Healthcare reforms in Europe: a snapshot of the changes
This article was originally published in Clinica
Executive Summary
Not only non-harmonised and - under EU law - unifiable, the healthcare financing and reimbursement systems of the individual members of the EU are also prone to rapid change. No one system is the best, says Yvonne van Kemenade*, author of Health care in Europe 2007, but each tends to be shaped by the experiences and changes seen over the respective country's borders