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