The Truth About SwedenCare
07/10/13 - Klaus Bernpaintner [edited]
Free healthcare in Sweden was intended only for the poor and supposedly would not affect the practices of existing providers.
When government offered a free alternative, many left their private doctor in favor of the free services. The public system had to be expanded, and private doctors lost patients. Private doctors were forced to take employment within the public system or leave
the profession. The result is a public healthcare monolith.
Are there economies of scale? If so, they are dwarfed by the inefficiencies of the bureaucracy that grew to manage the system.
Very few private practices remain. Most of those are part of the national insurance system. A huge bureaucracy has been erected to take on all the necessary central planning of public and pseudo-private healthcare.