The Neoliberal Concept of Bulgarian Healthcare: Diversity or Cognitive Dissonance

Elka Todorova () and Emilia Chengelova ()
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Elka Todorova: University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria
Emilia Chengelova: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, BAS, Sofia, Bulgaria

Nauchni trudove, 2022, issue 5, 165-179

Abstract: The paper examines the issue of the neoliberal nature of Bulgarian health care system, which introduced at once and in non-gradual way, formed varieties of combined neoliberal and anti-neoliberal theses. This is tracked in an analysis of data from ISSP surveys in Bulgaria (2021, 2022) regarding health care inequalities. Since the two surveys use certain identical questions, comparisons were made related to the performance and attitudes towards health care, vaccination, the role of the state authorities, etc. The results defend the thesis that neoliberal attitudes to health care are bend to nonliberal expectations in a way that exemplifies a type of “roll back†neoliberalism (Peck 2002).

Keywords: neoliberalism; health care; health care attitudes; health inequalities; income inequalities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: H57 H75 L12 L13 L14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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