The rehabilitation chain

The plan's crucial commitment is a humane sickness insurance and an end to the exclusion of sick people, and the party programme wants more people to be covered by sickness insurance. Abolishing the rehabilitation chain's fixed time limits and assessing work capacity based on the insured person's actual condition is exactly what would stop the exclusions. The plan does not mention the rehabilitation chain by name, so the conclusion is derived.

• end to exclusion from insurancedecisive»Vänsterpartiet vill se en mänsklig sjukförsäkring och ett slut på utförsäkrandet av sjuka.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The Left Party wants to see a humane sickness insurance and an end to the exclusion of sick people.”
• secure compensation when ill»När du blir sjuk eller föder barn ska du kunna lita på att få ersättning från Försäkringskassan utan att behöva stånga dig blodig.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“When you become sick or have a child, you should be able to rely on receiving compensation from the Social Insurance Agency without having to fight tooth and nail.”
• strengthen sickness insurance»Att stärka framför allt arbetslöshets- och sjukförsäkringarna, så att fler kan omfattas och fler får ut mer av sin tidigare« (party programme ↗)“To strengthen above all unemployment and sickness insurance, so that more can be covered and more get out more of their previous”
• consideration for work-life wear»Trygghet på arbetsmarknaden är också att alla ska orka jobba hela vägen fram till pensionen.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Security on the labour market is also that everyone should be able to work all the way through to retirement.”

The plan protects the principle that those too sick to work should be able to rely on sickness insurance and requires greater financial security in case of illness. An assessment based on the insured's actual condition instead of the rehabilitation chain's fixed time limits is in line with this, as is the income loss principle. The rehabilitation chain as such is not mentioned in the plan.

• reliable sickness insurancedecisive»vi slår vakt om principen att den som är för sjuk för att arbeta ska kunna lita på sjukförsäkringen« (2022 manifesto ↗)“we protect the principle that those too sick to work should be able to rely on sickness insurance”
• increased security in illness»Också vid sjukdom är det nödvändigt med större ekonomisk trygghet.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Also in case of illness, greater financial security is necessary.”
• protected security pension»Vi står upp för trygghetspensionen, som utmanas av krafter från höger« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We stand up for the security pension, which is challenged by forces from the right”
• income loss principle in social insurance»Socialförsäkringarna ska bygga på inkomstbortfallsprincipen.« (party programme ↗)“Social insurance should be based on the income loss principle.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan wants to reform sick insurance so it provides better security during sick leave and so people are not shuffled between agencies, and the party programme establishes that the safety net should be improved so no one falls through and that society should actively support rehabilitation. To replace the rehabilitation chain's fixed time limits with an assessment of the insured person's actual condition is therefore consistent with the plan.

• safer sick insurancedecisive»förändra sjukförsäkringen så den ger bättre trygghet vid sjukskrivning och se till att människor inte bollas mellan myndigheter när de behöver samhällets stöd.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“reform sick insurance so it provides better security during sick leave and ensure that people are not shuffled between agencies when they need society's support.”
• safety net without gaps»Samhällets skyddsnät måste förbättras så« (party programme ↗)“Society's safety net must be improved so”
• active rehabilitation support»genom åtgärder för rehabilitering och utbildning.« (party programme ↗)“through measures for rehabilitation and education.”

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The plan wants to protect the work ethic and have safety nets that stimulate work and self-sufficiency, and its answer to shortcomings in the sick leave insurance is more flexible sick leave and better rehabilitation rather than abolishing the rehabilitation chain. Moreover, assessing work capacity based on gender and age contradicts the plan's requirement that people be treated as individuals, not based on gender. The counter-proposal's demand therefore goes against the plan.

• valued work ethicdecisive»Arbetslinjen måste värnas, och den som kan jobba ska inte leva på skattebetalarnas pengar.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The work ethic must be valued, and those who can work should not live on taxpayers' money.”
• individual before group membership»I ett liberalt samhälle behandlas vi utifrån de individer vi är« (party programme ↗)“In a liberal society we are treated as the individuals we are”
• more flexible sick leave instead»Vi vill förbättra rehabiliteringen och göra sjukskrivningen mer flexibel.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“We want to improve rehabilitation and make sick leave more flexible.”
• safety that stimulates work»vara utformad så att ingen faller igenom samtidigt som den stimulerar till arbete och egen försörjning« (party programme ↗)“be designed so that no one falls through while stimulating work and self-sufficiency”

flags: delvis stöd: flexiblare bedömning av arbetsförmåga

The plan takes no explicit position on what the committee actually decided — often because the committee's reason was procedural. The stance is derived and fully cited, but it does not show the party broke a commitment.

