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    1. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “The Dutch have sought to use a tightly managed market to achieve universal health care, rather than a more socialized system like those seen elsewhere in Europe” https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2020/1/17/21046874/netherlands-universal-health-insurance-private …

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    2. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “The Netherlands leans on private actors — private insurers, independently employed doctors, privately owned nonprofit hospitals — to provide health care. But it also places strict regulations on the health sector to achieve the goals of affordability and access”

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    3. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “Doctors in the Netherlands are more likely than those in most other developed countries to say their patients struggle to cover their share of the bill and their administrative workload is a drag on their productivity”

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    4. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “The system demonstrates that if a country is committed to organizing and tightly managing its health care, then it is still possible to achieve universal, affordable, and accessible care without entirely sacrificing market principles or private insurance”

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    5. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “The Netherlands fines people who don’t carry insurance for up to six months and then auto-enrolls them in an insurance plan, with premiums that are about 20 percent higher than they would have paid if they signed up during the regular enrollment period”

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    6. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “A small number of people — about 200,000, or around 1 percent of the [Dutch] population — default on their premiums, and their wages are garnished to cover the cost of their [health] insurance”

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    7. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “The average cost to a Dutch citizen for health insurance is about 1,400 euros, or $1,615, annually. People with lower incomes get additional government assistance to reduce their payments”

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    8. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “Public financing covers about 75 percent of the system’s costs; the insurers have also generally operated as nonprofits”

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      Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

      “The benefits are designed to encourage cost-efficient use of medical care by patients. Dutch patients can visit a primary care doctor for free. For a visit to the hospital, they will need to pay toward their deductible”

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        2. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “Insurers can set a cap on how much will be paid out for medical services provided in a given year, known as a global budget, and the government can impose budget cuts if spending goes over that limit”

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        3. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “Just one in four Dutch people said in a 2016 survey that they have trouble getting medical attention in the evening or overnight from a general practitioner, which represents much better access than patients in other health care systems”

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        4. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “Although the Dutch pride themselves on solidarity and collaboration, sometimes dramatic action has been necessary to make desperately needed improvements to the health care system”

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        5. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “Primary care doctors in the Netherlands deal with a lot of churn: They see patients for 10 minutes on average, less than half the time American patients usually get to spend with their doctor, and a shorter consultation than most other Western European doctors enjoy”

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        6. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “the country [is] probably underpaying general practitioners relative to their importance in the Dutch health care ecosystem. They make about $120,400 on average, compared to the $211,800 an average US primary care doctor makes”

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        7. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “Premiums have been increasing steadily, faster than wages. That has left the lower middle class in particular paying more of their income toward health care than in the years before”

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        8. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “The deductibles required under the Dutch model can also be burdensome for people in poverty”

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        9. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “The Dutch system is, like all other health systems, a product of its country’s history. A conservative government wanted private markets to provide health insurance to its people. They wanted competition but they also wanted collaboration”

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        10. Thijs Niks‏ @thijsniks 22 Jan 2020

          “After-hours care is a problem that few countries have succeeded in cracking … But it’s a problem the Dutch appear to have solved”

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