It’s a similar story in Norway also add shitty weather crappy expensive food super expensive alcohol to the list.

Couldn’t agree more on health care long waiting list mostly due to limited health care professionals.

Denmark (and Sweden) are often cited as countries with fairly successful "socialist" social policies such as healthcare.

Can you please elaborate more about that particular point?

From my own research, it seems that most (if not all countries) with socialized healthcare have it worse than the US or other countries that supposedly have the wors because healthcare is not affordable and/or provided by the government.

Socialized healthcare just means that healthcare is primarily a government monopoly and monopolies always provide their service as the highest possible cost with the lowest possible quality.

The waiting times in DK were at one point so bad that it was mandated by law, that certain timeframes for treatment must be respected, but this is rarely possible. I had one family member diagnosed with cancer i november, treatment started in february, death was in september. Another just last week, was hit by a heart attack, something blocking the arteries. She received some pills/nitro and was told she needed a scan of the heart in order to fix the problem, and that she should come back in a month or so. We're hoping she'll make it that far.

I can't say how much worse this is than in the US, but it seems to me that the problems the US face in terms of steep pricing are also the result of government regulation.