German Chancellor Friedrich Merz outlined a package of pension, tax and labor reforms on Thursday, along with measures to cut red tape that he said would boost growth, jobs and competitiveness while maintaining social welfare protections.
Some places do it here in Finland. It works exactly as poorly as you imagine. People show up to work sick more often and spread their cold to everyone in the office, and doctors are bogged down having to write sick notes for 1-2 day absences.
Of course we also have a stupid parallel private employment healthcare system so these are doctors whose job description is pretty much doing nothing but this, so it doesn’t (usually) directly lead to congestion in public healthcare – but it does indirectly do that, because these are doctors who could be working as GPs or something else useful instead of what they’re actually doing.
Some places do it here in Finland. It works exactly as poorly as you imagine. People show up to work sick more often and spread their cold to everyone in the office, and doctors are bogged down having to write sick notes for 1-2 day absences.
Of course we also have a stupid parallel private employment healthcare system so these are doctors whose job description is pretty much doing nothing but this, so it doesn’t (usually) directly lead to congestion in public healthcare – but it does indirectly do that, because these are doctors who could be working as GPs or something else useful instead of what they’re actually doing.