Left Party seeks to remove private operators from elder care

Sweden’s Left Party wants to establish a “deprivatisation commission” after the election and remove private operators from parts of the welfare system, including elder care, SVT reports.

Party leader Nooshi Dadgostar said private companies, particularly large corporations, dominate elder care in Sweden.

“Elder care has deteriorated over time, and this is one of the reasons,” Dadgostar said at a news conference. “We have lost control of Swedish elder care.”

The party also wants a law allowing public procurement processes to accept bids only from non-profit operators.

“It goes without saying that no care home, nothing, becomes better when you take money from older people and staff and give it to a few wealthy people,” said Alexandra Mattsson, a Left Party municipal councillor in Stockholm.