I spoke to a regional politician some time ago, apparently Sweden's healthcare has extremely high admin & leadership costs.
There's also a very strange model where public institutions are not allowed to own their buildings, which means facilities costs never go down.
I'm trying to decide if it makes me optimistic or pessimistic that almost whenever there's a "shortage" it's actually just mismanagement....
"There's also a very strange model where public institutions are not allowed to own their buildings, which means facilities costs never go down."
This is part of the right wing coalitions attempt to decrease funding to Universities. I can't speak for other institutions, but Universities are not allowed to own their own facilities, instead they must rent from Akademiska Hus. AH is a company that is owned by the state, and AH is required to be a for profit organisation.
You have money going from the government, to the universities, and then back to the government through Akademiska Hus. It's an enormous waste of money.
This technique is useful to them because it allows them to say "we're increasing the money we send to the universities" (something that looks good) while much of the money is just sucked back thanks to AH.
It is often argued for that you need to specialize services. A director of a university does not know much about building maintenance etc, so you have specialized govt agencies that does their part as efficiently as possible and «sell» those services to other govt institutions, and the increased efficiency reduces costs overall. I have seen little data that supports this actually working, although the reasoning isnt bad.
Sounds like a good topic for an econ paper.
How much "efficiency" this org needs to provide to make up for additional overhead/admin in the extra institutions
Technically the rent is "free" because the state pays for it, since Swedish universities are not for-profit.
The purpose of AH is to siphon this money back without having to lower the amount of money they pay to universities. It allows the government to say "Hey look we're increasing the amount of money we pay out to universities! We are so generous!" while at the same time they increase rents through AH.
Administrative costs in health care have skyrocketed over the past 25 years in Denmark, where middle managers and consultants have squeezed their way into hospitals and caregiving, selling them hyper-expensive and underperforming IT systems as well as robotics and automation.
Then also constant total hospital rebuilds, *while* firing hospital staff, and insane cost overruns on these rebuilds.
Consultants cost a lot more than the doctors and nurses alone, and yet, there is an incessant desire to keep reducing doctor and nurse staff.
It might be the same in any universal healthcare country, where private businesses can get a piece of the public healthcare cake and charge a premium for it.
“[Starve the beast](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starve_the_beast)”
Same thing is happening in Canada with conservative provincial governments intentionally destroying social healthcare programs to foster privatization.
By which measure exactly is government spending hitting "all time low?"
[https://www.government.se/government-of-sweden/ministry-of-finance/central-government-budget/central-government-budget-in-figures/](https://www.government.se/government-of-sweden/ministry-of-finance/central-government-budget/central-government-budget-in-figures/)
Income taxes and taxes on property and trade are totally divorced in Sweden. Just because the top rate tax is 80% or whatever doesn't mean the rich pay anywhere near that.
Not sure where you're getting that idea. [It's beaten out by most of Europe, and the United States isn't far off.](https://data.oecd.org/gga/general-government-spending.htm)
It's placed 12th in your list, not beaten by most of Europe, that's still puts it on the top of the world since Europe is generally the continent with the most public spending, it's rare for countries outside Europe to go over 40% of gdp. But I've seen lists that put sweeden higher.
[For example IMF] (https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/GBR/SWE/ESP/ITA/ZAF/IND) if you view it as a list, ignore microstates is well within the top 10 of the world.
The IMF shows totaly different stats : https://www.imf.org/external/datamapper/exp@FPP/USA/FRA/JPN/GBR/SWE/ESP/ITA/ZAF/IND/RUS
I don't know the difference in methodology, but there is no way the US are close to Sweden in percentage of government expenditures.
It seems a bit disingenuous to act like this is an inherent issue with the system and not acknowledge the effects of the right wing (by Sweden's standards) government on these social programs. It seems a bit like the Republican playbook after the ACA: Cut the funding, and then, once it's nice and shit, call to throw the whole thing out.
most people don't recognise because they don't know. Unless one is keenly interested in domestic policies of foreign countries *and* history *and* economics it's very hard to draw conclusions from other countries' woes. And yes, I know, the opposing politicians and media in general are supposed to bridge this "knowledge gap" and warn us. But who trusts politicians (and media) these days
Yeah, and it's only getting worse now that companies like Amazon are giving donations to k12 schools in exchange for corpo slogans painted on walls and "educational" material that preaches the evils of unions being added to the syllabus.
