Subject(s): Health care reform. -- Health care reform in Cross-cultural studies. -- Medical policy in Cross-cultural studies. -- Restructuring health services- public subsidy of private provision -- Conceptual and legislative framework : Restructuring health services and polices of privatization, trading healthcare away- WTO's general agreement on trade in services GATS, ethics and medical care in globalizing world -- Process of change : Assessing health systems performance- critical appraisal WHO, multinational corporations and pattern of privatization in healthcare -- health system solidarity and European community polices -- Case studies of restructuring - comparative perspective : Impact of social health insurence reform on social solidarity in four European countries, restructuring health services in Italy- paradox of devolution, global capital and healthcare reform in UK, trouble with conservative healthcare counter reforms in Spain, sad experience of corporate healthcare in USA, transformation of Cuban health sector, political economy of healthcare reform in Malaysia, implementing universal healthcare coverage in Thailand, role of state in privatization and corporatization of medical care in Andhra Pradesh India