The researchers warned that the citizens' restrictive health insurance rules would lead to an increased number of suicides. Nevertheless, the citizens implemented the new rules and have not changed them back despite a majority of the Riksdag deciding so.
The principle cannot be work or die. We have so much abundance, such a high degree of automation and should have so much empathy that we could understand that not everyone can or dares to work.
There must be some rules but the rules that existed before 2006 were strict enough. A few days after the change of government in 2006, the newspapers wrote that we had the third strongest competitiveness in the world in Sweden.
Regardless of all the talk about how important it is to work, this is the reality. This is the inexorable consequence of seriously ill people being forced into a working life that they cannot cope with.