If universal coverage can work anywhere, it should be Sweden, a small, homogenous nation where poverty is virtually unknown. Yet worsening problems continue to degrade the quality of service there // according to European think tank Health Consumer Powerhouse (HCP) in its Euro-Canada Health Consumer Index 2008:
...private health care providers have an incentive to cut waiting times, lest they lose customers to the competition. Government providers have no such motivation.
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Waiting times for care, long a problem in Sweden and too often deadly wherever they're found, are now the longest on the Continent....rather than deal with long waits, they're opting for private care, which got a boost from limited reform in the 1990s. In private care, patients self-regulate and put less stress on the system.
While Sweden excels at medical outcomes, its accessibility to and quality of service are bad and worsening.
...private health care providers have an incentive to cut waiting times, lest they lose customers to the competition. Government providers have no such motivation.
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