The State and Healthcare

Part I. The Concept of the Study

1. Introduction to the Book
Heinz Rothgang

2. Conceptual Framework of the Study
Heinz Rothgang

Part II. Cross-Sectional Analyses

3. The Changing Role of the State in Healthcare Financing
Achim Schmid, Mirella Cacace, Heinz Rothgang

4. The Changing Role of the State in Healthcare Service Provision
Achim Schmid, Claus Wendt

Part III. Case Studies

5. The Role of the State in the British Healthcare System — Between Marketization and Statism
Simone Grimmeisen, Lorraine Frisina

6. The Self-Regulatory German Healthcare System Between Growing Competition and State Hierarchy
Heinz Rothgang, Achim Schmid, Claus Wendt

7. The US Healthcare System: Hierarchization With and Without the State
Mirella Cacace

Part IV. Conclusion

8. The Converging Role of the State in OECD Healthcare Systems
Heinz Rothgang

Keywords: Social Sciences, Social Policy, Politics of the Welfare State, Public Policy, Comparative Politics, Social Care, Medicine/Public Health, general