Study Data from Center for European Studies Update Knowledge of European Social Policy (The Regulatory Path To Healthcare Systems’ Financialization): Global Views – European Social Policy

2023 JUL 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Current study results on Global Views - European Social Policy have been published. According to news reporting from Paris, France, by NewsRx editors, the research stated, “The literature has often presented European healthcare systems as being less exposed to the growing dependencies on global finance observed in other areas of social policy. This article explores the sources and dynamics of a regulatory path to healthcare systems’ financialization that challenges this depiction.”

Financial support for this research came from PARI (Programme de recherche sur l’apprehension des risques et des incertitudes).

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Center for European Studies, “Building on analogies with the case of pension policy, we show that the integration of the private health insurance sector into the European Union financial regulation framework has resulted in perceptible processes of financialization. Notably this manifested in the growing role of financial firms, in non-profit health insurers’ adoption of ‘financialized’ business practices and eventually in a noticeable change of these actors’ positioning in domestic healthcare reform.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “After having discussed the theoretical implications, the article provides an empirical illustration of this argument by documenting the implementation of the Solvency II insurance directive by health insurers in France, and describes its more general consequences and implications beyond this case study.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: The Regulatory Path To Healthcare Systems’ Financialization. Journal of European Social Policy, 2023. Journal of European Social Policy can be contacted at: Sage Publications Ltd, 1 Olivers Yard, 55 City Road, London EC1Y 1SP, England. (Sage Publications - http://www.sagepub.com/; Journal of European Social Policy - esp.sagepub.com)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Cyril Benoit, Sci Po, Center for European Studies, Paris, France.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1177/09589287231176776. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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