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While private hospitals increased, numbers of intensive care beds fell, as they are less profitable for private companies (Photo: gob.mx)

First Covid, now McKinsey - how austerity hit EU healthcare

Health & Society

by Olivier Hoedeman, Brussels,

From hospitals to care homes, the outsourcing and privatisation of healthcare – in combination with various austerity policies promoted by the European Commission during the past decade – have significantly degraded EU member states' capacity to deal effectively with COVID-19 - needlessly costing extra lives.

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Olivier Hoedeman is a researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory.

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While private hospitals increased, numbers of intensive care beds fell, as they are less profitable for private companies (Photo: gob.mx)

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Olivier Hoedeman is a researcher at Corporate Europe Observatory.

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