>A prominent factor in the rise of conservative and right-libertarian organizations, political parties, and think tanks, and predominantly advocated by them,[24][25] neoliberalism is often associated with policies of economic liberalization, including privatization, deregulation, globalization, free trade, monetarism, austerity, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoliberalism#:~:text=Neoliberalism%20is%20distinct%20from%20liberalism,in%20every%20aspect%20of%20society.
This explains soccer. Or maybe soccer explains parliament?
Before y’all complain: I refuse to call it “football”. The ball isn’t shaped like any foot I have ever seen.
They are forming a far-right government in the Netherlands as we speak because voters were made to believe the left ruined, or will ruin, our country.
We've never had a leftist government, not once.
We have had some left elements in our previous right wing coalitions, namely the PvDa in Rutte 2 and D66 is the other ones.
But all those were still economically right wing coalitions with the pvda even taking the fall of the failings of Rutte 2
Yeah everyone over here is beginning to see through it/get sick of it; even people who would’ve defended our government to the ground are starting to turn because their 40 year old grandchild is still living at home
The quicker the slimy lizards are gone the better
Thats the same thing here in India. 10 years on and the government is still blaming everyone else. Not an iota of accountability. It's hilarious and sad at the same time.
Even the social democrats (center leftwing) is more right wing now than our most right wing party was 20 years ago. Both the two biggest parties are actively destroying our country on purpose.
You just described the last 40 years of public management on latin america. Thanks IMF, without you, life would be possible \*Reagan and Tatcher smiles\*.
As an American, I recognize this playbook all too well, and exactly as you have described. Cut funding, let it suck, then complain about how much it sucks and how it needs to be dismantled. It's fucking dirty pool.
Well, the healthcare system is run by each county (they have the right to raise taxes) and elderly care is run by each municipality (that also have the right to raise taxes if they perceive it to be necessary). The counties (regions) and municipalities aren’t all run by the right wing parties (Stockholm for instance is led by the social democrats), yet most municipalities and regions seem to be struggling all the same.
I’d argue on the opposite, that it’s really far fetched to blame the current situation on the current right wing government (that are like 18 months in power) when the last government was social democrat and lasted for 8 years…
As far as I remember the discussion on healthcare and elderly care was just about the same during those 8 years…
And yet you fail to mention that before those 8 years the right wing party was the acting government where they cut taxes and privatized several sectors for their own greed.
Blaming the failing Stockholm hospice care on the social democrats when this is the first time they’ve Been in power in the county in over 30 years is a bit disingenious lol
Traditional Aussie cultural greeting (NSFW) >!Oi cunt!<
Mate, you know the rule. You’re not supposed to identify as Australian and then discuss politics, unless you throw in a *Thylarctos Plummetus* reference. I saved you.
But yes, we’ve had some utter turds in power, and they’ve refined their game over the last 20 years. Illegal to strike, hollowing out of the middle class, systemic failures to fund healthcare, social housing, incarceration rates through the roof.
Long gone are the days of erudite, socially responsible politicians who looked beyond their own election cycle and pension.
I mean on some level it is an inherent issue with the system, lots of publicly funded health systems are under massive stress from continued budget cuts. The systems were put in place, but the systems to actually make sure they continue to work are failing that is a systemic issue.
Got perma-banned from r/ europe on this exact link for commenting this:
**“You cannot simultaneously have free immigration and a welfare state.** ... I am in favor of the unilateral reduction of tariffs, but the movement of goods is a substitute for the movement of people. As long as you have a welfare state, I do not believe you can have a unilateral open immigration. I would like to see a world in which you could have open immigration, but stop kidding yourselves. On the other hand, the welfare state does not prevent unilateral free trade. I believe that they are in different categories.”
― Milton Friedman
Good thing Sweden doesn’t have free immigration then.
You do know that this is all by design from the current right wing government, which itself is based on the massive tax cuts from the right wing government from (IIRC) 2007-2015? The ‘left wing’ government between them was a largely ineffectual minority government that didn’t have the votes to get actually much done to change how messed up the country had become.
I mean, you get all this, right? Or are you just a racist that wants to blame everything on immigration?
