W<\/span>hen leftists fantasize about Northern Europe, the first thing they think of is the region\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0enormous public spending and its overly generous welfare state. However, as with\u00c2\u00a0all dreams, the time is coming to wake up. Along with several other social services, Sweden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s iconic \u00e2\u20ac\u0153free\u00e2\u20ac\u009d healthcare system\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s days are numbered.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Sweden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s insurance trade industry organization, Svensk F\u00c3\u00b6rs\u00c3\u00a4kring<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0reports:<\/p>\n 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n <\/p>\n Additionally,\u00c2\u00a0The Local<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0<\/em>recently reported that nearly \u00e2\u20ac\u0153One in ten Swedes now has private health insurance,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d with rising\u00c2\u00a0policy demand extending to half a million Swedes and growing throughout the 9.5 million living in the country.<\/p>\n From\u00c2\u00a0The Local<\/a>:<\/em><\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s quicker to get a colleague back to work if you have an operation in two weeks\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 time rather than having to wait for a year,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d privately insured Anna Norlander told Sveriges Radio on Friday. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s terrible that I, as a young person, don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel I can trust the health care system to take care of me.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n The Local<\/em> also reminds<\/a> us that the Achilles heel of all socialist systems plagues the Swedish medical system, stating:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Visitors are sometimes surprised to learn about year-long waiting times for cancer patients.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n This is an unfortunate reality in an industry where suppliers cannot predict market prices\u00c2\u00a0for 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.<\/p>\n 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<\/em> capitalism begin to take root once more. Now, Sweden\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s public spending has decreased nearly 20% in the last 20 years and its taxes are lower than France, Belgium, and Denmark.<\/p>\n That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to say Sweden still doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have a long way to go in restoring its social atmosphere. Sweden is still in many ways a cultural-Marxist\u00c2\u00a0hellscape and its restriction on owning firearms or other tools for self defense has earned it the title of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153rape capital of the west.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n People, Capitalism and Free Markets are not dirty words! Wake up and God Bless<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" 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 … Continue reading ![\"SwedenPrivHealth\"](\"http:\/\/thelibertarianrepublic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/SwedenPrivHealth.jpg\")
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