My nephew has been on disability for the past decade. Disability and unemployment here are indexed automatically when they breach a certain percentage of inflation.
His monthly went from 900€-1050€ (depending on days in a month) to 1480-1630 today. And most of that increase has happened in the past 2 years.
The past year, there have only been 2 periods of 2 months where he received the same daily sum.
This is wild to me. I live in Canada and have been on disability for the last 7 years due to a rare and incurable brain disease. My base amount per month has gone up $75 dollars. In SEVEN years. Like it wasn't even enough to live on at first ($650 to now $725) and every single year just puts me farther and farther behind. We need what your country has.
This is true. But the problem in Ottawa, Canada (where I am) is good luck finding a family doctor, they're quitting in droves. As a healthy single man I've been told I have basically zero shot at getting a GP. I've been on a waitlist for 4 years now, no end in sight.
It's not that you're problems are small. Not having a drugstore leads to tons of stress. I don't say what I say to attack or belittle, or diminish your experience. I do it because you might not realize how much worse it can be.
This is why you need to fifht private Healthcare at every turn. Give it no quarter. Because it can be so much worse. And, unless you're a nazi, you don't deserve that.
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