I feel like this is a bit disingenuous and allows Socialdemokraterna to get off scot free for their mishandling of things, not very helpful. Their own report into their own failures state that they did not do enough. All this blaming back and forth is enormously tiring and just further decays political discussions.
[https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s-var-migrationspolitik-har-misslyckats--otsh3t](https://www.svt.se/nyheter/inrikes/s-var-migrationspolitik-har-misslyckats--otsh3t)
I disagree entirely. Mishandling of immigration still doesn't mean that it is that that that is bringing down the social model. Your link mentions crime statistics, but the social model is so much more than that.
It is very clearly underfunding that is the issue, but so many Swedes like to point their fingers at immigrations, even to the point of showing unrelated "proof", as that deflects from the realities that may challenges their political beliefs. Or even their greed (those tax cuts were nice, right?)
Why is it that every time someone points to immigration issues he is labelled as racist ?
That kind of attitude doesn't allow for open discussion to find the real causes of issues.
I am not saying I know the causes, I am just saying blaming immigration doesn't automatically make you a racist.
People should grow up and work with hard facts, not ideologies and ideas.
Years of experience from seeing people go straight to immigration when there are many other, far more important, factors at play?
The commenter appears to be a Romanian based in the UK, so they have next to no experience of what is going on in Sweden and yet decided to straight away play the immigration card. that, for me, says everything.
Try [https://www.ssb.no/innvandring-og-innvandrere/beregninger-fra-ssb-av-virkninger-av-okt-innvandring-pa-offentlige-finanser](https://www.ssb.no/innvandring-og-innvandrere/beregninger-fra-ssb-av-virkninger-av-okt-innvandring-pa-offentlige-finanser) if you want ot have something.
That's bs if they have a job they are already helping the system especially in a country with good salaries, it's even cheaper for the government who didn't need to spend in the for 18 years while they were a kid.
Idk about your country but in mine if you don't work you starve, unemployment benefit is only good for a few months, maybe that's a start? I mean figure it out.
That’s not the case in Sweden mate. Which is why they can just choose not to work. Which is what many migrants are doing. Although as I said, it seems to be only from select regions. Make of that what you will.
I mean that's a cultural issue, in poor regions there's always a culture about gaming the system to your own benefit, make a system that can't be abused until they integrate.
Show your sources. I've never seen any research that suggests immigrants are anything other than a net positive for any country they move to. They work more, they start more businesses, and the 2nd generation kids of those immigrants end up much richer than the kids of the native population.
Of course it's easy to point at individual examples of 'bad' immigrants, but the overall numbers do not lie. Immigration is an absolute neccessity, and with the native populations cratering all over the developed world, we need as many of them as we can get.
No state has ever successfully integrated migrants from third world countries to the level of natives. There is no place in Europe or otherwise where an African or Middle Eastern enclave matches the productivity of native Europeans. Not one. Across an entire continent.
State? When the immigrants fail to integrate!
One thing that no one seems to (dare to?) mention is the massive increase in crime those immigrants brought.
I personally know many of those immigrants who had to resort to crime, all I can say is that they're the victims here, and denying that is a really entitled way of seeing things
No one denies they are in a terrible situation too.
The question is how do we solve it? You can spend billions and hope it sticks, or you can avoid integrating people from radically different cultures.
Give them a place where they can feel at home and they'll work to sustain themselves
Sometimes I do volunteering at a communist circle where we gather food and give it to some poor families, and I've seen a lot of immigrants work tirelessly to help us. They weren't even getting paid, but just being accepted made them work hard. Now imagine if we had some workplaces like that, where everyone can feel safe instead of being exploited and insulted
This might be due to prejudice, they're usually cool people once you get to know them
I remember a specific event a few years ago, when I had to work in a black neighborhood (I'm a photographer) and a bunch of people warned me saying "oh that's so bad, they're gonna steal your cameras, be careful", then I went there, put my tripod down, and the first dude that passed nearby said "I wish you a great job brother!", then over the rest of the day a couple of others stopped by to talk and call me brother
In other scenarios, I've literally seen them chase down muggers to retrieve the purse of an old woman and stuff like that
The truth is, people who "don't feel at home" with them just haven't talked to them
Maybe. But it's also worth noting there are real differences in how the populations actually want to live and what they value. For example the vast majority of mosques in Sweden want to limit our free speech by outlawing insults towards Islam and burning on the koran. There have also been large demonstrations and campaigns on social media against our CPS because they take children from parents who treat them poorly, for example beating your kids is illegal in Sweden. These kinds of issues are sort of solvable of course, but the solution is to either make Sweden worse, or to change the minds of our new citizens, but considering the concept of assimilation has been seen as racist and anti-multicultural we're probably just gonna go for making the country shittier.
