Die Gesundheitssicherung im Mehrebenensystem

A »multilevel government« has taken the place of a nation state, which means that new questions pertaining to legal policy challenges and issues of legal dogmatics have arisen. One of the key questions in a multilevel system is the allocation of duties among the various levels. Birgit Schmidt am Busch studies whether not it is possible to find criteria which enable a systematic allocation of duties to each of the government levels. In order to illustrate this, she refers to the complex and highly topical subject of protecting health. In dealing with the four basic tasks of protecting health - prevention, cure, rehab, care for the terminally ill - she gives a detailed description of the structure and function of the European multilevel system. In doing so, she focuses on the so-called third sector, i.e. those institutions which are in between the state and the market.