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by Freak_NL 3453 days ago
> For others, X will not be enough for their medical care necessary to survive for two weeks.

Finland (like much of Europe) has universal healthcare and a national health insurance plan; this is not an issue. There already is an 'X' that people can (adequately) survive on when on welfare. If basic income is something that a state wants to research in earnest, these kind of experiments provide valuable data and can be seen as a tentative first step towards a national basic income plan.