That's all you can say huh? Nothing about why they're victims of becoming criminals even though they live in a country where nobody starves?
Sounds kinda racist tbh. Why are they victims when other criminals are bad people? Are they not like the rest of us? Same brain capacity?
If you dont have a job in a country where nobody starves and are not eligible for support that prevents people from starving, then you become the only one who starves while no one believes you. It took me 6 months to get a job, because the locals always said they didnt want me even though they were hiring for low skill positions like dishwasher, janitor ect. The job I did get was from a chinese immigrant, and I worked my ass off more than any employee he had before, because he saved my life from homelesness and criminality.
What are you even talking about?
They have less opportunities _specifically_ because people are racist and aren't willing to pay a decent living to anyone who is born too south or too east. Many of them work as hard as they can and are exploited to the bone, while others resort to crime because they're tired of living in poverty.
Most of them are treated as criminals even when they aren't, so at that point, what's the difference?
>why are they victims when other criminals are bad people
Did I ever say that? Like a great man once said, "while there is a criminal element, I am of it". Criminality is our responsibility as a society.
Honestly I find your comment insulting and you should be ashamed.
shift from EU to non-EU migrants. Migrants from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey aged 25-64 were almost twice as likely to be economically inactive as someone born in the UK.
Spanish migrants typically earned around 40pc more than migrants from Pakistan or Bangladesh, while migrants from countries such as Canada, Singapore and Australia paid between four and nine times as much income tax as migrants from Somalia or Pakistan.
Also this
https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/33597/germany-twothirds-of-syrian-refugees-unable-to-support-themselves
Immigrants are not a homogeneous group and the failure happens when non-productive people with bad incentives are allowed to enter the country. Nobody is complaining about highly educated expats who immigrates in order to work abroad for a few years.
The entire argument is about welfare migrants, who do not have a job when they move to the country, are unlikely to find a job in the future and have low incentives to do so anyway, because the welfare is good enough. We in the Nordic countries are unlikely to switch to a sink-or-swim system, so the only realistic solution is limiting immigration via a point system, being stricter with permanent resident permits and citizenship (Switzerland does it right), and more actively deporting those who don’t obey the rules.
We can’t afford to provide welfare benefits for the planet and we have no obligation to do so anyway.
If its managed correctly. In the UK for example, the care workers brought in over the last few years brought dependents with them at a 1:2 ratio, and apparently the state might have lost money overall because those dependents are using other services like the school system.
Infinite population growth isn't sustainable and net migration for a country with a natural population decline will have both a lower bound where a country is missing out on opportunities to fill jobs and an upper bound where those immigrants are actually making quality of life worse by putting too much pressure on housing and other public services.
Not blaming migrants, I am a migrant myself in UK. I am blaming my government for choosing them so poorly and leaving room for abuse.
>Analysis of Home Office data showed the impact of the shift from EU to non-EU migrants. Migrants from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey aged 25-64 were almost twice as likely to be economically inactive as someone born in the UK.
> Spanish migrants typically earned around 40pc more than migrants from Pakistan or Bangladesh, while migrants from countries such as Canada, Singapore and Australia paid between four and nine times as much income tax as migrants from Somalia or Pakistan.
Also this - [https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/33597/germany-twothirds-of-syrian-refugees-unable-to-support-themselves](https://www.infomigrants.net/en/post/33597/germany-twothirds-of-syrian-refugees-unable-to-support-themselves)
You have responded to collapsing welfare with a statement on how migrants are incompatible
Sweden also doesn't have free migration if others' claims are to be trusted so it's not relevant there either
Not everything is the fault of immigrants, you know. The fall of the welfare state has been the expressed intent of the Swedish right-wing for decades, it is just starting to come into fruition. By now, most previously world leading institutions of our countryhave been sold for a penny on the dollar to private actors and then ruined. The economic situation is all a result of the loaning policy which have caused houseowners in Sweden to have among the largest debts in the world. And solving the problem for future generations means that Swedish houseowners must take a loss in the value of their house, which they will never do willingly.
