Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Elenka Brenna
Author-X-Name-First: Elenka
Author-X-Name-Last: Brenna
Author-Email: elenka.brenna@unicatt.it
Author-Workplace-Name: DISCE, Università Cattolica
Title: The Lombardy Health Care System
Abstract: In the very recent past, the Lombardy health care system - established on the quasi-market
model – has caught the interest of researchers and politicians in different OECD
countries1. The merits of the model, compared to other Italian regional models, are the
control of health care spending and the balanced budget, in a frame of good quality of
services and patient choice.
This paper stems from a literature review and tries to analyse the evolution of this regional
system, the institutional path that brought to the implementation of the model, its
theoretical basis, its merits and criticism. The period considered ranges from 1997, when
the reform was enacted, to 2010.
Length: 27
Creation-Date: 2011-05
File-URL: http://www.unicatt.it/Istituti/EconomiaImpresaLavoro/Quaderni/ieil0063.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
File-Function: First version, 2011
Number: ieil0063
Classification-JEL: I18
Keywords: quasi-market, health care system, Italian NHS reforms.
Handle: RePEc:ctc:serie4:ieil0063