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Swedish minister says the country’s elderly are the problem and not refugees
https://voiceofeurope.com ^ | 4/29/18 | JOSHUA CULLEN

Posted on 04/30/2018 12:08:05 PM PDT by BBell

Sweden’s Minister of Social Affairs, Annika Strandhäll, told newspaper Aftonbladet that the country’s elderly and not refugees, are overloading the healthcare system.

The Swedish health care system is so overloaded that the care queues for surgery are so long that patients literally start to rot, Aftonbladet reported earlier.

Strandhäl is convinced this is not due to mass migration to Sweden. When readers of Aftonbladet claim that it is the acceptance of refugees that has made Swedish healthcare worse, the minister answers:

“That’s not true, that’s not true! We have a rapidly aging population in Sweden. Life expectancy increases by 3.5 hours a day and we have a larger number of chroniclers with life-long relationships with healthcare today than 30 years ago.”

According to Strandhäll, “the number of people aged 70 years and older will increase by 300,000 by 2025. That is the big problem, according to her. Refugee reception has nothing to do with it”.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: aftonbladet; angelamerkel; annikastrandhall; elderly; europeanunion; germany; minister; nato; refugees; sweden; swedish
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To: i_robot73

Next thing you know the Swedes will come out with Exit Spas where you can go and have a nice time being pampered before you “volunteer” to make room for those nice refugees.


41 posted on 04/30/2018 1:56:53 PM PDT by McGavin999 ("The press is impotent when it abandons itself to falsehood."Thomas Jefferson)
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To: BBell

annika is your typical brain-addled commie who despises others. I wonder if she “really” wants to kill them all.


42 posted on 04/30/2018 2:02:17 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: BBell

Carousel begin.


43 posted on 04/30/2018 2:34:44 PM PDT by avenir ("But as for you, teach what accords with sound doctrine."--Paul to Titus)
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To: BBell
with any luck, the stooopid cow won't live long enough to be a burden on their economy
44 posted on 04/30/2018 4:42:24 PM PDT by Chode (You have all of the resources you are going to have. Abandon your illusions and plan accordingly.)
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To: BBell

RIP Sweden.


45 posted on 04/30/2018 5:50:54 PM PDT by EdnaMode
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To: loveliberty2

And Ms Strandhall probably thinks she’ll be forty something forever?


46 posted on 04/30/2018 6:28:26 PM PDT by jmacusa ("Made it Ma, top of the world!'')
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To: BBell

““the number of people aged 70 years and older will increase by 300,000 by 2025. That is the big problem”

Only socialists would consider people living longer to be “the big problem”.


47 posted on 04/30/2018 7:19:43 PM PDT by Personal Responsibility (If we disarmed democrats gun violence would decrease by 90%.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; Convert from ECUSA; ...
Thanks BBell. The will of the various nations' majorities should not be allowed to undermine democracy. /s

48 posted on 04/30/2018 11:12:13 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: faithhopecharity

When the cattle cars arrived at the concentration camps, they had the “selections”; people who could be put to work on one side, those that couldn’t (primarily the elderly and very young) on the other - and the latter were immediately gassed. 80 years after Kristallnacht, and here we are...


49 posted on 05/02/2018 2:59:56 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Yes. There’s a lot of Nazis in European ruling elites today. EU headquarters being a steady fountain of Nazi propaganda in a form very reminiscent of the 1930-40’s era.


50 posted on 05/02/2018 6:33:03 AM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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To: Personal Responsibility
Only socialists would consider people living longer to be “the big problem”.

Boom.

51 posted on 05/02/2018 6:40:26 AM PDT by Skooz (Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us Gabba Gabba we accept you we accept you one of us)
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To: faithhopecharity

The most basic flaw of socialism is that people who can’t be squeezed to produce are useless in the larger scheme of things. That is why euthanasia has become legal in so many countries - why pay the medical bills/provide treatment for people who won’t produce anymore when you can just kill them?


52 posted on 05/02/2018 12:13:18 PM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: kearnyirish2

Exactly. Useless eaters


53 posted on 05/02/2018 12:39:33 PM PDT by faithhopecharity ("Politicans aren't born, they're excreted." -Marcus Tillius Cicero (3 BCE))
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