Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneurs (2019)

Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by rayiner on Sunday February 16, 2020 @07:46AM (#22341308)

It’s a misleading statistic that gets used because it helps push the narrative that things are broken: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5865642.

> However, the magnitude of the bankruptcy effect is much smaller than previously thought: we estimate that hospitalizations cause only 4% of personal bankruptcies among nonelderly U.S. adults, which is an order of magnitude smaller than the previous estimates described above.

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Re:Sweden gives employees unpaid time off to be entrepreneur... by cheez on Sunday February 16, 2020 @10:48AM (#22342034)

I'm not so sure that rate of medical bankruptcies is the metric I'd use to measure the healthcare system! But point taken.

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