Private Health Insurance and the European Union

Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Chapter 1: Introduction: The European Union, the Insurance Industry and the Public-Private Mix in Healthcare -- 1 Introduction -- 2 Private Health Insurance in the European Union: Marketization Embraced? -- 2.1 EU Insurance Law and Regulation as a Potential Vehicle for the Marketization of PHI -- 2.2 Marketization: A Multidisciplinary Approach for a Multifaceted Concept -- 2.3 Making the Case for the Contingency of Europeanization and its Usages -- 3 Research Design and Case Selection -- 3.1 The Structure of the Book -- 3.2 A Multimethod Perspective -- 3.3 Case Selection -- 4 The Book in a Nutshell -- 4.1 Contributions to the Book -- 4.2 Understanding the Presence of Financial Firms in Social Policy -- 4.3 The EU and the Shifts in the Public-Private Mix in Healthcare -- References -- Part I: The Political Roots of EU Insurance Legislation -- Chapter 2: Insurance Directives and the Single Market: Towards a Trivialisation of Private Health Insurance? -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Political Horizon of the "Insurance" Directives: Realisation of the Internal Market -- 2.1 First Attempts to Construct a European Insurance Market on the Basis of Freedom of Establishment -- 2.2 Revival of the Political Process via Mobilisation of Case Law -- 2.3 Finalisation of Construction of the European Insurance Market by Adoption of the "Passport" Technique -- 3 Trivialisation of Health Insurance and its Actors in the "Insurance" Directives -- 3.1 The Failed Attempt to End the Monopoly Held by Social Security -- 3.2 Refusal to Adopt the Exclusivity Principle for the Health Insurance Activity -- 3.3 Failure of the Project for an Alternative Legal Framework for Mutual Benefit Societies -- 4 Conclusion -- References.