Katharina Böhm is Junior Professor for health policy and politics at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She has published on various health policy issues, including priority setting and rationing, Europeanization of health policy and German health policy reforms.

Many books are described as path-breaking, but this one is genuinely so. The notion of rights to health care has been rarely explored in a European context and Katharina Böhm’s scholarly study of the evolution of these rights over the last thirty years in England and Germany is unique. It is a major contribution to our understanding both of such rights in general and of their place in the two countries’ health systems.Julian Le Grand, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK

• Introduction; The social right to health care and the transformation of the welfare state; Health care entitlement in England; Health care entitlement in Germany; The transformation of the social right to health care; Explaining health care entitlement reforms; Conclusion; Appendix

Katharina Böhm is Junior Professor for health policy and politics at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She has published on various health policy issues, including priority setting and rationing, Europeanization of health policy and German health policy reforms.

Many books are described as path-breaking, but this one is genuinely so. The notion of rights to health care has been rarely explored in a European context and Katharina Böhm’s scholarly study of the evolution of these rights over the last thirty years in England and Germany is unique. It is a major contribution to our understanding both of such rights in general and of their place in the two countries’ health systems.Julian Le Grand, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK

• Introduction; The social right to health care and the transformation of the welfare state; Health care entitlement in England; Health care entitlement in Germany; The transformation of the social right to health care; Explaining health care entitlement reforms; Conclusion; Appendix

Katharina Böhm is Junior Professor for health policy and politics at the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. She has published on various health policy issues, including priority setting and rationing, Europeanization of health policy and German health policy reforms.

Many books are described as path-breaking, but this one is genuinely so. The notion of rights to health care has been rarely explored in a European context and Katharina Böhm’s scholarly study of the evolution of these rights over the last thirty years in England and Germany is unique. It is a major contribution to our understanding both of such rights in general and of their place in the two countries’ health systems.Julian Le Grand, Professor of Social Policy, London School of Economics, UK

• Introduction; The social right to health care and the transformation of the welfare state; Health care entitlement in England; Health care entitlement in Germany; The transformation of the social right to health care; Explaining health care entitlement reforms; Conclusion; Appendix