No, there's no supply limited medical system here and medicines are comparably cheaper in Sweden.
If you have socialized medical care, then it is supply limited.
In the same way that if the sun is overhead, it's day time. It's a QED situation. I can explain what supply limited means if you don't understand it.
But, the doctors are more restrictive. I'm not sure but i think it's the doctor that decides what medicines and how much a patient gets even in the USA. I read the statistic in a Swedish article, which got the numbers from a book called Artificial Happiness: The Dark Side of the New Happy Class. But you'll find the numbers on the internet if you look. Here's a link: http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/12/news/notes.php
That's interesting, but it's not accurate. In the same way that if an article said 15 percent of the swedish population were female... it's just way off.
Perhaps 5 percent are on anti depressants. And that might not even be the case any more. They were a "fad" at one point and there was wide spread prescription of them to deal with emotional, behavioral, and educational issues. But that's largely been discredited.
So your figures might be right but be about 10 years old. There was a spike in their usage that went away about as quickly as it came through.
The cultural differences in Europe is big, even within many countries. EU has only tied the countries closer on an economic level. For example, Sweden has a lot in common with the other Scandinavian nations, but is very different to Greece. And our governmental system is very different to that of Britain.
The south is different from the midwest, the midwest is different from new england, new england is different from the pacific states, the pacific states are different from Alaska, and Alaska is different from the Island territories.
You either under estimate the amount of diversity in the US or over estimate your own.
No, it is not. There are countries within the union that want more centralised powers but the majority is against it.
Every year you become more closely tied. Perhaps the merge is more slow then I think it is, but it is consistent.
Or maybe we just don't want to go guns blazing around the world. The public opinion in most of the countries are clearly against it. As would the people of the USA have been if the government wouldn't have lied about the reasons for the invasion of Iraq. You know WMD:s and a link between Saddam and Al Qaeda.
Europe was very different before it was weak.
Both europe and Japan decided to go pacifist after WW2 when prior to that point they were anything but.
It is a philosophy born of loss and weakness. Two conditions that will fade with time.
What has that to do with anything? The Norwegian and Swedish culture is almost the same even though we deported Norwegian freedom fighters (terrorists) directly to the Germans during the WW2. And, well, the enemies you have right now you have created yourself.
Irrelevant. Modern times please. In WW2 Japan was our bitter enemy and today they are close allies.
You can't reference things that happened in WW2, it's old history now. The world has changed too much since.
No we have different currencies, Sweden is not part of the monetary union.
Very well, that's why I asked you to correct me if I was wrong.
Exactly. I was referring to the differences in lifestyle, morals, religion, and ways of thinking, not the languages.
Very well, then your opinion comes from your underestimation of the differences between different places in the US.
You can either take my word for it, or come to the US and see for yourself... the US is very diverse.
Yep, there are parts in Europe that's more religious. Portugal, again, for example. We have our own bible belt here in Sweden, not far from where i was born. But they are not as fundamentalist. New York may be atheistic in your mind, but i never think a Atheist mayor would stand any chance to be elected.
You haven't been paying attention then. New York is very much like that.
As to portugal being religious, are the churches full? Because that's one thing I always notice in europe... empty churches.
In the US... especially in the bible belt, they're full. So full in some places that they build huge 10,000 person super churches.
No i don't think i overestimate it. I know there's more similarities between Sweden and Spain then it is between us and say Malaysia.
Europe has a population of 730 million.
First, that was my point... you are more similiar to each other then other countries are to you.
Your are more similar to each other then to the US, then to Canada, then to Austrialia, then Israel, then to Japan, or then South Korea. Yet all of those countries are liberal democratic countries that offer as many rights as your own countries or more.
Second, where did you get that number? I count 490 million.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/ee.html
That's the whole EU... so where are you getting the other 240 million? The US is 300 million so the EU has 190 million more people in it... or a ratio of 1.63 europeans for every one american. Perhaps of interest, the US has a GDP of 11 trillion and the EU has one of 13 trillion... so 1.18 dollars made in europe for every one in America. So on average a 72.4 percent higher production rate per person...
Not that it matters in this discussion...
Your second largest city is Los Angeles with a population of 3,819,951. Only Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Macedonia and Slovenia have less population. And, as you know, these are all new nations formed since the 90:s.
That's only if you look at the core of the city. If you take in the larger metropolitan area the number is much higher. LA is about 19 million if you include the FULL city. That's about everything around LA in about 10 miles. There are two very small cities within LA that would be included in that, but those exist within LA. Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, and Culver City are technically different cities as they have different governments. But they're IN LA like a blueberry is in a blueberry muffin. So they're really part of LA... especially since they both belong to Los Angeles County. LA has defacto control over many of these cities because it controls everything around them. If one of the little cities gets into a big fight with LA, it can change bus routes, traffic laws... or mess with the water and power. It's all one city really.
And i don't slam back, just food for your thoughts.
Not at all... I'm just trying to clear up some common confusions between americans and Europeans. Europeans often think of the US as just another country in the same way that spain or Norway is just another country. But the fact of the matter is that it's a large diverse country with few peers, while most european countries are comparatively small, homogeneous, and have several similar nations within close proximity. The only nation with a similar culture to the US is Canada... and even then they're only similar to ONE part of the US... New England. Their culture is unlike any other culture in the US BUT New England. And there are even variations within New England.
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