Göran Rosenberg om välfärdsstaten och "systemskiftet".

...aka nedmonteringen:

System change

Thus it happened that in the 1990s Sweden embarked on

one of the most far-reaching privatisation programmes in

the Western world. Publicly financed schools, hospitals,

health clinics and geriatric care were all offered to be run

as business ventures by private investors. No distinction

was made between for-profit and not-for-profit ‘providers’.

Furthermore, private providers of publicly financed

services were free to start new schools and new health

clinics at their discretion. Through free competition for

customers (pupils) and clients (the sick and the elderly)

efficiency would increase and costs would decrease and

there would be better welfare for less money.

This has largely turned out be a political illusion.

After it was discovered that investor-owned schools had

manipulated grades (to attract new customers) and

investor-owned homes for the elderly had understaffed

their operations and mistreated their clients (to reduce

costs and increase profits), there has a been a public

outcry against the excesses of privatisation and the

unrestricted pursuit of profits. Perhaps the most

provocative consequence of the new Swedish system

has been the large-scale entry of private equity firms

into the welfare business. They now do not only own

and run a growing share of the publicly financed school

and welfare systems, but have also managed to squeeze

large profits out of them. Even more provocative have

been the advanced schemes employed to shelter these 

profits from taxation.

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