[Comment] Offline: Watching the watchers (part 2)

The chief threat to health systems, according to Global Health Watch 7 (GHW7), comes from privatisation, financialisation, and corporatisation, trends that have only accelerated in recent decades, especially in Majority World settings. We surely all see examples in our own countries—the transfer of public assets to the private sector, the creation of public–private partnerships, and chronic resource starvation that forces people into the arms of private health providers. Financialisation implies an increasing role for markets in health care and the metamorphosis of health systems from services to tradable assets.