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Competition Policy in Healthcare

Frontiers in Insurance-based and Taxation-funded Systems

Book | 1st edition 2019 | Mary Guy
Description

This book brings a unique, comparative approach to competition policy in healthcare. By examining an insurance-based and a taxation-funded healthcare system, insights emerge into the applicability and application of general competition law and healthcare-specific competition rules at EU and Member State level. The developing interactions between healthcare regulators and competition authorities, and issues arising from hospital mergers with regard to general and healthcare-specific merger control both receive in-depth analysis.

Insights into competition reforms in the Dutch and English healthcare systems show that the term “healthcare” is problematic: there are important distinctions between public and private healthcare, and between healthcare providers and healthcare purchasers. Even a focus on “healthcare providers” has limitations given the myriad services which comprise healthcare delivery. Competition reforms in healthcare attract controversy if seen exclusively as an end in themselves. This book argues that a nuanced approach is needed: competition in healthcare needs to be tempered, and even focused, by national and EU commitments to solidarity.

Following Brexit, scholars and policy makers will maintain interest in comparative and EU law research. This book will thus be essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the mutual implications of EU competition law and policy for developing national healthcare reforms.

Dr Mary Guy is a Lecturer in Law at Lancaster Law School and is directing the law component of a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust–funded interdisciplinary project on ‘EU Health Policy and Law – Shaping a Future Research Agenda’ in 2018-2020. She is a member of the European Association of Health Law, the Society of Legal Scholars, the Socio-Legal Studies Association, the British Association of Comparative Law, and the Chartered Institute of Linguists Educational Trust.

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Type of product Book
Format Hardback
EAN / ISSN 9781780686493 / 9781780687926
Weight 685 g
Status Available
Number of pages xl
Access to exercice No
Publisher Intersentia
Language English
Publication Date Jan 11, 2019
Available on Jurisquare No
Available on Strada Belgique No
Available on Strada Europe No
Available on Strada Luxembourg No
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  • Table of contents and preliminary pages
    Mary Guy
  • Introduction
    Mary Guy
  • Chapter 1. Competition Reforms in Dutch and English Healthcare and the Development of Competition Policy
    Mary Guy
  • Chapter 2. Competition Law: Its Applicability and Application in Dutch and English Healthcare
    Mary Guy
  • Chapter 3. Sectoral Regulation: The Relationship between the Competition Authority and the Healthcare Regulator in the Netherlands and England
    Mary Guy
  • Chapter 4. Merger Control: Hospital Mergers, General Merger Control and the Development of 'Healthcare-Specific' Merger Control in the Netherlands and England
    Mary Guy
  • Conclusion
    Mary Guy