Private Health Insurance and the European Union

Research has paid little attention to date on how European Union law and regulation affect both the public-private mix in healthcare and the organization of private health insurance as an industry. Filling this gap, this collective book provides insights on the political economy of EU insurance regulation, its impact on private health insurers and on its interactions with domestic healthcare policy-making in four countries. Assembling original contributions drafted by a multidisciplinary team, Private Health Insurance and the European Union offers a thorough examination of a largely unrecognized source of EU influence in healthcare and sheds a new light on the role played by private actors in social policy.
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Examines EU law and regulation on private health insurance at a national and supra-national level Explains how and why EU legislation has often collided with incompatible legislation in member states Shows how health insurance has become increasingly important and connected to EU policy-making

Autorentext

Cyril Benoît is CNRS Researcher in Political Science at the Centre for European Studies and Comparative Politics, Sciences Po, Paris, France.

Marion Del Sol is Full Professor of Law at the University of Rennes 1, France, and a Research Fellow at the West Institute - Law and Europe (IODE).

Philippe Martin is CNRS Research Professor of Law at the Centre for Comparative Labour Law and Social Security (COMPTRASEC), University of Bordeaux, France.

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Chapter 1: Introduction: The European Union, the Insurance Industry and the Public-Private Mix in Healthcare.- Part 1: The Political Roots of EU Insurance Legislation.- Chapter 2: Insurance Directives and the Single Market: towards a trivialization of Private Health Insurance?.- Chapter 3: Solvency II, the European Government of Insurance Industry and Private Health Insurance.- Part 2: The Impact of the European Union Private Health Insurance.- Chapter 4: The Uncertain and Differentiated Impact of EU Law on National (private) Health Insurance Regulations.- Chapter 5: An increasing homogenisation of Private Health Insurers under Solvency II?.- Part 3: Shifting the public-private mix in healthcare? Multifaceted paths towards Europeanization.- Chapter 6: Private Health Insurance in Belgium: Marketization Crowded Out?.- Chapter 7: Europeanised, marketised but still governed by the State? Private Health Insurance in France.- Chapter8: Ireland: The Ambiguous Role of the Health Insurance Market.- Chapter 9: The Dutch Way: Experimenting with Competition in the Healthcare system.- Chapter 10: In between the market and public health insurance: a place for occupational welfare in Europe?