/08/finlands-government-resigns-after-heal
thcare-reform-fails.html

https://freebeacon.com/politics/finnish-government-collapses-due-to-ri
sing-cost-of-universal-health-care/

Obviously, we need to follow their example. AOC.

6IXSTRINGJACK

Thursday, August 29, 2019 5:15 AM

But... But... It worked out so well for Venezuela!

Do Right, Be Right. :)

1KIKI

Thursday, August 29, 2019 11:05 PM

Finland's per capita healthcare costs are roughly half that of the US. We'd be damn lucky to have Finland's problems.

https://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/Country-Note-FINLAND-OECD-Heal
th-Statistics-2015.pdf

This https://www.politico.eu/article/finlands-government-collapses-over-fai
led-health-care-reform/ article was far less obviously biased.

Finland has not collapsed. It's economy has not collapsed. The health care system has not collapsed.

The problems as outlined were - 1) existing decentralization, which led to disparities between areas in health care and 2) the failure of the government to bring both sides of the political spectrum onto the same page to centralize the health system.

FWIW Canada's healthcare went through a similar process of centralization in the 70's; resulting in a system of universal, lifetime, and free (no out of pocket) healthcare that costs roughly half per capita as the US's.

But Finland has some particular things that affect population health, and those are 1) population genetics, 2) heart disease (due to the traditional Finnish diet), and 3) alcohol.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_in_Finland