Are Health Systems National?
ARE HEALTH SYSTEMS NATIONAL? - PERCEPTIONS AND REALITIES
INTRODUCTION
The question of whether health systems are national will be answered using a two fold approach:
1. An examination of EU health / health care policy through an examination of Treaties and Directives that affect:
- Health professionals
- Consumers
- Health services and EU competition policy
- Pharmaceuticals/ medical devices
- Voluntary health insurance
2. An examination of a group of multinational companies active in the health care sector that are likely to benefit from further liberalisation.
- Aetna/ING
- CIGNA
- Medicover
- Capio
- Fresenius
- Euromedic
- Quest Diagnostics
- ISS
- SODEXHO
see the full report attached
Report April 2002
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