In various aspects health care constitutes a less likely or critical case of both European integration and Europeanization (Eckstein 1975). As set out explicitly in the Treaty, the organization of health care is the responsibility of the Member States (art. 168 (7) of the Lisbon Treaty,...

This paper examines the institutional output and preliminary outcome of the European Union (EU) Patients' Rights Directive in two healthcare models: the Beveridge and Bismarcian models in Denmark and Bulgaria, respectively. The study applies a most dissimilar system design to explain a similar...

Healthcare has only slowly appeared on the European Union’s (EU) policy agenda. EU involvement in policies concerning the organization, financing and the provision of diagnosis, care and cures to ill people developed along three fragmented tracks: (a) EU public health policies concerning the...