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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.
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The skeptic in me says its a trojan horse and is a covert military ship to posture more assets in the area.
If he sent a hospital boat to any city in the US, it would fill up with needy Americans
He’d probably make sure all Americans pay up front for any health care they receive this way…
Now i am pretty sure Denmark has no hospital ship but imagine if they would send hospital ship to the US with free healthcare.
Maersk has the opportunity to help the Danish government do the funniest thing
Edit: the more I think about this the more I wish they would, but it’d probably take 3 years and cost half a billion euro to bring a new hospital ship online. I wonder if they could borrow one from somebody. Fill it with European medical staff, send it to Corpus Christi. Start treating us like the developing nation we are.
it’s a fucking trojan horse
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
Sink it. ‘Accidentally’, of course…
“Greatest country on earth” moment. What could we possibly give Greenland that they don’t already have? Measles??
Meanwhile the leading cause of bankruptcy here is medical debt 👍
That’s how they are gonna take over Greenland;
give them free medical supplies* shipping,handling,dispensing,and all the other insane fees not included
bill them
Now American bank owns Greenland!
If china wants to piss of the orange guy they should float medical shisp to the major cities with ports and advertise no charge health services and see the hospitals reee with anger about lost sales
That would honestly be hilarious and rhetorically effective
So that hospital boat will turn around to serve americans in american coastal cities right? Right???
lol, top notch joke
I am legitimately wondering if Trump would be stupid enough to do this. I’m sure it would violate all kinds of conventions, and would ensure no US ship would ever dock anywhere ever again, but at the same time I don’t think that would stop him.
You understood all wrong! The ship is sailing not to provide help. It sails to receive help.
:)
As if anyone in Greenland would want the substandard American healthcare, particularly with Mr. Brain-worm toilet-licker in charge of things now. Anyone visiting that ship is more likely to come away with some new disease like measles and a prescription to horse dewormer than they are actual healthcare. Greenland should put up a giant quarantine zone around the ship.
