Trends in EU Health Care Systems

Trends in EU Health Care Systems examines the political, social, and economic factors that have affected health care policy in recent decades in the countries of the European Union. The author looks at broad trends such as the growing number of uninsured people, limitations in collectively financed coverage packages, rising personal contributions, an ever more favorable environment for preferential treatment, and shifting responsibilities from governments to other social parties through privatization and deregulation, and he makes predictions about where health care in the EU is heading he foresees growing inequalities in access to care, for one. The EU is seen as a laboratory for socialized medicine, and so this book will be of interest to people in the US and other countries looking to learn from the European model for health care.