IshayuG at 2024-03-25 08:46:24+00:00 ID: kwgkycm

That's absolutely true, and I especially agree on college and healthcare. I'm not in the camp which thinks the state does a great job necessarily, but one thing I will say is that anything is better than what's going on in the US. It's some kind of crazy racket where everything is increased 20 fold in price at the hospital and then you have to buy insurance for "a better deal that's been negotiated".

Meanwhile, university tuition fees have gone completely insane, and the more the students can burrow and the more debt is forgiven, the worse it gets.

Now, keeping the private system and legislating these things out of existence should be simple. Prices you get should be equal to what the insurance has to pay on your behalf, and pretty much all of this is cleaned right up.

The loans should be much smaller - students want them larger but it just means bigger debt by the end, it doesn't actually make it easier to survive. Either that, or the loans regulate how big your tuition fee can be as a percentage of the loan, just like it is in Denmark where you have a minimum living expenses from the bank and if you want a loan it can't put you in a situation where you don't have that. I think it's 6000kr per person in the household at Danske Bank but that's a bit high for a student - but they could figure something out.

But despite being so simple it isn't being done, and I can only surmise it's because of massive corruption.

It's all complete bullshit and people are really having their lives ruined in a big way.