Social care and medical aid.

One main point in today's discussion about handicapped people, and maybe especially children, in Sweden recently is that they should not be also socially and economically handicapped. Therefore the government in 1986 passed a new law, through which it was possible to put pressure on the local authorities to take more extensive responsibility for the handicapped and their social situation. But the state in itself also has this responsibility. This law is a "plus"-law. It shall add what is necessary for the individual to be able to live a life as normal as possible. This paper is a review of what effect this approach may have in a specific situation.