Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients' right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. A decentralised solution without patient mobility leads to too …

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …