8 results on '"CORON, GAËL"'
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2. How Private Health Insurance in France Became a Market? (Cyber-conférence)
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Coron, Gaël, Houssoy, Thomas, Centre de Recherches sur l'Action Politique en Europe (ARENES), Université de Rennes 1 (UR1), Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Université de Rennes (UNIV-RENNES)-Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Rennes-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP), Département des sciences humaines et sociales (SHS), Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 (CLERSÉ), Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Society for advanced socio-economics (SASE), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Lille, and Université de Rennes (UR)-Institut d'Études Politiques [IEP] - Rennes-École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
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[SHS.SOCIO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Sociology ,France ,[SHS.ECO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Economics and Finance ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science ,Health Insurance ,[SHS]Humanities and Social Sciences - Abstract
International audience; This communication focuses on the transformations of the French private health insurance. This sector was seen, at the beginning of the 1980s, as legitimately reserved and managed by non-profit actors, themselves holding a position of privileged partners of the State. This state-of-play reflected the status-quo during the first four decades of the post-war period and shaped the representations of most French people up to this day. Indeed, most of the population keeps referring their private health insurance contract as their « mutual », deriving from the dominant position mutual institutions (non-profit institutions) still hold on this market.Nevertheless, the health private insurance sector is now mainly ruled as a market with a fair competition between for-profit and non-profit actors. This is partly due to the implementation of European directives, starting in the 1990s, but also to a game of power between European and national actors. Using a sociological approach, we will demonstrate that formal categories of actors must be deconstructed to explain this game. For example, not all the general directorates of the European Commission have the same perspectives about these evolutions, and the same applies to the French State or private actors. We will so describe the advocacy coalitions committed to the evolution of the legal framework.By analysing the way French private and public actors faced or anticipated these transformations, we’ll answer few questions strongly linked to the place of the Welfare State in financial times: how the market could be used to complete health policy goals? Is the European Union law a trigger of the financialization process in fields such as health? How financialization lead for-profit and non-profit institutions to act more and more the same way?Actors’ attitude towards financialization and marketization varies widely, some seeing them as goals while others relying on them only as means for other policy goals. For example, the Health Ministry or a part of mutual institutions claimed that stronger insurers in a clearly market-driven field could bring higher access to the health system for everyone and guarantee limitations of medical extra-fees. For-profit insurers and Ministry of Economy would see the marketization of health insurance as a goal for itself. Such legitimation speeches must be questioned and faced with how these mechanisms actually worked these last two decades.Financialization in this process appears through stricter prudential rules introduced by European law, notably the 1990’s Insurance directives (introduction of mandatory provisioning of engagement by insurance companies) and Solvency II (higher standards of capital and solvability requirements), and their indistinct implementation on both for-profit and non-profit institutions. It can be argued that one of the effects of these laws is to drain money dedicated from social protection to financial markets through the constitution of provisions firstly aimed at consumers’ protection.Although the amounts are far less than in the case of private pensions, the effects on actors are significant and adversarial on non-profits actors, despite holding most market shares. Indeed, through compliance and adaptation, their internal process, governance and strategies have changed when facing increased competition (both due to lower market barriers for competitors and expansion of new market segments such as occupational schemes) and ill-fitted regulation (due to directives being crafted around the classical for-profit insurance company). This led to a large concentration process of non-profit organizations into larger entities and their adoption of behaviours inspired by for-profit institutions.To illustrate that, we must go away from a legal point of view and describe the socio-historical patterns they experimented. In the end, even if the terms still differ, the gap between for-profit and non-profit organizations is narrower than ever.
