Health Care: Public, Private or Nonprofit? Comparative Survey on the Role of the Third Sector in Western Health Systems and Health Care in Veneto

Given the progressive entry of non-profit or- ganizations into the world of health, with an operability closely linked to the rules of market and free competition, the question is whether an integrated “public – private – nonprofit” model can produce a high-quality health service, economically sustainable and closer to the stakeholders’ needs. It is also a question of verifying if such a model retains its validity regardless of the country’s legal-institutional and economic-financial framework (Nation- al Health Service essentially public, centralized or decentralized, or essentially private Health Service in which the State plays a mere regulator role), as well as of the local organizational apparatus and regulation or ownership and assets’ control