2026-04-222025/26:SoU16 · p.9SoUHealth & social services
Private health insurance
The role of private health insurance in publicly funded healthcare
What's at stake: A ban would stop people with private health insurance from jumping the queue in publicly funded care, while waiting keeps the current arrangement of privately financed supplementary care in place pending more knowledge about its effects.
Case texts and AI reasoning are AI-translated from the Swedish originals; the Swedish text is authoritative.
What the vote decides
The question is whether the government should move to ban private health insurance that provides faster access to publicly funded care, or whether the matter should wait for the ongoing government analysis of the effects of privately financed care.
Yes Yes — the committee proposal
The committee points to an ongoing government assignment that is already mapping and analyzing the consequences of privately financed care, including any need for regulation, and therefore rejects the motions calling for a ban on private health insurance.
No No — the reservations
Reservation 13 (S, V, MP)
The reservation wants the government to ban private health insurance within publicly funded care, for example by preventing providers under contract with a region from giving insured patients shorter waiting times than the statutory care guarantee, since medical need rather than the size of one's wallet should determine who receives care first.
Summarised from the committee report. Party labels in the summary come from the report, not from the vote.
V–
S–
MP–
C–
L–
KD–
M–
SD–
YesNoAbstainAbsent
What do the votes mean here?
Yes The committee proposal: rejecting the motions (keeping things as they are).
No Backing the counter-proposal: reservation 13 by S, V, MP.
Abstain The party marks a position of its own that is not one of the two final alternatives.
The plan's stance / Actual vote
AI
Vote
Confidence
Evidence
Vown reservation
–
No 0/16/0/6
Sown reservation
–
No 0/90/0/16
MPown reservation
–
No 0/13/0/5
C
–
Yes 20/0/0/4
L
–
Yes 11/0/0/5
KD
–
Yes 14/0/0/5
M
–
Yes 55/0/0/11
SD
–
Yes 60/0/0/10
Committee proposal
The Riksdag rejects the motions
2025/26:2777 by Nooshi Dadgostar et al. (V) demand 15 and
2025/26:3645 by Fredrik Lundh Sammeli et al. (S) demand 37.
Original (Swedish)
Riksdagen avslår motionerna
2025/26:2777 av Nooshi Dadgostar m.fl. (V) yrkande 15 och
2025/26:3645 av Fredrik Lundh Sammeli m.fl. (S) yrkande 37.
Riksdag decision: The Riksdag rejected 176 proposals in motions about healthcare organisation from the general motion period 2025. The proposals concern, among other things, healthcare organisation and financing, privatisation and the law on freedom-of-choice systems, accessible and equitable care, mental health in adults, children and young people, and comorbidity.
The Riksdag refers primarily to ongoing work.
Counter-proposals
The counter-proposal wants to replace the efficiency delegation with an equity delegation. (S, V, MP) — Reservation 13
Motion 2025/26:1325 — Åtgärder för att förhindra att den offentligt drivna primärvården avvecklas genom bolagisering och utförsäljning av Sanna Backeskog m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1340 — Nationellt psykiatrilyft - hela vårdkedjan, hela landet av Sanna Backeskog m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:1634 — Lagen om valfrihetssystem av Markus Kallifatides m.fl. (S)
Motion 2025/26:171 — Politik för äldres rättigheter och välmående av Nadja Awad m.fl. (V)
Motion 2025/26:1781 — Skärpta möjligheter till tvångsvård för farliga personer av Jan Ericson (M)
Motion 2025/26:2035 — Synen och sjukvårdssystemet av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:205 — Husläkare och artificiell intelligens av Josef Fransson (SD)
Motion 2025/26:2077 — Samverkan kring psykiatrisk vård av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:2157 — Ambulansflyg och ambulanshelikoptrar av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:2205 — Upplåtelseavtal med fokus på kvinnohälsa av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:2211 — Kvalitetssäkring av ambulanssjukvården av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)
Motion 2025/26:230 — Uppsökande verksamhet och hembesök som förstahandsalternativ inom barn- och ungdomspsykiatrin av Johnny Svedin (SD)
Motion 2025/26:238 — Omvårdnad och terapeutisk behandling som första åtgärd inom bup av Johnny Svedin (SD)
Motion 2025/26:2427 — Kvinnors valfrihet och rätt till vård av Merit Frost Lindberg m.fl. (M)
Motion 2025/26:2433 — Diskriminering av kvinnors företagande av Merit Frost Lindberg m.fl. (M)
Motion 2025/26:2448 — Sammanhållen vård för multisjuka av Ann-Sofie Lifvenhage (M)