In the last two decades, the Chilean health sector suffered a deep reform, establishing a new scheme with two sectors: the public health insurance and many private health insurance companies. This essay analyzes an especial outcome in the Chilean health insurance sector: the majority of the...

Since the middle of 1997, a health reform in the Peruvian social security system was implemented in order to improve the efficiency in the sector, to raise the quality of its services, and to extend its coverage to uncovered sectors, within a framework solidarity and equality. However, after...