Kevin Skerrett is a senior research officer assigned to pensions for a public sector union based in Ottawa, Canada. He just completed a term as visiting professor at the Institute of Political Economy at Carleton University. He is coeditor of The Contradictions of Pension Fund Capitalism.

01.12.2021

• Kevin Skerrett

The Pension-Fund Profiteers Are Making a Killing From Long-Term Care

Canada’s pension funds are profiting from financialized long-term care while widespread negligence is killing residents. It’s time to take the company that is behind this rapacious profiteering into public ownership and fully socialize Canada’s health care system.