[Wieldable4640]

Americans pay more for worse outcomes, so this is clearly a political/priorities issue, not an issue with wealth.

Other counterexamples are the other European countries with the same safety net which are not petro states (they do have colonial wealth though).

A lot of this was possible because of high corporate taxes and high marginal taxes on high incomes, so in theory this model could apply in most places.

[kjkjadksj]

Not all european countries have colonial wealth. There is universal healthcare in croatia and that nation started from scratch essentially 30 years ago and isn’t really a very strong economy today either.