The Dynamics of Commercial Health Care in the Lebanon

Kasturi Sen and Abla Mehio-Sibai

Chapter 5 in Commercialization of Health Care, 2005, pp 66-83 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Public health systems worldwide have experienced rapid commercialization conflicting with the socially based values of public provision. The ideological rationale underpinning these changes combines claims of market efficiency with a notion of ‘consumer’ interests that may be better served by markets than state health services (World Bank 1993; Newbrander 1997). This neoliberal paradigm has to a considerable extent usurped and transformed the notion of ‘the public’ and of ‘civil society’ into a collection of individual consumers and providers.

Keywords: Private Insurance; Health Expenditure; Mutual Fund; Public Provision; Public Health Expenditure (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1057/9780230523616_5

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