This very articulate well written article & is basically accurate but it is also very simplistic & can easily lead to inaccurate conclusions. I have seen the very best of the Danish health care system close up taking care of my Danish wife's family with fantastic results. I have also seen some of the most ridiculous rule for rules sake nonsensical situations. When I was offered Danish... residency & the included health care (CPR card)I declined it & went to India to have my open heart surgery at my own expense instead of getting it done there for free. There is a big debate going on there now & private insurance & hospitals are growing very fast as wait times for non emergency treatment can be very long. For sure there is no one answer for health care worldwide. Denmark is a tiny country with 5.5 million people & basically a very homo genius population with a relatively small immigrant population (which has a multitude of problems associated with it). If you live a full Western lifestyle the total taxes paid are the most of any country on earth. So the Danes PRE-PAY for their services and are grossly overcharged for others. For example: eye glasses are the most expensive on earth (there is absolutely no valid cause for this as the there are no special taxes for this item). Try walking into a pharmacy (outside of Copenhagen) on a Saturday afternoon at 1PM. There will be only one in a town (the govt grants a monopoly)& it closes at 2:00 & does not open again till Monday morning (even in the summer in a holiday area). You will take a number & end up standing in a very polite line for at least 30 minutes to buy some aspirin. Only if you are an animal can you get a doctor/vet to come see you at your home 24/7. So people end up going to the emergency rooms of hospitals for everything so they can be & are easily over crowded. etc etc etc .....