Is there a connection between neoliberalism and health policy? Certainly.
One of the most comforting, and fallacious, assumptions of modern life is that a desired change can be effected and yet leave all our other desired outcomes undisturbed. Neoliberalism and health policy is no exception.
Without neoliberalism we had a fairly satisfactory public health system – at least for its time and place.
Going back to 1975, our system has maintained the delica…
