Fascinating stuff but like Massacusetts, the issue is always about reform
of provision too Alan
n Jun 27 2008, David McDaid wrote:
>FYI
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>From: Equity, Health & Human Development
>[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia
>(WDC)
>Sent: 26 June 2008 14:34
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>Subject: [EQ] Universal Mandatory Health Insurance In The Netherlands
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>Universal Mandatory Health Insurance In The Netherlands:
>A Model For The United States?
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>Wynand van de Ven, professor of health insurance in the Institute of
>Health Policy and Management at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, the
>Netherlands.
>Frederik Schut, professor of health economics at the institute.
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>Health Affairs, 27, no. 3 (May-June 2008): 771-781 doi:
>10.1377/hlthaff.27.3.771 -Project HOPE
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>Available free online at:
>http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/3/771
><http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/3/771>
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>".....Policy analysts consider the Netherlands health system a possible
>model for the United States. Since 2006 all Dutch citizens have to buy
>standardized individual health insurance coverage from a private
>insurer. Consumers have an annual choice among insurers, and insurers
>can selectively contract or integrate with health care providers.
>Subsidies make health insurance affordable for everyone. A Risk
>Equalization Fund compensates insurers for enrollees with predictably
>high medical expenses. The reform is a work in progress. So far the
>emphasis has been on the health insurance market. The challenge is now
>to successfully reform the market for the provision of health care...."
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