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- 2020
3. Private Health Insurance in France : Marketization Embraced?
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Benoît, Cyril, Coron, Gaël, Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (CEE), Sciences Po (Sciences Po)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), École des Hautes Études en Santé Publique [EHESP] (EHESP), Département des sciences humaines et sociales (SHS), and Centre d'études européennes et de politique comparée (Sciences Po, CNRS) (CEE)
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Private Health Insurance ,[SDV.SPEE]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Santé publique et épidémiologie ,France ,[SHS.SCIPO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Political science - Abstract
First lines: Over the last twenty years, many studies have reported the growing use of market-based instruments for the delivery of health services in Europe. Though still largely funded by the public purse, the general narrative that emerges is that European healthcare systems face a creeping tendency towards the integration of competition, price mechanisms, exit options, agencification or more specific tools (see for examples Paton, 1998, Neby, 2015). Scholars have devoted a great deal of attention to distinguishing this process of marketization from privatization (Hansen and Lindholst, 2016). Put simply, the former does not necessarily equate to, nor does it entail, the later. While marketization can occur without significant shifts in terms of the overall share of public spending, privatization designates an increased level of provision led by private providers — conversely, these providers may resemble former public actors more closely than market operators. Stated differently, there can be marketization without privatization, and vice versa. However, research also suggests that marketization in health policy has often been paralleled by privatization, even though contrasting paths have been followed from one country to another (Maarse, 2006).
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- 2018
4. Private Health Insurance in France : Marketization Embraced?:(2018 APSA Annual Meeting)
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Benoît, Cyril and Coron, Gaël
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First lines: Over the last twenty years, many studies have reported the growing use of market-based instruments for the delivery of health services in Europe. Though still largely funded by the public purse, the general narrative that emerges is that European healthcare systems face a creeping tendency towards the integration of competition, price mechanisms, exit options, agencification or more specific tools (see for examples Paton, 1998, Neby, 2015). Scholars have devoted a great deal of attention to distinguishing this process of marketization from privatization (Hansen and Lindholst, 2016). Put simply, the former does not necessarily equate to, nor does it entail, the later. While marketization can occur without significant shifts in terms of the overall share of public spending, privatization designates an increased level of provision led by private providers — conversely, these providers may resemble former public actors more closely than market operators. Stated differently, there can be marketization without privatization, and vice versa. However, research also suggests that marketization in health policy has often been paralleled by privatization, even though contrasting paths have been followed from one country to another (Maarse, 2006).
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- 2018
5. The European Union: Reorganising Resources: Employment, Pensions and the Wage
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Dufresne, Anne, Gobin, Corinne, and Coron, Gaël
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Economie sociale ,Syndicats - Abstract
info:eu-repo/semantics/published
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- 2004
6. Varia
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Au sommaire : Plaider l'Europe sociale contre l'Europe du marché / Comment les nouveaux entrants dans un marché font usage de l'Union européenne? Le cas des projets coopératifs d'énergie renouvelable / Corporate power and the resolution of the Eurozone crisis / Beyond Dichotomies: Defining Europeanness in a'Limit-Experience'/ A reaction to the French “non”? Or a case of institutional bricolage?
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- 2022
7. Imagining the Ideal Pension System: International Perspectives
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Dana M. Muir and John A. Turner and Dana M. Muir and John A. Turner
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- Pensions
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'This book is based on the 2010 conference of the European Network for Research on Supplementary Pensions (ENRSP), held at the Economic Policy Institute in Washington, D.C., on September 10, 2010'--Foreword.
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- 2011
8. French Relations with the European Union
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Helen Drake and Helen Drake
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- European Union--France, European Union--Public opinion
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This scholarly work examines how key actors within French politics and society have related to the challenges and opportunities posed by the European Union, and how these relations have driven or hindered change in France. The collection invites the reader to explore below the surface image of a France troubled by its relations with the EU in the post-Cold War era, and see the dynamics of change in empirical detail. Each chapter offers insights into specific aspects of the France-EU relationship, including: the characteristics of Euroscepticism à la française amongst the electorate and political parties the dynamics of change in the political, media and legal establishments in their dealings with the EU the priorities for labour, business and la vie associative in their relations with French decision-makers regarding the EU.
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- 2005
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