I am convinced its not the only factor but I am also sure people underestimate how great the impact has been.
From loss of high quality migrants (that paid plenty of tax) not choosing to move to Sweden due to the country being seen as a crime filled mess.
- none of my friends would even think choosing Sweden and consider it a lost cause
To direct and indirect impact to the budget. Think handouts to refugees through housing healthcare, food, education. To police and investigators resources being spent on crime that simply wasnt there before. Doctors treating wounds that those shooting events cause. More room needed in public transport. List goes on.
Except those crimes are not committed by refugees. First generation immigrants are underrepresented in crime statistics, not the other way around. And the cost of housing refugees is minimal and not close enough to have any meaningful impact on the national economy.
[https://www.statista.com/statistics/1177271/number-of-reported-cases-of-sexual-offence-in-sweden-by-type/](https://www.statista.com/statistics/1177271/number-of-reported-cases-of-sexual-offence-in-sweden-by-type/)
Wonder what happened in 2015 lol
>Moreover, if we piece [various statistics](https://www.scb.se/en/finding-statistics/statistics-by-subject-area/population/population-composition/population-statistics/pong/tables-and-graphs/yearly-statistics--the-whole-country/foreign-born-by-country-of-birth-sex-and-year-of-immigration-31-december-2020/) together, we find there are 565,902 foreign-born people living in Sweden who were born in North Africa and the Middle East, representing 4.9% of Sweden’s population. Yet 16.4% of those convicted of rape and attempted rape are foreign-born individuals from North Africa and the Middle East: over-representation by a factor of 3.3. And that figure rises to 4.7 when you consider all foreign-born citizens from Africa (excluding North Africa.)
[https://unherd.com/2021/04/swedens-migrant-rape-crisis/](https://unherd.com/2021/04/swedens-migrant-rape-crisis/)
What's that supposed to prove? These aren't the same people as involved in the gang violence we see now, which is mainly people born and raised in Sweden, in areas suffering from poor integration policies. Nor or these people the cause of the devaluation of the Swedish Crown or the housing market bubble, whose cause predates any major immigration wave. The current economic situation has been predicted for a long time and is a result of political economic policy that values individual wealth hoarding over the collective welfare within the state.
> The writing has been on the wall for 40 years by now, and the result would have been the same with or without immigration.
Yeah, immigration doesn't affect how people vote what so ever. Just like immigration doesn't affect the housing market or that immigrants from poor parts of the world have a higher outtake of social services than nativeborns.
Sur immigration effect how people vote. They also have a marginal impact on welfare costs and perhaps the housing market. But in Sweden, the housing issue and the deconstruction of social services predates any major immigration, and an issue which existed before immigration aren't gonna be fixed by getting rid of immigrants.
So how are you gonna cope when the fascists actually win, throw out all the brown people, yet the situation doesn't get fixed, because it is ultimately not the source of the problem? Are you gonna ask for forgiveness for dumping the result of decades of poor economic policy on people whose only crime was escaping death?
Dude I am a migrant myself in UK. I lived in those shithole migrant towns most of the past 10 years and just recently escaped. You are just clueless and I bet you've been isolated from all these issues.
Glad you have. I haven't, in fact I am so sick of it I made this account just to raise awareness.
Brought in links, sources stats + I've got first hand experience. But sure I am a fascist and racist and any other ist and ism you want.
I live smack in the middle of a so called "no-go" zone in Sweden. It's not that bad in general. But OK, so you simple created your account to bring awareness of the dangers immigrants possess? What a fine purpose. What about the dangers of borrowing yourself into a coma to buy a house you can't afford, only to have to continously fuck with the economy so that 2/3rds of the country's homeowners become destitute?
Like, I'm not joking. The reason for the economic downturn is known, and it is the same as the last few times.
If you go through my posts/comments you'll find my commenting about those as well.
