Research report 2007 - Max Planck Institute for Social Law and Social Policy

Choice and Competition in Health Care

Authors
Sichert, Markus
Departments

Prof. Dr. Ulrich Becker (Prof. Dr. Ulrich Becker)
MPI Sozialrecht, München

Summary
Competition within the health care system is increasingly becoming an instrument used to achieve welfare state allocation effects. At the same time, the targeted autonomy assigned to the actors involved is subject to regulation to ensure solidarity. The newly emerging markets, with their own special features, are both the expression and the subject of complex steering mechanisms which may be investigated by way of comparative law and thus deliver a host of new insights into the cost-intensive hospital sector.

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