Sweden Announces Increased Health Care Funding in 2025 Budget

(Bloomberg) -- Sweden’s government announced new measures totaling more than 3 billion kronor ($293 million) to strengthen the country’s health-care system, which will be included in a 2025 budget bill set to be submitted later this month.

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The funding includes a 2 billion-krona contribution to local governments that are in charge of health care, and brings total health-care measures in next year’s budget to 18 billion kronor, Health Care Minister Acko Ankarberg said at a news conference in Stockholm on Friday.

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