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"Capitalism is good actually!" I scream at a homeless cancer sufferer living in a tent because the medical system took all their money.
That happens basically only in the USA. Do you think Finland is capitalist? Or the rest of the EU? Because that's not a thing there and has nothing to do with capitalism.
TIL for-profit healthcare isn't a product of capitalism
Yes, there are homeless people in Finland and the public medical systems of capitalist countries are constantly undergoing cuts by capitalist-run insurance companies doing everything they can to fully privatize the healthcare systems of places with Medicare, NHS whatever you want to call it.
The NHS in the UK is being dismantled as we speak and in my own country, Australia, our once decent Medicare system is a shell of what it once was, with very little being free anymore and more people being forced onto expensive insurance or left to rot if they can't afford it. These systems will always be under attack by capitalism and are the exception, not the rule.
The same Finland that has had multiple complaints from European committee of social rights about too low social security? And another one from the human rights centre for not implementing the decisions of the ECSR and judgements of European court of human rights? The one where the current government is planning to limit the workers right to strike and cut social services even further?
Are you trying to imply that Finland or the EU is socialist?
Because if so