Patients with strange diseases are hit economically, in Denmark's socialised health system:
politiken.dk (use Google Translate)
The Danish law about sick leave money says, that you cannot get more sick-leave money after 52 weeks, if there is no diagnose. This means, that after 52 weeks, the patient is transferred to the social help system, where the money is significantly less, if there is no diagnose. However, if the patient lives in a marriage with a certain minimum amount, or has a fortunate (cash or a house), no money is given.
However, with arthritis, there are sometimes very complex diagnoses where it takes more than a year to set the correct diagnose, so this means that some patients get into financial problems, and may end up selling their house. The problem now affects 0.2% of the population each year.
Communes have previously been more flexible with the requirement for diagnose on arthritis patients, but since the financial crisis, they have required the diagnose, so the problem is increasing. The Danish health care minister answered, that she does not want to remove the 52 week limit. |
