"Problems related to the functioning of public healthcare systems encourage the search for alternative solutions, for example to ensure improved access to medical services. However, these proposals also require appropriate theoretical support to better present and apply them. This book draws on...

Background: In developed countries around the world there is a trend to enhance the public-private collaboration in healthcare. In Spain, a decentralized country with a NHS funded with taxes and universal coverage, commissioning to for-profit private hospitals the production of healthcare...

Chapter 1: The divided welfare state -- Chapter 2: To buy ahead -- Chapter 3: Private provision and private funding -- Chapter 4: State as sponsor -- Chapter 5: Half private healthcare -- Chapter 6: Half private elderly care -- Chapter 7: Half private education -- Chapter 8: Relieve or hollow...