ABORTION!!!!!

[Ant10708]

I thought your argument was not to assume that people abuse the social benefit system.

[Zhukov]

I don't really see the problem in not assuming something as stupidly generalised as "everyone abuses the system".

[kahljorn]

Isn't, "Everyone does not abuse the welfare system" just as stupidly generalized?

[Blasted Child]

Obviously, I know that there exist people who abuse the system, I'm a not a complete idiot.
I meant that the attitude towards an individual benefit seeker shouldn't be that he's a potential con artist.
At the moment in Sweden there is a growing tendency to disbelieve just about everyone who is on a long term sick leave, and our government is about to cancel proper support for tens of thousands of seriously ill people.

I think we're moving in the wrong direction.

Also, I think the numbers relating to these insurance scams are a bit misguiding. How big a problem is this really? How big an amount of money is this compared to corruption, bonus-systems, corporate crime etc etc. How dangerous is it to our society that some people abuse the system, compared to letting poor people suffer because they can't afford the health care?
Has a nation ever fallen due to sheer lack of work force, due to labourers pretending to be sick when they aren't?
I think we're blowing this out of proportions.