Healthcare and health Innovation in Europe: Regulating for public benefit or for commercial profit?

Regulatory justifications raise important issues about the degree to which health care provision can secure public benefits and respect individual rights, while actively seeking market benefits such as cost-efficiencies and private profits. Yet, the dialectic between the interests of users of health care products and services, and the interests of health care providers and producers is inherently lost by contributions to the literature adopting divergent analytical perspectives. This journal exemplifies the diversity of existing literature through five papers which all speak to entirely different analytical regulatory perspectives and relate to fundamentally different contexts of health care, but each adds to a collective understanding of the dynamic between public and private interests.