Happy Birthday Lori!

Today is the misses birthday, whoo hoo! I have 3 conference calls but Lori is taking the day off. I think she’s going to Denver to see her friend at her old office. She should be back by 2pm.

Yesterday I had the final check-up to make sure my new teeth are how I like them. Next up is the first or maybe final fitting. After that I had a check-up with the cardiologist and it turns out I’m healthy as a horse or whatever the saying is, knock on wood. He told me that I make his job easy and said my pulse is jumping out of my feet and ankles which apparently they check to see how well your heart is pumping blood. Anyhow that’s good news.

It was warm yesterday meaning everyone’s allergies are kicking in. All of us, although Ty not as bad, have stuffy noses. Jag and I just went to the gym to lift some weights and are now back and making a protein shake for breakfast. The kids have assesment tests this week which I think are a waste of time but it is what it is. Not sure what we’re doing tonight but we’ll let you know tomorrow.

Now I could go on about Trump and Hillary but I won’t. Instead though, and this is fair game as it affects all of us, check out the article about a Country that had socialized medicine and is now going back to privatized care, hmm.

Sweden’s Trademark Universal Healthcare On Its Deathbed

by CHRIS JOHNCOX

When leftists fantasize about Northern Europe, the first thing they think of is the region’s enormous public spending and its overly generous welfare state. However, as with all dreams, the time is coming to wake up. Along with several other social services, Sweden’s iconic “free” healthcare system’s days are numbered.

Sweden’s insurance trade industry organization, Svensk Försäkring reports:

The number of private health care insurance policies has increased in recent years. In 2011 about 440,000 people had private health care insurance. Most of these people have their policy paid by their employer.

Additionally, The Local recently reported that nearly “One in ten Swedes now has private health insurance,” with rising policy demand extending to half a million Swedes and growing throughout the 9.5 million living in the country.

From The Local:

“It’s quicker to get a colleague back to work if you have an operation in two weeks’ time rather than having to wait for a year,” privately insured Anna Norlander told Sveriges Radio on Friday. “It’s terrible that I, as a young person, don’t feel I can trust the health care system to take care of me.”

The Local also reminds us that the Achilles heel of all socialist systems plagues the Swedish medical system, stating:

“Visitors are sometimes surprised to learn about year-long waiting times for cancer patients.”

This is an unfortunate reality in an industry where suppliers cannot predict market prices for a service and therefore must ration, causing poor service and over-inflated demand. The only logical conclusion that one could derive from this situation is that demand for supplemental private insurance skyrockets because of the inadequate government healthcare system.

In the 1970s, Sweden began to replace its market economy with a socialist planned one. When that proved unaffordable in the 90s, Sweden then began to re-privatize industries and let economic laws of laissez faire capitalism begin to take root once more. Now, Sweden’s public spending has decreased nearly 20% in the last 20 years and its taxes are lower than France, Belgium, and Denmark.

That’s not to say Sweden still doesn’t have a long way to go in restoring its social atmosphere. Sweden is still in many ways a cultural-Marxist hellscape and its restriction on owning firearms or other tools for self defense has earned it the title of “rape capital of the west.”

In any case, it was only a matter of time before the lies of left-wing politicians and the usual failures of socialist economic policies caused people to embrace the free market and entrepreneurship, hopefully this time for good.

People, Capitalism and Free Markets are not dirty words! Wake up and God Bless