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Subnational responsibilities for healthcare and Austria's rejection of the EU's patients’ rights Directive

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In 2011, Member States and the European Parliament brought into force a Directive on the application of patients’ rights in cross-border healthcare within the EU. Austria voted against this Directive even though its national legislation was already in line with the rulings of the European Court of Justice which had triggered the negotiations on the Directive. Why then, in the absence of any legal constraints on adapting to it, did Austria vote against the Directive? The article argues that it was the federal structure of financing hospital infrastructure and the subnational level's influence on national position building which led to the rejection of the Directive. The article retraces the process of position building by analyzing the interaction between the national and the subnational levels and concludes that Austria's position mirrors the national struggle between both levels of government over control of the hospital sector.

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  • Kostera, Thomas, 2013. "Subnational responsibilities for healthcare and Austria's rejection of the EU's patients’ rights Directive," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 111(2), pages 149-156.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:hepoli:v:111:y:2013:i:2:p:149-156
    DOI: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2013.03.016
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    1. Rauf Gönenç & Maria M. Hofmarcher & Andreas Wörgötter, 2011. "Reforming Austria's Highly Regarded but Costly Health System," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 895, OECD Publishing.
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    1. Diesenreiter, Carina & Österle, August, 2021. "Patients as EU citizens? The implementation and corporatist stakeholders’ perceptions of the EU cross-border health care directive in Austria," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 125(11), pages 1498-1505.
    2. Glinos, Irene A. & Baeten, Rita, 2015. "Reprint of: Dream vs. reality: Seven case-studies on the desirability and feasibility of cross-border hospital collaboration in Europe," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 124(C), pages 331-337.
    3. Glinos, Irene A. & Baeten, Rita, 2014. "Dream vs. reality: Seven case-studies on the desirability and feasibility of cross-border hospital collaboration in Europe," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 117(C), pages 18-24.

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