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PotatoLibre@feddit.it 1 week agoYeah, I followed you there.
Honestly, I thought it could be higher. Then compared with US it really depends of how much they earn, and some has a really high salary there.
Counting on the average I guess welfare does better, but I’ve on my side only Tuscany in Italy (which is between the best five), and Stockholm. Coming from Sicily probably I would have rated walfare a bit worse 😕.
mushroomman_toad@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Yeah definitely, the US system is very dysfunctional. A good amount of money simply gets lost in the bureaucracy.
Insurance companies are massive conglomerates that have to negotiate deals with tens of thousands of providers, millions of products, and millions of customers. Every Healthcare provider needs dedicated bureaucrats that can navigate the sea of paperwork. I don’t have the data in front of me, but I believe the US government pays about the same amount of money on healthcare as the Swedish government.
Any difference between what a Swede pays and what an American pays is just pure waste. A wasteland of pointless jobs.
There’s definitely some fuskbolag and dysfunctionalities in the Swedish system, but for the most part, Swedes are not wasting money keeping dozens of massive office towers filled with bureaucrats, and Swedes have a happier life because of it.