{"title": "Hostage to the Wellbeing Services County | Tere Sammallahti | Negotiator 117", "titleOriginal": "Panttivangiksi hyvinvointialueelle | Tere Sammallahti | Neuvottelija 117", "episodeNumber": "117", "guest": "Tere Sammallahti", "publishedAt": "2022-01-16", "duration": "24:31", "durationIso": "PT24M31S", "youtube": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUhZgTxe9ec", "fiCanonical": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/fi/episodes/149-panttivangiksi-hyvinvointialueelle-tere-sammallahti-neuvotte", "originalLanguage": "fi", "format": "full", "topics": ["finnish_economy_policy", "leadership_governance"], "description": "Tere Sammallahti is a candidate in the West Uusimaa county elections and begins by admitting that he does not like the reform at all: his first campaign theme would have been to cancel it, and since that is no longer politically available, the question becomes how to make a catastrophe tolerable. He calls his own position hostage-taking — if those who want less administration do not stand, the counties go to those who want more. His example of the wrong metric is the nurse staffing ratio, and he opposes a county tax on empirical grounds. The uncomfortable section comes at the end: if services cannot be produced efficiently, something has to be cut.", "chapters": [], "sourceTranscriptType": "none", "subtitleMethod": "none", "provenance": "Owner page assembled from YouTube metadata and the neuvottelija.fi episode record. The publisher published no chapter marks for this episode, so none are listed here. No transcript is published either — the channel has no English caption track for this episode and the Finnish one is YouTube's automatic track. The guest was a candidate in the county elections held on 23 January 2022 when this was recorded on 16 January, so the episode is campaign material in his own words; the nursing profession and the parties he criticises are not represented in it.", "coreTheses": ["Standing for a body you would abolish is a coherent position once abolition is off the table, and the episode is unusually honest about that being the argument.", "A staffing ratio measures inputs, so it is satisfied by hiring rather than by anyone being cared for better — which is why it is the wrong target.", "The case against a county tax here is empirical rather than ideological: it is about what a new taxing power does to spending, not about the level.", "If efficiency does not arrive, the choice is what to cut — stated plainly, which candidates generally avoid."], "slug": "ep117-panttivangiksi-hyvinvointialueelle-tere-sammallahti", "guestsCanonical": ["Tere Sammallahti"], "guestPages": ["https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/guests/tere-sammallahti/"], "page": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep117-panttivangiksi-hyvinvointialueelle-tere-sammallahti/", "markdown": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/podcast/episodes/ep117-panttivangiksi-hyvinvointialueelle-tere-sammallahti/index.md", "captions": null, "transcript": null, "videoId": "yUhZgTxe9ec", "dbId": null, "qaCoveragePct": 0.0, "qaSemanticVerdict": "metadata_only", "aiArticleEn": "https://www.neuvottelija.com/ai/ep117-panttivangiksi-hyvinvointialueelle-tere-sammallahti/", "aiArticleFi": "https://www.neuvottelija.fi/yhteiskunta/ep117-panttivangiksi-hyvinvointialueelle-tere-sammallahti/"}