...Jan-Kees Helderman; Frederik T. Schut; Tom E. D. van der Grinten; Wynand P. M. M. van de Ven In this article we analyze the evolution of market-oriented health care reforms in the Netherlands. We argue that these reforms can be characterized as policy learning within and between competing policy...

...Eddy van Doorslaer; Frederik T. Schut Belgium and the Netherlands Revisited Eddy van Doorslaer and Frederik T. Schut Erasmus University In recent years, the health care policy debate in many countries has con- centrated...

...Hester van de Bovenkamp; Hans Vollaard; Margo Trappenburg; Kor Grit In many Western countries, options for citizens to influence public services are increased to improve the quality of services and democratize decision making. Possibilities to influence are often cast into Albert Hirschman's...

...R. J. Van Loon This paper takes as its starting point recent major changes in arrangements between the federal and provincial governments in Canada concerning the sharing of costs for health insurance programs. The switch from a shared cost (conditional grant) to a modified block funding system...

...Diana J. Burgess; Rachel R. Hardeman; Sara E. Burke; Brooke A. Cunningham; John F. Dovidio; David B. Nelson; Sylvia P. Perry; Sean M. Phelan; Mark W. Yeazel; Jeph Herrin; Michelle van Ryn Abstract This article characterizes the political ideology of first-year medical students and describes...

.... Speeuwenberg, J. Rademakers, D. M. J. Delnoij, and S. van der Meulen-Arts. 2007 . Ervaringen van verzekerden met de zorg en de zorgverzekeraars [Experiences of Insured with Health Care and with Health Insurance Companies]. Utrecht: Nederlands Instituut voor onderzoek an de gezondheidszorg (NIVEL). de...

... to Carolyn Tuohy, Tom van der Grinten, and Paul Batchelor. Finally, we are very grateful to two anonymous reviewers and the editor of this journal for their comments and suggestions that helped us to improve the article. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Vol. 37, No. 3, June 2012 DOI...

... that examined health care access in Winnipeg, Ontario (Roos and Mustard 1997), have concluded that Organ- isation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) nations with universal (or near-universal) access have an equitable distribution of primary care visits across income groups (van Doorslaer...

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..., more satisfactory balance between corporatism, etatism. and market mechanisms must still be found. Industrialized countries are struggling to determine how to fit expand- ing health care sectors into their managed market economies. So far, the The author thanks James Morone, Wynand van de...

... experiment. Categorization of explanatory factors. Van Meter and Van Horn, Mead, Har- grove, Edwards, and Rourke each provided portions of the framework we used for studying the implementation of the AHCCCS bidding system.’ Van Meter and Van Horn developed a conceptual model of the policy...

... and the Nether- lands (Schokkaert 1996; van de Ven and van Vliet 1992). Overview of Switzerland’s Health Care Sector Political power is very decentralized in Switzerland. The confederation is responsible for social health insurance, which has become mandatory for the entire resident population under...

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... as latitude for member-states (Bekkedal 2011 , 61; Géradin 2012 ), but neither were firmly defined in the Lisbon Treaty, and attempts by the Commission to provide this only went so far (and particularly so with the SSGI concept) (van de Gronden 2011a : 125). The Commission's 2011 decision on SGEI did...