Greenland does not need medical assistance from other countries, Denmark has said, after Donald Trump said he was sending a hospital ship to the autonomous Danish territory that he wants to acquire.
“The Greenlandic population receives the healthcare it needs. They receive it either in Greenland, or, if they require specialised treatment, they receive it in Denmark. So it’s not as if there’s a need for a special healthcare initiative in Greenland,” the country’s defence minister, Troels Lund Poulsen, told the Danish broadcaster DR on Sunday.
In Greenland, as in Denmark, access to healthcare is free. There are five regional hospitals across the vast Arctic island, with the Nuuk hospital serving patients from all over the territory.
Mette Frederiksen, the Danish prime minister, defended Denmark’s healthcare system, writing on Facebook that she was “happy to live in a country where there is free and equal access to health for all. Where it’s not insurances and wealth that determine whether you get proper treatment.”
“You have the same approach in Greenland,” she said, before adding: “Happy Sunday to you all” in front of a blushing, smiling emoji.
Ironically, if Greenland ever did become part of the US all those people that Trump is pretending to care about will instantly lose free or even affordable healthcare.
Why is Trump sending free healthcare to other countries while US citizens are dying of easily preventable illnesses because they can’t afford medical care? I thought he was all about America first?/s
Trump sending the hospital ship to Greenland, sending $10B to the Board of Peace…he’s such a giving person when it’s our money. When it is his own? Not so much…
Don’t forget that he gave $40 Billion to Argentina in the middle of a government shutdown where we had stopped giving food to our own poor citizens.
I didnt wake up ready to be filled with rage, but here I am.
Why you guys in the US are not running around with pitchforks and torches is still unbelievable to me…
The militarized police force probably has something to do with it…
If not the ghoulish pigs, at least 1/3 of my neighbors would probably jump at the chance for some patriotic violence.
Yeah, a lot of people don’t realize how deeply unstable a lot of “ordinary americans” really are.
For a long time they thought it was a land of progress because of what was essentially just effective marketing. A well-managed PR department and tight control of the public narrative.
A lot of people with fascistic tendencies weren’t really on the internet until around when trump entered politics. Then all these right-wing grifters started popping up and radicalizing large swaths of people.
Before then, people thought America was sane. It wasn’t, the insane people just kept to themselves for the most part. That’s the only thing that’s changed, really…