Health technology assessment (HTA) was introduced in Denmark 20 years ago. However, it only came into fashion a few years ago. This happened when politicians and health service decision-makers realized that due to the increasing pressure on resources prioritization was an inescapable fact. HTA...

Abstract: In Europe the public role of the religions appears to be directly proportional to the fall in trust in the procedural mechanisms at the basis of the liberal democracies. Compared to the strong identities attributed to the United States and to the Islamic world Europe is accused of...

Abstract AbstractThis article challenges the methodological nationalism of the convergence debate by arguing that multilevel governance destabilizes the coalitions thought to underpin liberal and coordinated varieties of capitalism. Existing efforts to explain how coherent production regimes...

Dieter Dziadkowski, ehemaliges Mitglied der Bareis-Kommission, geht in seinem Kommentar der Frage nach, wie sich die Anhebung der Mehrwertsteuer auf die Gesundheitskosten und letztlich auf die Krankenkassenbeiträge auswirken wird. Da die Gesundheitskosten nicht nur offen (z.B. die...