Quality Health Care in the European Union Thanks to Competition Law
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Results and Discussion
2.1. Competition Law Is Applicable to Health Care Players
2.2. Barriers to Effective Competition in the Health Care Market
2.2.1. Competition law presumptions
2.2.2. How does competition law improve quality?
2.2.3. The results from empirical research
2.3. Quality in the Competition Law Analysis
2.3.1. Introduction
2.3.2. Efficiency as a dimension of quality in competition law
2.3.3. Services of general interest, quality of care and regulation regarding state aid
2.4. Discussion
4. Conclusions
Acknowledgments
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Chicago/Turabian StyleFornaciari, Diego. 2010. "Quality Health Care in the European Union Thanks to Competition Law" International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 7, no. 1: 1-8. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph7010001