The last decades of the 20th century have seen deep transformations in OCDE health care organizations (Anderson, 2012). As a part of the neo-liberal trend, mercantilism and privatizing policies -that have been advancing for years- have been more intensified in the wake of austerity, bringing health care commodification and privatization as a social and public health issues of special relevance (Karanikolos, et al., 2013; Stuckler & Basu, 2013). In such a way, at the height of the Great Recession, the crisis scenario has been the "perfect excuse" to sharpen the introduction of market criteria in operation and management of public administration (Oliver, 2005). And consequently, as a concomitant process, there has been a progressive increase