[https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1bxdc0j/uk\_house\_prices\_have\_risen\_about\_12\_when/](https://www.reddit.com/r/unitedkingdom/comments/1bxdc0j/uk_house_prices_have_risen_about_12_when/)
[https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1bvneaf/uks\_bright\_future\_ahead/](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/1bvneaf/uks_bright_future_ahead/)
So you get an idea. I am fully aware there are multiple issues at play but (and I speak about UK here) we cannot grant 1.5 million visas and have 700k net migration a year indefinitely something must give and something will give.
Housing? I am sure its linked to population growth + NIMBYs.
Wellfare state erosion? I am sure its the government funneling money in their corrupt pockets but one way they are doing it is through Asylum hotel contracts.
And dont even get me started with the quality of some migrants. Not refugees or 'refugees' I mean migrants. The bar was set too low here for far too long.
Friedman was sociopath who happily enacted his economic wet dreams in a country where the US overthrew the democratically elected leader in favour of a bloodthirsty dictator who had 'death squads' roaming the country murdering leftists at will. Friedman happily guided their economy while this was going on, insisting on a 'sudden shock' to change their economy from socialism to neoliberalism, which threw the country into turmoil from which is has never really recovered. I'm talking about Chile. Tens of thousands murdered by the government, hundreds of thousands of lives completely ruined for the sake of an economic experiment.
Even after this utter farce showed Friedman's ideas were extremely destructive, he just keep insisting the opposite. Never changed his mind on anything.
I wouldn't pay attention to his opinion on anything, period.
The problem isn't open immigration but a problem of not enough workers to replace the aging population. This article is about not having enough social workers for the healthcare department and most of the budget increase is coming from pensioners.
And how are they planning to fix the worker shortsge issue? Let me guess its migration!
Is that a long term solution though? As swedes age and die replace them from abroad? Will that ever stop? Whats the plan here?
That's a discussion for another topic but this specific article was more about pension cost and social workers complaining that they're being overworked
I'd say the issue here is that the workers they bring in have nothing to do with planning for some sort of labour replacement. They are not bringing in doctors, they are bringing in some random guys that "found money" to travel from another continent.
It's not free immigration. The swedish are just buying cheap labour from abroad. A very capitalist thing, one might say
and in no way you can substitute the move of people for the move of goods and capital
Milton Friedman is an evil man who engineered the end of 20th century broad based prosperity. *He* is what happened to the American middle class. Fuck him.
Welfare state is funded by workers, what actually harms it is old people who can't work and earn pensions and kids who are a burden to the system until they are old enough to work and pay taxes, immigration cut that spending, becuase they are raised in other country, Uruguay welfare system is having the same issues and is open to Cuban and Venezuelan immigrants who come to work in search for a better future.
You are right. Welfare state is funded by workers and what actually harms it are people who won’t work and earn their living such as welfare migrants. The solution to this is to limit immigration or welfare benefits, with the politically most viable solution being limiting immigration to those who can provide for themselves and their families.
The solution is to allow immigrants to work fast, idk what happens there but here immigrants can get their papers ready in a week and start working right away.
Analysis of Home Office data showed the impact of the shift from EU to non-EU migrants. Migrants from the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey aged 25-64 were almost twice as likely to be economically inactive as someone born in the UK.
Spanish migrants typically earned around 40pc more than migrants from Pakistan or Bangladesh, while migrants from countries such as Canada, Singapore and Australia paid between four and nine times as much income tax as migrants from Somalia or Pakistan.
Exactly and that is what is meant by welfare state being incompatible with free immigration. You need to limit the type of immigrants you admit or to limit welfare benefits by moving towards a “sink or swim” system, but the latter is even less politically viable here in the Nordics.
Then he's wrong.
Sweden's problem is voting in right wing ghouls in power who only want to lower taxes for themselves and cut down on spending for things people need like healthcare.
Sweden's current PM got a big apartment in central Stockholm through connections that was supposed to be set aside for battered women..
People who vote for these people and care about healthcare are dumb as shit.
None of the solutions to this are going to be pleasant. We're looking at some combination of even higher retirement ages, a move back to the expectation that people live near/look after their elderly parents (already the norm in countries like China), kicking the can further down the road with mass migration, euthanasia/limiting access to the healthcare system, a continually deteriorating quality of healthcare and expensive automation.
