ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the transition phase and the influence it could have on competition in the market. It deals with the implementation of employee insurance schemes. In the Netherlands a distinction is made between the implementation of employee insurance schemes and public insurance schemes. In the field of social insurance in the Netherlands, the minister is responsible for setting the goals and formulating the policy. The chapter demonstrates that the actions of the implementing bodies in the pre-market phase can influence the way in which the market will ultimately function. The survey provides insight into the steps that the implementing bodies concerned are taking, even before the decision to adopt a market-based context has been formally taken. The inclusion strategies can be applied in a pre-market because the customers in the state-controlled setting cannot leave. The legitimacy of management and control as a means of upholding state-controlled goals therefore diminishes as the introduction of the market draws closer.
