Healthcare companies' CEO Håkan Tenelius claims that private healthcare is at least as good as public healthcare. There is no problem with extracting profits from companies that are run by tax money. Even that story about the pee diaper isn't true. Tenelius says i Days Media:
- The challenges our welfare system faces are real. They do not disappear because you hide behind myths and ideological agendas. To The myth police needed is a solar map. (sic!) The clearest example is the myth of the peeing diaper, which just like the rat in the pizza spread like a plague/…/.
It doesn't seem to have hit him Tenelius what they called foretagarna in private care actually engages. To keep as much of the tax money as possible for themselves. The tax funds that the companies actually live on. Had everything been reinvested in the business, there would have been no profit to withdraw.
When you still take out a profit then the business becomes worse. It loses in quality. Caregivers are affected. Taxpayers suffer. Here are two examples that dispel the myth about the good of profit in healthcare:
Pediatrician Inge Axelsson in DN
Political science professor Bo Rothstein's debate article in Expressen
Healthcare companies do not belong in healthcare.