Health Care Service Reform in Colombia

Abstract

This paper aims to provide a general overview of the health care sector reform in Colombia, which introduced the market principles of competition into the sector functioning. Therefor, this article analyzes its antecedents, characteristics and consequences. Relying on the interpretation of the empirical evidence existing about this reform, the present analysis seeks to identify the key features on which it is based. The paper ends with some observations and criticism about the results and the development of the health care sector in Colombia up to 2005.Health Care Sector Reform; assurance; health care market competition; efficiency; Ley 100 de 1993