This book explores the consequences of the impact of the EU rules for the internal market, including the proposed Directive on patients' rights, competition on national health care systems, and related areas.

The book approaches the issue of health care not only from the perspective of patient mobility but also from the angle of competition law, public procurement law and WTO law

It provides the reader with a comprehensive view of the impact of (European) market law on national health care

Compulsory reading for everyone who is engaged in issues of health care and EU law

Inhalt

Introduction

Part I: Foundations

EU Health Care Law in a Constitutional Light: Distribution of Competences, Notions of 'Solidarity', and 'Social Europe'

Discrimination and Beyond

Part II: The (Draft) Patients' Rights Directive and Internal Market Issues

The Case Law of the European Court of Justice on the Mobility of Patients: A Defence

Patients' Rights: A Lost Cause or Missed Opportunity?

The Draft Patient Mobility Directive and the Co-ordination Regulations of Social Security

Cooperation between Health Care Authorities in the Proposed Directive on Patients' Rights in Cross-border Health Care

Legislating For Patients' Rights

Disrupting the Community Saving Public Health Ethics from the EU Internal Market

Health Care, the United Kingdom and the Draft Patients' Rights Directive: One Small Step for Patient Mobility but a Huge Leap for a Reformed NHS?

Part III: Competition Law and Health Care Issues

The Treaty Provisions on Competition and Health Care

BUPA; a Healthy Case, in the Light of a Changing Constitutional Setting in Europe?

EU Law and the Organisation of Health Care: Experiences from Germany

Experiences from the Netherlands: The Application of Competition Rules in Health Care

Part IV: Further issues of EU Health Care Law

Health Care Planning and the EU Internal Market Law

Public Procurement Law and Health Care: From Theory to Practice

Patient Mobility beyond Calais: Health Services under WTO law

Part V: Conclusion

Conclusions: Constructing a 'Solid' Multi-Layered Health Care Edifice

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