"We patients become commodities in an open market"

The long care queues make it easy for people who need to see several different specialists to make a diagnosis.  

70-year-old Lena Strand from Luleå is one of those who have waited a long time to have surgery for problems after an old birth injury.

Now she has received a referral to Uppsala and one to Piteå.

- We patients become commodities in an open market that can not accept us fully.

It also makes us feel lost, she says in Sweden meet live in Luleå.

"The system is incorrectly built"

Many regions have problems with long care queues.

But compared to several other countries, Sweden still has a relatively large number of doctors and nurses, says doctor Göran Stiernstedt.

- In many other countries, care queues are an unknown concept.

There must be something wrong with the system.

I want to claim that it is largely an administrative problem, says Göran Stiernstedt, chairman of Karolinska Institutet, state investigator and doctor.

Watch the entire debate on the healthcare crisis on SVT Play.