[peisistratos]

> I attempted to see a specialist for a condition that I had maybe two or three times, I ended up giving up every single time after I was told the wait time is between 3-4 months. I keep my American employer sponsored private insurance and employer determined time off policy.

I am in the US and go to good dentists and doctors, who are out of my insurance network incidentally, and they and the specialists they refer me to can easily have three month waiting times.

Also Sweden has been following the US lead of cuts and privatization since the 1990s, often led by the Social Democrats. It's a great strategy for the idle class - push through public health spending cuts due to costs, then bemoan the inevitable wait times as reason to privatize.