Healthcare, borders, and boundaries: Crossborder health markets and the entrepreneurial state

Responding to arguments that states are strongly constrained by global capital, this article uses the concept of the entrepreneurial state to analyze the ways states create crossborder health markets. The article, combined with the others in this special issue, provide three key findings. First, we find that the territorially bound nature of much domestic health policy is being challenged by international integration in a growing number of sectors. Second, we find that crossborder legal frameworks in place to govern markets are extensive but not sufficient to decide questions of global health. Finally, we conclude that states matter in crossborder health because they shape rules that govern markets. Although states are challenged by global capital mobility and global regulatory frameworks, they are still capable of shaping crossborder health markets and should be held accountable for protecting the public from the risks that to health that these markets can create.