The New Governance,the Open Method of Coordination and Social Health Insurance in Europe

This essay considers a topic at the heart of much of Di Longley's scholarship, governance in health care. More particularly, it considers the effect of the EU's open method of coordination, an exemplar of the “new governance,” on social health insurance in Europe. It concludes that, paradoxically, the OMC might lead to centralisation of government power, rather than to greater participation in governance, in these countries.