Neoliberalism and its relevance to health professions

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NEOLIBERALISM AND HOW IS IT RELEVANT TO HEALTH PROFESSIONS
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WHAT IS NEOLIBERALISM AND HOW IS IT RELEVANT TO HEALTH
PROFESSIONS?
With the changes in economic environment, people are facing several issues. Back to its roots
in 19th century when the classical liberalism was all profound, neoliberalism rose currently as
the revamped version of the same classical liberalism. This neoliberalism aspect gained its
momentum and large policies have been framed by government in the society. This topic has
been mostly discussed in health care IT professional. It is framed of two words, where neo
means new and liberal means free from the intervention of government. It is largely a policy
structure that enables the transmission of economic factor control from the public sector to
the private sector. It is based on the idea of bringing a revolution in the whole economy by
changing the way policies are now framed and intended. The idea is to reduce the deficit
spending by government, limiting subsidies, reform tax laws, make free trade happen and
limit protectionism. The belief is to open up markets to let the trade happen freely and bring a
halt to the power of state and government over the economy. Unlike liberalism, neoliberalism
is not a political philosophy focusing of social, economic or political aspects (Venugopal,
2015). Neoliberalism is a complete economic philosophy. The current essay is all about the
relevancy of the concept of neoliberalism to the health professions (Eagleton-Pierce, 2016).
However, with the changes in time and ramified external factors, the concept of
Neoliberalism also changes in society.
Due to the recent neoliberal trends and the design and implementation of health care reforms,
the government intervention in the health care sector has minimalized and the sector is facing
serious negative effects from market forces. With the advent of neo-liberal thought process,
health care is now looked as a private good to be sold in the market. Instead of a patient, now
the person taking the health care services is seen as a customer to whom the good of health
care is sold like any other commodity (Cohen, & Reinhardt, 2017). Along with the citizens,
the neoliberal attacks on health care have ruined things for the employees in government
health care being the health professionals. Neoliberalism has created the idea of free market
but it has somehow vanished the thought of right to health. With the government decision of
spending less on the health care of the population, the underprivileged sections of society that
have less access to markets stand deprived of proper health care facilities (Schrecker, 2016).
The main outcomes to mitigate these issues would be related to adoption of idea of
professionalism by the health and other human service professionals.