Well, so much for William's call for tinfoil hats, and David's exclamation that Keith couldn't document with credible data just two of the "happier countries" who do all 8 things listed by the "People's Platform." William needs to tip his tinfoil hat to Keith's research. And David only asked for two countries
so Keith gives him at least thirteen that rank ahead of the US
. Oh, and the data is certainly credible.
I think the Canadians are always a bit more understated and perhaps polite when it comes to comparisons between their health care system, which is essentially a socialized, single payer, government administrated plan they ironically call "Medicare". In almost any poll you can find, Canadians are overwhelmingly more satisfied with their health care than Americans are with ours, and you won't find one in a thousand Canadians who want what we have. On the other hand, the Canadian government has to go to great lengths to keep Americans from swamping their system, and draining their pharmacies of prescription medications.
I have a step sister who is administrator of a children's ranch in Arizona that cares for kids who are in state placement. The county hospital in their area, which treated the kids, closed about a year ago, so when she had a horseback riding accident that caused a complicated broken arm, she couldn't afford the follow up surgery at one of the area private hospitals, so she went to one in Mexico. Turns out it was a very clean, well equipped facility, government operated, with a top notch orthopedic surgeon who had a lot of American patients. Most of the patients there were Americans, who sought care there after the county hospital closed, because they could afford it, and they couldn't get in the door without insurance in the other hospitals in the county.
The US could do this, and it could figure out how to do it better than Norway or Sweden.