“As a health economist, you become aware very quickly that we use the healthcare system to treat the consequences of poverty, and we do it in an inefficient and expensive way,” she says. “We wait until people live horrible lives for many years, get sick as a consequence, and then we go in all guns blazing to make things better.”
Source: Canada’s forgotten universal basic income experiment – BBC Worklife
TL;DR: 4 year trial of UBI in Dauphin, MB. One interesting note: employment did not change over the 4-year period. But can it work nationwide?
The professor’s study.
Similar program in Finland.
