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Note from LeftEast editors. We reached out to one of the authors of a recent and timely study “Social Consequences of Privatization of Healthcare” written by Beka Natsvlishvili, Nodar Kapanadze, and Sopo Japaridze (Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, Tbilisi Office, October 2022). Another coauthor of the study and LeftEast editorial board member Sopo Japaridze translated the text from Georgian.
In this report you periodize neoliberal reforms in healthcare into four eras – toying with neoliberalism, militant neoliberalism, soft neoliberalism, and neoliberalism without conviction (current).