Free Greenland/Danish healthcare vs. US insurance based healthcare?

The latter leaves between 44,000 and 90,000 dead a year because they don’t have cover. It also leaves 550,000 families bankrupt a year from medical bills.

This is classic ‘photo op going over the heads of leaders direct diplomacy’ from #Trump but smells of #Vance.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/feb/22/greenland-does-not-need-us-hospital-boat-sent-by-trump-says-denmark

Greenland does not need US hospital boat sent by Trump, says Denmark

Prime minister and defence minister rebuff US president’s claim that Arctic islanders are ‘not being taken care of’

The Guardian

But equally #Trump and #Vance may be trying to prevent the world realising it was actually the Danish who came to the rescue of an American submarine crew on Saturday:

#Danish Arctic Command evacuates US submariner

Trump's post on Saturday came after Denmark's Joint Arctic Command said it had evacuated a US submarine crew member who required urgent medical attention.

The submarine was in #Greenland's waters, seven nautical miles outside of #Nuuk.’

https://amp.dw.com/en/trump-says-sending-great-hospital-boat-to-greenland/a-76076414

Trump says sending 'great hospital boat' to Greenland

The US president said a vessel was "on the way" to Greenland, with the move coming amid a rift between the US and Europe over control of the island. Denmark hit back, saying no medical help was needed.

Deutsche Welle

The shame of having to request medical help from the Danish plus actually revealing how close the US have been deploying nuclear powered submarines to #Greenland’s capital, Nuuk is quite something…it had to be immediately covered up with a grand bold #Trump gesture of a medical ship.

A ship that would prevent the US having to be humble and seek help from Danes ever again

https://abcnews.com/amp/International/us-sailor-medically-evacuated-nuclear-submarine-greenland-official/story?id=130377835

US sailor medically evacuated from nuclear submarine near Greenland: Official

ABC News

@JugglingWithEggs And for added shame and patheticness, it's a makey-uppy hospital ship that only exists in an AI-generated image. Much shame should fall too on the journalists and media outlets in Denmark, the US and other countries reporting on this as a straight news story, once again letting the Trump regime pull their strings.

#USPol

@CiaraNi @JugglingWithEggs It is just Turnip making something all about him, as usual. He is not actually doing anything. As usual.

The US is a joke. They had chosen to put a ridiculous and stupid person in charge.