Samenvatting

In the past ten years, the European Court of Justice has done important verdicts concerning cross border healthcare on the principle of free movement of people and services. This has now resulted in a new proposal for a directive providing cross-border healthcare of a legal basis.

The aim of the proposed directive is to clarify the rights of patients when they go to another Member State to receive healthcare while having the costs of this treatment reimbursed up to the level provided for by the social security system in their home country.

There are, however, concerns on the effects the proposed directive might have on national healthcare systems and on the equality between patients and between Member States. The central question examined in this thesis, therefore, is:
Is the Commission's proposal for a directive on the application of patient's rights in cross-border healthcare reasonable?