"the health of the average dane (which is about as bad as the health of the average American twenty years ago)"
- Could you elaborate on this a bit more? I have lived both in Denmark and in the US and you really can't compare an average Dane to an average American (average Dane lives far far more healthy life than an American counterpart and has by far higher level of health care service). Not to mention the Danish health care system which is far superior to any other health care system I have ever witnessed. It should be a role model for all the other countries.