Introduction 1. Variations, Commonalities, and Challenges for Health Care 2. The Growing Role of Brussels in Health Care: Subsidiarity, Social Protection, and Economic Growth 3. Dutch Health Care Reforms: Here Comes the Market, There It Goes! 4. Healing the Greek National Health System Requires Political Surgery 5. France and Health Care Policy Making: Saying Non to Market Society 6. The German Flirt with Managed Competition 7. Conclusion: An Artful Dance of Economics and History