In Netherlands, Insurers Compete Over Quality of Care

(Video) By world standards, the Dutch are wealthy and healthy, but the country's changing. With each year, it's home to more Dutch elderly and more young immigrants from the developing world.

The queen opened a parliament once again wrestling over health care, still trying to contain costs after a massive overhaul designed four years ago. Full Story »

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Jo Bobenhouse Smith
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by Jo Bobenhouse Smith - Oct. 7, 2009

PBS is always quality trustworthy reporting--they didn't disappoint in this health care report on the Netherlands.

The presentation wwas an unlifting experience for me. I'd almost forgotten the end result of our health care reform should stop a lot of our current unrest.

Paraphrased “the goal was to unleash competition between the insurance companies to bring costing down.. .”

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