Chile's Neoliberal Health Reform: An Assessment and a Critique

The Chilean health system underwent drastic neoliberal reform in the 1980s, with the creation of a dual: public and private health and public and private of health services. • This reform served as a model for World Bank–inspired reforms in like Colombia. • The private part of the Chilean health, including private insurers and providers, is highly inefficient has decreased solidarity between and poor, sick and healthy, and and old. • In spite of serious underfinancing the Pinochet years, the health component remains backbone of the system and is for the good health status the Chilean population. • The Chilean health reform has lessons other countries in Latin America elsewhere: privatisation of health services may not have expected results according to doctrine. On the contrary, may increase unfairness in financing inequitable access to quality care.