The party programme requires that health insurance be linked to support and rehabilitation to facilitate return to work and that qualification rules support the work principle, which speaks for time-limited testing against the labor market rather than for abolishing the rehabilitation chain. Moreover, allowing gender to be a criterion of assessment goes against the plan's requirement that the prohibition on gender discrimination be maintained in all sectors of society. The plan does not address the rehabilitation chain directly, so the assessment is inferred and uncertain.

• rehabilitation towards return to workdecisive»stöd och rehabilitering för att underlätta återgång till arbete« (party programme ↗)“support and rehabilitation to facilitate return to work”
• the work principle in insurance»Kvalifikationsreglerna måste stödja arbetslinjen« (party programme ↗)“Qualification rules must support the work principle”
• no gender discrimination»Förbudet mot könsdiskriminering ska upprätthållas på alla samhällsområden.« (party programme ↗)“The prohibition on gender discrimination shall be maintained in all sectors of society.”
• security in illness»Sjukförsäkringen ska ge ekonomisk trygghet vid både kortvarig och kronisk sjukdom« (party programme ↗)“Health insurance shall provide economic security for both short-term and chronic illness”

The plan demands that compensation levels be designed so that the individual is stimulated to participate in measures leading to return to work and that benefit dependency is countered; abolishing the rehabilitation chain removes precisely the step-by-step testing against the labour market. Adding age and sex as assessment criteria conflicts with the plan's requirement for well-functioning laws against all discrimination in working life. The requirement for reasonable security in sickness speaks partly for relaxations, but not for these.

• counter benefit dependencydecisive»uppmuntras, och att bidragsberoende motverkas.« (party programme ↗)“encouraged, and that benefit dependency is countered.”
• compensation as stimulating rehabilitation»Nivåerna på ersättningarna ska utformas så att den enskilde stimuleras att delta i åtgärder« (party programme ↗)“The levels of compensation shall be designed so that the individual is stimulated to participate in measures”
• no special treatment by sex and age»Väl fungerande lagar mot all diskriminering i arbetslivet ska finnas.« (party programme ↗)“Well-functioning laws against all discrimination in working life shall exist.”
• reasonable security in sickness»en rimlig trygghet vid sjukdom, arbetslöshet, arbetsskada och pension.« (party programme ↗)“reasonable security in sickness, unemployment, work injury and pension.”

The plan's basic line is the work line: the benefit line should be replaced by the work line, the systems should assume that it always pays better to work and full-time activity should be required of those living on benefits. Abolishing the rehabilitation chain and widening assessment criteria with age, sex and previous work experience loosens the test of work capacity. The plan therefore speaks against the counter-proposal's demand.

• work line before benefit linedecisive»Där bidragslinjen ersätts av arbetslinjen så att fler kan komma till sin rätt.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Where the benefit line is replaced by the work line so that more can come into their own.”
• systems based on work line»Skatter och bidragssystem ska utgå från arbetslinjen.« (party programme ↗)“Taxes and benefit systems should be based on the work line.”
• incentives to work»De samlade bidragen ska aldrig bli så höga att det inte lönar sig att jobba.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The total benefits should never become so high that it does not pay to work.”
• requirement for activity»Kräva aktivitet på heltid av den som lever på försörjningsstöd« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Require full-time activity from those living on benefit allowance”

The plan explicitly points to serious deficiencies in the rehabilitation chain and that the regulations have been too rigid and led to untenable exclusions from insurance support for seriously ill people. Replacing the chain with an assessment of the insured person's actual condition follows from the requirement for increased flexibility and individualisation. However, introducing gender as a criteria for assessment does not harmonise with the plan's opposition to discrimination based on gender. The committee's reasoning that implemented reforms should be evaluated first is not addressed.

• deficiencies in the rehabilitation chaindecisive»Samtidigt påvisar Riksrevisionen allvarliga brister i rehabiliteringskedjan kopplat till psykisk ohälsa.« (2022 manifesto ↗)“At the same time, the National Audit Office points to serious deficiencies in the rehabilitation chain related to mental health.”
• rigid regulations»Problemet har varit ett regelverk som har varit alltför stelbent och inte anpassat efter dagens förutsättningar« (2022 manifesto ↗)“The problem has been a set of regulations that have been too rigid and not adapted to today's conditions”
• individualised decisions»Öka flexibiliteten och individanpassningen i beslutsfattandet« (2022 manifesto ↗)“Increase flexibility and individualisation in decision-making”
• no discrimination based on gender»Vare sig negativ eller positiv särbehandling på basis av kön, ålder, sexuell läggning, nationalitet eller« (party programme ↗)“Neither negative nor positive discrimination on the basis of gender, age, sexual orientation, nationality or”

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