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Heidi aka Fuzzy View Drop Down
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    Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 10:49am
Accepting donations to the Make Heidi Leave DK fund. PM me for info on how to help!

Disclaimer: this pokes fun at the tired universally used "If you don't like it, why don't you leave?" meme.
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  Quote damestjernelys Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 15 Jul 2010 at 11:00am
I read about Denmark's ranking in Politiken this morning. Yeah.
"One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death." (Glen Duncan)
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  Quote TomN Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 26 Jul 2010 at 1:23pm
Not an issue for me.  I have to move back to the USA at some point anyway.

I have already been told by a Danish lawyer that I need to make plans to go home to America to die so that Danish inheritance laws do not screw my Americans kids in favor of my Danish-American kid.  One cannot even make personal decisions on who gets what when you die in this country.  Equal parts for all the kids?  No way - DANISH kids get at least 50% and the rest of the siblings can fight over the leftovers.

Once my little guy goes off on his own, I am moving back to California.  DK can send my 2647 DKK per year Danish pension (yes, PER YEAR according to my latest ATP statement) to my San Francisco address.

Yes, I pay several thousand kroner per MONTH, INTO a pension fund, and I will get several thousand kroner per YEAR, OUT when I retire.

BOHICA ;)

But back to the subject at hand:  one of the dirty little secrets in DK is that the "family practitioner" doctor in DK is actually the gatekeeper who decides who gets to go further into the medical system.  So part of the primary care-giver's job is to cut costs by denying you access.  Is it really any wonder that elder care is so dismal?  "This person is about to die anyway, so why bother taking care of them?"

Then throw in the fact that DK is facing a dire shortage of qualified medical personnel, yet refuses to recognize the perfectly legitimate credentials of medical practitioners from many other countries.  Some of those countries have more stringent educational requirements than DK.  It is "Danish smug" working against DK's best interests with little relief in sight.
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  Quote damestjernelys Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: 31 Jul 2010 at 4:56pm
It's BS. Total BS.
"One day the ordinariness will be terminally punctuated by the extraordinary full stop of death." (Glen Duncan)
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