Dismantling of the Puerto Rico Regional Healthcaree System from 1992 until 2004

With the approval of the Puerto Rico Healthcare Reform of 1993, the Public Healthcare System of the island would be privatized to the highest bidder of the private sector or the NGO sector (third sector). This privatization process reached its end with the approval of a new law that prohibited the sale, or transfer of healthcare facilities from the public sector to any of the others. This paper seeks to point out the incidences and events that were part of the total dismantling of the Puerto Rico Regional Healthcare System and the long term consequences it has had for the population.