08-28-2009, 03:39 PM
As long as you don't do it the Dutch way: introduce a system that was a proven failure in other countries. This proven failure has not so much to do with the system as such, but with the budgeting system between health care suppliers and insurance companies. This system is based on "disease-treatment-units" i.e. all diseases and their treatments are standardized, ignoring the effect that all human bodies are different. Another problem the Dutch health care system is facing is that more and more, not doctors but insurance companies decide what treatments and medicines a patient needs.