Healthcare Spending Cuts Announced To Create Savings

In a bid to cut public spending, the Danish government has announced an austerity package aimed at creating savings of at least DKK24bn (US$3.87bn). The plan includes modifications to Denmark's unemployment benefits scheme (one of the most generous in the world) - with the time a person can claim unemployment benefits to be slashed from four to two years. Additionally, overall family welfare payments will be capped, with tax breaks for the wealthy cancelled and ministerial salaries cut by

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