Something Is Rotten In Reykjavik
By Mitch Berg
Joe Doakes from Como Park emails:
A buddy forwarded this message to me:
Cops had to shoot the guy because he’s mentally ill and wasn’t getting proper care.
Icelandic website Visir later named the man as Sigrid Oscar Jónasdóttur and his sister Sigridur Jónasdóttir blamed poor health care for the mentally ill for the man’s death. “There are no resources for these people,” she told the site.
That story doesn’t ring true. Iceland has nationalized health care.
Healthcare in Iceland is universal. The healthcare system is largely paid for by taxes (85%) and to some extent by service fees (15%) and is administrated by the Ministry of Welfare. A considerable portion of government spending is assigned to healthcare. There is almost no private health insurance in Iceland and no private hospitals.[
Since it’s national health care, it MUST be the best possible system. We know thatfrom endless assurances by Democrats that nationalized, universal care is the key to the best health for all. So this shooting shows obviously some other plot afoot.
Obama blames Phil Robertson.
December 20th, 2013 at 6:20 am
OMG, I can’t believe I missed the link to the mentally ill person the cops shot at in New York City, then charged him with a crime for making them shoot two innocent bystanders.
Sorry, man, I totally blew that one.
December 20th, 2013 at 10:48 am
Looks like NBC isn’t aware that a man in Iceland will NEVER carry the surname “Jonasdottur”. Jonassohn or something like it, yes, but surnames in Iceland are patrilineal.
But yeah, to the point, health care is rationed everywhere, and the question is how, not if.