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Last broadcast on Mon, 10 Nov 2008, 20:00 on BBC Radio 4.
Synopsis
As the government unveil a tough new benefits system for the sick, Dr Ben Goldacre explores the parlous state of the incapacity benefits system, an eight billion pound legacy created by party politics and unthinking medics.
Ben discovers that, after being on incapacity benefit for more than two years, you are statistically more likely to die or retire than ever find work again. He asks how this can have been allowed to happen and considers whether the new government plans will help.
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Mon 10 Nov 200820:00
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