Expert: Consolidations unlikely to solve well-being services counties’ financial woes

CONSOLIDATIONS are not a silver bullet to the financial woes of well-being services counties in Finland, Mika Kortelainen, a professor of health economics at the University of Turku and research professor at the Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL), estimates in an interview with Helsingin Sanomat.

Debate over means to solidify the financial standing of counties has heated up over the past month or so as the counties have presented revised projections of their budget deficits for this year.