Sweden had the lead to 2009 an extremely well-functioning pharmacy system. Medicines could be ordered from other pharmacies. The pharmacies were obliged to keep medicines in stock. Since 2010, however, it is, in practice, free for individual traders to open pharmacies.
The results have not made to wait. Nowadays, pharmacies sell, among other things chocolate, ice cream and makeup. It is problems with stocking, despite a late-introduced common system. Public Health Minister Gabriel Wikström says in Aftonbladet:
"- There are problems with inventory management. With increasingly expensive drugs, you have to realize that even for a small pharmacy, it is a risk to sit on expensive drugs that you don't get paid for until arrears. There is a problem here, the investigation must look into it."
The Union rewrites how the staff because of the profit requirements increasingly pressed.
There were more pharmacy. Of questionable quality. But mostly in urban areas. The growth analysis authority type:
"No new pharmacy has been established in areas with low or very low accessibility to urban areas."
In conclusion: the quality was in, pretty much all areas, worse. But private companies were allowed to play business. Good for them. Bad for the citizens. At risk to people's lives.