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Denver Dave · Site Admin Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 1216

What is healthcare like in the Netherlands?
http://scienceblogs.com/denialism/2009/05/what_is_healthcare_like_Neth.php

The Dutch really have it together on health care, they have a system that has been proposed as a model for the US to emulate. In stark contrast to many other European systems, it's actually based entirely on private insurers, rather than a single-payer or entirely national system. Yet the Dutch system is universal, has far superior rates of satisfaction with quality of care and access, and still costs a fraction of what we pay for health care per capita in the US.

Denver Dave · Site Admin Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Posts: 1216

From: Don McCanne
Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 8:55 AM
Subject: [equal] More on the Dutch health system

The article on the Dutch system by Mark Hoofnagle omits some of the concerns about their model of reform. Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Christiaan J. Lako provide a more objective assessment. Alain Enthoven, a supporter of the Dutch system (qualified support), provides a response.

Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Christiaan J. Lako:
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/november/lessons-from-the-netherlands

Alain Enthoven responds:
http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/december/alain-enthoven-responds-on-reform-of-the-dutch-system