This paper deals with Michel Foucault's concept of biopolitics, i.e. its neoliberal version and the way in which the population is governed by specific techniques of power. Starting with the concept of biopower, which along with liberalism as the art of government takes shape at the beginning of the eighteenth century, it is described how, due to significant social changes such as industrial development and population growth, it was necessary to establish new techniques of power that will maintain the productivity of the population, primarily dealing with its biological life, in which medicine plays a significant role. Furthermore, the development of the market leads to the issue of individual freedoms and limiting the power of the state. State opens up a space for market, and its power is focused on the production of a productive population, on preserving freedom, but also security. But after the great social crises that characterized the twentieth century, such a role of the state is increasingly being questioned. With the emergence of neoliberal theory, which was gaining more and more space with the help of various interest groups, there is an increasing privatization of public goods, and even more emphasis is placed on "relieving" the state of responsibility for individuals, in order to reduce it's costs as much as possible. The discourse of neoliberal ideology is focused on the individuals as the bearers of responsibility - they are the ones who should provide themselves with security and freedom. Therefore, biopolitics as a technique of power that governs people as a population has acquired a new, privatized form. It has an increasing role in the private sphere of life, in which individuals assess and respond to the risks and dangers they might face, which includes ways to preserve their own health. These ways are dictated by the market with the help of the state. The consequences of the privatization of public services such as healthcare are particularly visible in countries that once guaranteed insurance for their residents. This mostly applies to post-socialist countries, including Croatia. Systematic privatization of the healthcare system failed to relieve state from costs, but led to an even greater burden on healthcare, which is evident in the lack of medical staff and all the longer waiting lists, lack of hospital equipment and so on. Healthcare was caught in such a state by the coronavirus pandemic, during which it became obvious that systematic individualization and privatization are unsustainable. The entire population faced a situation in which the most necessary were mechanisms that would provide security to as many people as possible, given that individual security in a pandemic and other high-risk situations depends on collective security.