Dutch health care system

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[...] The Dutch system provides dose of efficiency and equity that the current health care system in USA, so desperately needs.” (Greenberg 1990). The health care system of Netherlands is a hybrid of German Social insurance and American private insurance created by Janssen & Van der in 1990. Dutch people spent GDP in on healthcare 2004 as opposed to the Americans who spent GDP even if the burden of health care costs was the same. According to WHO, total expenditure on health per capita was 3092$ in the Netherlands and 6096$ in America in 2004. [...]

[...] Premium amounts are determined are on the basis of income, and are shared between the employee and employers. The efforts of the Health care are supported by labor unions and corporate management alike. The Government also plays a key role in organizing the multiple private insurers and negotiating fees and budgets. Insurers who have a large number of high risk individuals get compensation from central funds. There is a gradual transformation to a comprehensive health plan for the entire population. The Insurance system has thus become a regulated competition. [...]

[...] Dutch healthcare system has adopted managed competition concepts developed by Alain Enthoven in US. Nursing homes in the Netherlands are autonomous and they provide treatment only during the day. