Putting the Neoliberal Transformation of Turkish Healthcare System and Its Problems into a Historical Perspective

Konuralp, Emrah; Bicer, Sermin

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“…Therefore, unsurprisingly, the explicit neoliberal orientation of the HTP in Turkey was infused with the thrust of privatisation. On the other hand, neoliberal structural adjustment policies aiming to "free" market mechanisms from the political domain and cope with (supposed/perceived) market failures well as crises like climate change paradoxically require state power (Gürçam, 2022;Gürçam, Konuralp and Ekici, 2021;Konuralp, 2020;Konuralp and Bicer, 2021). This paradox expresses the indispensability of the public nature of the relations of production in today's world.…”

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Assessing the Health-economic Crisis: The Case of Turkey

Dayıoğlu

2022

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With the transition to neoliberalism, health has tended to be less regarded as a social obligation and become instead an individual responsibility. Hence, the issue of healthcare has gained a "health-economic" character by increasingly integrating health systems into the existing economic situation and market dynamics. Introduced in the 2000s, the Health Transformation Program (HTP) represents such an approach in Turkey. This article reports on field research carried out in Istanbul into the consequences of the HTP through a survey focusing on healthcare facility preferences and perceptions of the most critical problems of the healthcare system. The survey was carried out in 2019 with 5002 participants aged 25-65 using the face-to-face technique and frequency and Pearson chi-square analyses to summarise the findings. The privatisation trend is shown by public-toprivate comparisons of health expenditures, hospital beds and admissions to hospitals, while the shift toward private hospitals is mitigated by participant preferences for the public healthcare schema, which remains the central pillar of the system. This preference is mainly based on the economical services provided in public hospitals, while the shift to the private system is argued to be largely impelled by increased patient density in the public system resulting from the neoliberal logic of the HTP. In conclusion, the need for a new reform program that will invest in the public nature of the Turkish health system is identified and addressed.

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Assessing the Health-economic Crisis: The Case of Turkey

Dayıoğlu

2022

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“…While maintaining its hegemony, the neoliberal thought system uses the doctrine of double reality. Thus, the fake reality offered to shape and mislead society's perception, and the fact presented to the neoliberal companies' global elite never overlap (Konuralp and Bicer, 2021;Mirowski, 2013). One of the most common ways of penetrating social consciousness by turning reality inside out is greenwashing, which exploits people's environmental concerns to show climate-damaging companies as if they were environmentalists.…”

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The Neoliberal Initiative of the Aviation Industry to Fight the Climate Crisis: Greenwashing

GÜRÇAM¹

2022

International Journal of Environment and Geoinformatics

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The global climate crisis deepening rapidly and turning into a severe security problem requires a global struggle. In this regard, the United Nations has initiated comprehensive negotiations for a long time, but the process has not achieved the desired level of success. Behind this failure lie neoliberalism and its institutions that dominate the global economic system. The aviation sector with rapid growth potential develops around the aggressive strategies of neoliberalism. The developments in the aviation sector naturally affect the climate negatively at an increasing rate. In this context, the aviation industry adopting the policy of pretending to be environmentalist has ignored or covered up the environmental impacts to escape the pressure of the climate crisis and continued to grow around the deregulation principle of neoliberalism. This situation, called greenwashing, has been well adopted by the aviation industry. This study deals with greenwashing, a strategic approach that the aviation industry has implemented against other environmental problems, especially climate crises. The study has revealed that the innovative projects of the aviation industry, such as electric airplanes, hydrogen-powered airplanes, biofuel studies, high-efficiency, are highly nonfunctional. In conclusion, the study has emphasized that the aviation industry is not as innocent as pretended; the attempts to hide the sector-based pollution effects are unrealistic, and the sector-related climate crisis continues to increase.

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“…Halihazırda IMF, Dünya Bankası, Dünya Ticaret Örgütü gibi Washington Konsensüsü kurumlarının teşviki, desteği ve zorlamasıyla dünyanın birçok yerinde sağlıkta da neoliberal dönüşüm programları uygulamaya konulmuş ve özellikle yoksul kitleler piyasanın insafına terk edilmiştir. Ulus-devletin ekonomik ve sosyal alanda piyasa mekanizmasının hatalarına karşı daha etkin ve müdahaleci rol üstlenmesini savunan savaş sonrası dönemin gömülü liberalizmine karşı küresel elitin doktrini olan neoliberalizmin ulusal egemenlikleri aşındırmasının bir yöntemi olarak anti-sosyal devlet politikaları, kamusal hizmetlerin piyasa aktörlerine ve "yardımseverler"in filantropik çalışmalarına bırakılmaktadır (Konuralp, 2021;Konuralp ve Bicer, 2021).…”

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COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Elite and New Order

Yilmaz¹

2021

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Actors ruling the world are not states or international institutions such as the United Nations but the global elite aiming to establish a single world government for the last two centuries. Those elites called global capital are structured in a dark nobility of Western world families, leading by Rockefeller and Rothschilds. Institutions like CFR, Bilderberg, Chatham House are the top instruments of the decision-making mechanism of those elites. In the 1990s, Bill Gates, who mainly in the computer business at those times, started a new study of Genetically Modified Organisms and vaccines to serve the global elite. COVID-19 we have faced today is the latest product of pandemic experiments such as MERS, SARS, H1N1. Their goal is to enforce the people to accept the digital identity through vaccination, dissolve the national economies by lockdowns, and ensure the transition into a single world government. In this study, this plan is unveiled with its details and the meaning of the big beginning.

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Putting the Neoliberal Transformation of Turkish Healthcare System and Its Problems into a Historical Perspective

Cited by 9 publications

References 57 publications

Assessing the Health-economic Crisis: The Case of Turkey

Assessing the Health-economic Crisis: The Case of Turkey

The Neoliberal Initiative of the Aviation Industry to Fight the Climate Crisis: Greenwashing

COVID-19 Pandemic, Global Elite and New Order

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