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Originally From: https://socialeurope.eu/covid-19-didnt-cause-the-care-crisis-privatisation-did ROSA PAVANELLI 8th March 2022 The scandal of Europe’s biggest eldercare operator highlights how a public good has been turned into a private asset class. Her priority is the patient—that might not be true of the company she works for (Alexander Raths / shutterstock.com) Imagine discovering your elderly loved ones in a care home were receiving half-portions of meals, just so a corporation could cut costs and pump up profits. This is just one of many disturbing revelations by the French journalist Victor Castanet from his three-year investigation into Europe’s largest care operator, Orpea. Yet not only patients are paying…