Health Policies from 1980’s Onwards Ata Soyer In this article, the liberalization tendencies in the health policies in the period after 1980 are dealt with. While keeping track of the major steps of the liberalization process in the health sector it is aimed at delineating the main characteristics of the liberalization tendencies in health services. The main conclusion is that liberalization in health services has both eroded public health services, bringing up some major problems, and caused a transfer of resources from the public sector to private sector, and thus, that a private health sector is emerging with an intense support by the state.