This article intends an approach with some of the changes in course in the health system, specifically the private supplier of health services, that comes maintaining along the last decades decisive weight in the conduction of the health policy. In that sense, it imports to show the different modalities under which this sector interferes the private initiative in the installment of health services, showing the more important changes in the relationship between the public and the private sectors, tending as counterpoint the context of the decades of 70 and 80. Some of those modalities are constituted, actually, an consolidation of patterns and present tendencies since the seventies, as the section that integrates the insurance companies of health and the group medicine companies. Other, as the performance of the medical cooperatives close to the public section, they are shown as tendencies in expansion in a conjuncture of fiscal crisis of the state and the decrease of the investments in the social field.
Healthcare policy; Public/private relationship