\nWell the UK government is reminding people just how much they fucking hate disabled people: they’re going to be telling doctors to give out less sick notes to “boost the number of people in work”. Now let’s just remember the number of people signed off sick relative to the working population is functionally negligible, so this policy is targeting one group and one group only: the disabled. This will push people who mustn’t work into work and it will cause deaths.
We are reminded time and time again that the Westminster government is institutionally ableist (among so many other things) and if they could erase disabled people, they would in a heartbeat.
From an American perspective, the fact that your politicians can tell your doctors to ration sick days is not something that makes moving to a single payer medical system seem like an unreservedly positive choice.
they get sick leave?
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