Swedish newspaper runs Washington Monument Syndrome spinoff

"Not enough money for sick people in end-of-life care"
Sub-article reading: "Most people want to talk about life". 

One month before general elections, you're bound to face some intense marketing, from the parties themselves as well as media (as I posted on Instagram some weeks ago when my local newspaper started interviewing people about how important voting is). The entire political class and its distributers have gone into a pre-election Frenzy. Yey!

That, another fairly common newspaper (Metro) decided was the perfect moment to prop up an old classic Washington Monument Syndrome. And I get to ramble about how useless and inefficient Government is.

WM Syndrome in two sentences: whenever governments' budgets are sqeezed, they cut back whatever activity would hurt the general public the most, and ultimately upset them a lot. This, then, has the brilliant effect that citizens become more susceptible to/likely to accept tax increases. Normal examples: Police services, fire department or in the case that gave name to the Syndrome: the Washington Monument.

In the article above, Metro describes how 25% of all deceased patients in healthcare died alone, because there wasn't enough funding so that a nurse could hold them company at the end of their lives. Funny, I think, as the World Bank says we spend north of $5000/capita on health care each year. 

I wonder...

Couldn't they get rid of a few bureacrats in all political levels?
Sell of some old desks or fire some staff at one of the 468 Swedish National Agencies, governing our lives and consuming our tax money?
Or simply not wasting the money in any of the countless examples given to us by Martin Borgs?

Not to mention, obviously, the 45% of GDP the Government steals from Swedish citizens each year. Since we lost the Global Gold Medal here a few years ago, since tax rates came down from 48% when the Social Democrats were in power, most leftist have drawn the undeniable conclusion that All Misery Comes From the Recent Reduction of Taxes.

I mean, even if I disagree with them in terms of _everything_, it doesn't it make sense at face value. It is undeniable that if you consume 45% of what your economy produces in a year, you should be able to reallocate some of those resources into Healthcare, seeing how that's the primary rationale for these taxes in the first place.

I bet we'll see some more examples of Washington Monument Syndrome over the next 31 days.


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Funny note about this election: The opposition, blaming Government for All Misery Imaginable, essentially accepts most tax cuts made over the last eight years on the pretense that you can't keep changing everything (from 48%->45%, MY GOSH, SUCH CHANGES!). Still, in Power, they promise us that they'll change everything into Utopia. 
Funny how tiny differences we have between our political parties: arguying over 6-8% of the entire tax burden.