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An example of rationing: an exchange student from Sweden lived with us for a year, and during that time his sister broke her wrist. She got free surgery to repair it ... scheduled over a year in the future.

It hurt, and she couldn't lift even 5 lbs, but they were short money elsewhere and her hand wasn't going to fall off so she was put on a long waiting list. Had they though there was a risky of permanent injury the wait would have been only a couple of months, permanent disability a couple of weeks, etc. She ended up coming to the US to have the surgery done and visit her brother.




There's no need to go to the US for a banal surgery. Usually, people just call their friends who work in medical field/general state bureaucracy...everything is usually possible. Sure, it sucks for those without money and with low social capital but what the hell? That's how socialism works.
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