The employers.
What if you don't have an employer?
LOL. Wait for it...
Then you still don't pay anything. DUH!
The internet says:
"The Swedish health care system is mainly government-funded, universal for all citizens and decentralized, although private health care also exists. The health care system in Sweden is financed primarily through *taxes* levied by county councils and municipalities.
"By 2015 the cost of health and medical care had risen to 11.9% of GDP -the highest in Europe. Seventy-one percent of health care is funded through local taxation and county councils have the right to collect income tax. The state finances the bulk of health care costs, with the patient paying a small
nominal fee for examination. The state pays for approximately 97% of medical costs."
So you pay some for examinations, and you pay all of your prescription
costs until a limit kicks in, afterwhich the government picks it up by
using *tax money*.
The internet also tells me that corporations must pay a percentage of the sick employee's wage while they are off sick, but only for the first 14 days, afterwhich the government pays the percentage... again, out of *tax money*.
The internet also tells me that the Swedish government takes about half of
each *employee's* paycheck in *taxes* which are used to support the government health care system, child care system, and education system. For more than
40 years, Sweden has had some of the highest taxes in the world in order to
pay for these things.
So, do I believe the internet (where I can read the sources that are
cited), or do I believe Bjorn, who provides no sources?
Nothing is free.
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