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This chapter sums up the findings regarding the EEA integration process extending into healthcare and educational services publicly financed and mostly delivered through benefits in kind. The chapter discusses the sensitive character of welfare services and points to the fundamental difference between individual rights and challenges to the financial equilibrium of national budgets. Paralleling the EU legal system the EEA free movement law now involves a move from viewing healthcare and educational services as part of an integrated system of protection towards a view where such services are provided individually anchored in the freedom of choice.
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As for example also Norway did in the analysed cases from the Authority on compatibility of the state funding systems with EEA law.
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The coordination regime for social security benefits contains a complex set of provisions to determine the competent state to whose social security legislation the individual will be subject, i.a. for the purposes of applying the aggregation and exportation principles.
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For a recent study on normative approaches in public health systems, see Raptopoulou (2015).
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Raptopoulou KK (2015) EU law and healthcare services, normative approaches to public health systems. Wolters Kluwer, Alphen aan den Rijn
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Fløistad, K. (2018). Some Reflections on the EEA Integration Process Extending Into Healthcare and Educational Services Publicly Financed and Mostly Delivered Through Benefits in Kind. In: The EEA Agreement in a Revised EU Framework for Welfare Services. Studies in European Economic Law and Regulation, vol 13. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95043-3_5
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