Private Health Insurance and the European Union: EU Legislation at the National Level

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. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Front Matter ....Pages i-xiii Introduction: The European Union, the Insurance Industry and the Public-Private Mix in Healthcare (Cyril Benoît, Marion Del Sol, Philippe Martin)....Pages 1-26 Front Matter ....Pages 27-27 Insurance Directives and the Single Market: Towards a Trivialisation of Private Health Insurance? (Gaël Coron, Marion Del Sol)....Pages 29-54 Solvency II, the European Government of Insurance Industry and Private Health Insurance (Cyril Benoît)....Pages 55-82 Front Matter ....Pages 83-83 The Uncertain and Differentiated Impact of EU Law on National (Private) Health Insurance Regulations (Philippe Martin, Marion Del Sol)....Pages 85-127 An Increasing Homogenisation of Private Health Insurers Under Solvency II? (Philippe Abecassis, Nathalie Coutinet)....Pages 129-159 Front Matter ....Pages 161-161 Private Health Insurance in Belgium: Marketization Crowded Out? (Cyril Benoît, Marion Del Sol)....Pages 163-189 Europeanized, Marketized but Still Governed by the State? Private Health Insurance in France (Gaël Coron, Thomas Houssoy, Cyril Benoît)....Pages 191-218 Ireland: The Ambiguous Role of the Health Insurance Market (Philippe Martin, Pascale Turquet)....Pages 219-246 The Dutch Way: Experimenting with Competition in the Healthcare System (Pascale Turquet, Philippe Martin)....Pages 247-280 In Between the Market and Public Health Insurance: A Place for Occupational Welfare in Europe? (Thomas Houssoy, Marion Del Sol, Philippe Martin)....Pages 281-328 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. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. 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 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. Chapter 1 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com. Cyril Benoit 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