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Guess what she payed?

30 bucks. THIRTY BUCKS! Three zero dollares.

For the operation, anasthesia, IV- fluids, pre-op meds, five nurses and a surgeon. And about ten bucks for the post-op meds, prescribed for her to take at home.

She pays around 34,5% in income tax, as does the majority of people in Sweden.

And yeah, she had to wait a couple of months, because she didn’t want to take the option of beeing flown to another region, for free, to get the procedure done sooner. Like, a couple of days after it was decided the best course of action was to get infront of the problem, sooner.

And, she gets 80% of her salary for the two weeks she needs to stay home to recuperate!

And, get this, a colleague of hers that got diagnosed with breast cancer, had to pay a whopping, oh, 400 dollars? for a year of surgeries, chemo, and radiation. That includes weeks of hospitalizations and all the meds she had to take for, you know, everything. Whilst getting around 70% of her salary the whole time out on sick leave. FOR ALMOST TWO YEARS.

She also pays about 34,5% in income tax. By the way.

So tell me again how socialized healthcare doesn’t work.