>>>>In Sweden, visitors are sometimes surprised to learn about year-long waiting times for cancer patients, rioting in low-income suburbs and train derailments amid lagging infrastructure investment. The generosity of the system has declined, said Jonas Hinnfors, a professor of political science at the University of Gothenburg. Much of this already started changing in the 1980s and especially in the 1990s, he added. In the wake of a banking crisis in the early nineties, Stockholm scrapped housing subsidies, reformed the pension system and slashed the healthcare budget. ://news.yahoo/nordic-welfare-state-being-cut-down-size-052604736.html
Posted on: Mon, 27 Jan 2014 21:26:30 +0000
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