, after Sipila failed to push through the reforms. The changes were crucial to the three-party governing coalition’s plan to balance public finances.Financial constraints are colliding with the health-care costs imposed by Finland’s fast-ageing population. But cutting those costs is a major political obstacle in a Nordic country that historically has provided an extensive – and expensive – health-care system.
Sipila resigned “because the health-care reform cannot be accomplished during this government term,” Antti Kaikkonen, the head of Sipila’s Centre Party’s parliamentary group, wrote on Twitter. Several governments have tried to push through reforms in different forms over the past 12 years. “Since elections were already set for 14 April, the resignation of the government is not a big deal at all at this point. Still, it does create some ugly headlines,” Nordea’s chief analyst wrote on Twitter.
According to the government, the reform could have curbed the annual growth of Finland’s public social and health-care expenses to 0.9 per cent from the current estimate of 2.4 per cent between 2019 and 2029. Sipila had previously said he would dissolve his centre-right coalition government if it failed to push through its health-care and local government reform.
Still say give generation greed better known as baby boomers each a bottle of whisky and a hemlock pill to reduce cost as they were the generation that received the most for doing the least. They also invented such phrases as 'the man' and 'not trust old people'. ...............
Organized labour is the reason that taxpayers can't have nice things.
'Oywel? Vee messed up! See ya! '
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