I guess a sensible policy move would be to provide smaller financial incentives for people who look after elderly relatives themselves instead of sending them to care homes, without requiring them to do it as a full time job.
Doesn't help when you open the borders to millions of foreigners from the ME and Africa that not only leach off the system but provide nothing in return with little to low skillsets. That country was doing just fine 20 years ago until they had to hit their diversity quota, just like many Western countries. What a shame
Suc dems tearing apart their welfare state the second they think they can get away with it, a real classic. Turns out all these parts of the social contract we consider sacrosanct like are only untouchable until they start getting taken for granted. Then we get to watch as the most technologically advanced societies in human history send their old and young back to the poor houses to work for beans and buttons.
The Socdems have not been resposonaible for any of the the spending cuts. All these budget cuts have happened under a neolib government. Im also not claiming the socdems are perfect and during the lads 20 years they have done basically nothing to reverse the damage the neolibs have done to the system.
Healthcare costs just going up everywhere, people are living longer and there are way more treatment options; in other words healthcare is way better than it used to be but naturally there's a cost to that.
It is better but the biggest favcor is Americanisation of the healthcare systems.
nhs in the UK is sending more and more service to private companies who are charging 10x the price because they can. Right wing politicians hamstring the nhs through forced shit pay, conditions, Removal of training bursaries, removal of non uk workers via brexit etc then farm it out to mates at high costs and take a cut.
To solve: fuck off the right wing vulture capitalists, put the money farmed to 3rd party services into the actually fucking nationalised service (bring it in house) and watch it flourish.
Jail and remove assets of the politicians who have done it systematically since regan/thatcher to line their own pockets
I could tell based by what happened during the last election in Sweden that they have large problems with declining economy, skyrocketing housing prices, worsening access to healthcare, growing divide between rich and poor and between cities and rural areas, and deteriorating quality of life for a large part of the population. I
ts happening literarily all over europe and the west, from UK to the Netherlands and Germany or Italy. Sadly its far easier to blame this on the evil brown people rather than the slow collapse of the system caused by corrupt politicians and decaying capitalism.
We even have the same issue in Poland nowadays. The government literally just passed a law that was openly pushed by banksters and real estate agencies, which will inflate the housing prices to never before seen levels. There was a large protest planned against this yet predictably only a bunch of people showed up. At the same time the right wing rhetoric of blaming Ukrainian refugees and even South east Asian immigrants we get nowadays for this and other social issues we are facing is picking up steam. Expect Konfederacja to become part of the government here within the next 15-20 years at best. And the right wing fascist wannabes in other countries arent going nowhere until these problems are fixed too, no matter how racist the mainstream becomes to steal a bunch of their voters. Capitalism is on its last legs and we all know what the final stage of capitalism is.
Capitalists will repeat the good old tried method of enriching themselves, blaming minorities and external countries for problems, enable fascists, and bring living standards down for the next iteration.
And as always, leftists will be blamed all the way down.
Quit job at corporation, become a politician, take a well functioning system, destroy it, blame the system, abandon it, call it fiscal responsibility, quit job as politician, get a board membership, laugh all the way to the bank.
The Rich and Corpos don't care. They get all the care they need. From their point of view it's your fault for not being born rich or not being a multi billion Currency-Unit corporation.
Similar thing is happening in Ontario Canada in their hospitals. The Ontario provincial government is purposely breaking the current government funded hospital system. They were just quoted by saying that they don't see a problem with the lack of family physicians, when this has been an issue raised by the people and by the family physicians still left in the province.
The Ontario government has already implemented 'pay for' surgery centers in Ontario, drawing on the dwindling resources of nurses. I'm sure the Ford government is going to try to implement pay for hospitals soon as well and just gut the government funded healthcare model.
I'll admit, there are problems with the current model, mainly the top heavy administrative she management jobs that need to be done away with or cut. But getting rid of government funded healthcare is a horrible choice that's going to hurt alot of people.
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> Across Sweden, the feeling is the same: Despite being a priority for voters, healthcare is no longer being allocated the resources it needs. And it's not going to get any better. According to SKR, the association of Swedish local authorities, the municipal deficit is set to reach 7 billion kronor (€600 million) by 2024, and 24 billion kronor for the regions. In early April, the liberal-conservative government, backed by the far right, announced a 6.5 billion kronor boost to health spending.
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