title: New Provider Models for Sweden and Spain: Public, Private or Non-profit? Comment on "Governance, Government, and the Search for New Provider Models".
abstract: Sweden and Spain experiment with different provider models to reform healthcare provision. Both models have in common that they extend the role of the for-profit sector in healthcare. As the analysis of Saltman and Duran demonstrates, privatisation is an ambiguous and contested strategy that is used for quite different purposes. In our comment, we emphasize that their analysis leaves questions open on the consequences of privatisation for the performance of healthcare and the role of the public sector in healthcare provision. Furthermore, we briefly address the absence of the option of healthcare provision by not-for-profit providers in the privatisation strategy of Sweden and Spain.
authors.affiliation: Radboud Institute for Health Sciences, Celsus Academy for Sustainable Healthcare, and Scientific Institute for Quality of Healthcare, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Patrick P T
authors.initials: PP
authors.lastname: Jeurissen
authors.affiliation: Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Hans
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Maarse
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care; D006076:Government; D018166:Health Care Reform; D006779:Hospitals, Public; D017149:Private Sector; D011332:Privatization; D017150:Public Sector; D013030:Spain; D013548:Sweden
keywords: For-Profit Healthcare; Not-for-Profit Providers; Privatization; Provider Reform