"Crowd-fund cancer treatment"? I'm not stupid enough to say that never happens - DUpipo, I'm looking at you - but a family member's cancer treatment is being paid by their employer's health plan. The family member did not have to resort to MediCal or Medicare. Also, the whole process from diagnosis through the currently ongoing treatment had delays between each stage of days or weeks, except for the postponement for our recent 2 1/2 week vacation.
Speaking of matters medical, how's Norway's delay times for diagnostic testing? Here in Silicon Valley, it's been 1-2 weeks for MRI scans. Looking at data for 2024,
https://www.statista.com/statistics/282401/density-of-magnetic-resonance-imaging-units-by-country/ , the US is 4th in the world for scanners per capita and close enough to second that the difference is negligible; Japan has the most, not a European country. The chart does not have numbers for Norway, but judging by Scandinavian countries Finland and Denmark, MRI availability in Norway is somewhere between significantly lower and far lower than in the US.
CTI scanners ... this time there is per capita data for Norway, and Norway has much fewer CT scanners than the US. The US is 7th in the world, with Norway 15th, a little bit less than Denmark.
Given Norway's lesser availability of major diagnostic tools, I wonder what the delays for treatments - e.g. chemotherapy infusions or surgery - [i[after[/i] diagnosis delays might be. Some citizens of countries with "free" medical care come to the US for treatments rather than wait out months of possibly critical delays. I wonder how Norwegians fare for delays and for having the financial ability to afford medical tourism.
As for the meme's anti-business :blah, maybe Norway's high taxes hobble Norway's businesses, hurting the businesses in the world marketplace and making Norwegian jobs more scarce than they should be.
