The provision of health care within the past two decades have illustrated that industrialized countries have all undergone extreme changes in order to combat the ever-changing demands of health care. Now more than ever since the budget-cutting and privatization began around 1970 with the election of Ronald Regan from the United States and Margaret Thatcher from the United Kingdom, who vowed to reduce spending expenditures for public services and their privatization (Morgan & England, 1988). Since than numerous nations have national health systems in place that cover almost if not all its population, the advancement in medical technology today have made health insurance increasingly expensive which have lead governments to seek cost-effective …show more content…
Many definitions of neoliberalism describe it as a set of polices that come to favour a reduction of the role of the state in the delivery of social services. This means a decline in state budget as well as tighter limits on public health care expenses, deregulations of markets which allow entry of corporate health business to operate more freely and the forcing of user fees even in the poorest countries and health care to the private sector (Terris, 1992). Scientific studies have illustrated that polices pertaining to neoliberalism have translated to ongoing elimination of rights related to health as well as other social …show more content…
Within the developed countries financial arrangements usually determined which individuals were able to afford private health services when they needed it. Sometimes due to pressures of cost recovery public amenities frequently require some form of user fees, but within the private-sector health institutions that are mostly for-profit usually charge much higher than that of public sector institutions (Chapman, 2014). In addition, poor countries with private health care institutions at the primary level of care usually pay an upfront cost at point of service, this approach make it the least equitable regarding financing and preventing millions of people from accessing services. In many of the developed countries like Sweden, Norway, Canada, Denmark, New Zealand, England and Italy who are committed to universal health coverage reduce Dierect payments for private health services through underwriting the basic costs of medically necessary physician and hospital services and through general tax revenues (Ooms, Marten, Waris, Hammonds, Malumba & Friedman, 2014). However, these arrangements do not necessary protect people from paying high costs for private health services. The word health organization (WHO) declares that the reliance on the Dierect payment stems from governments unwilling to spend more on health, it also concludes that several countries enact some sort of direct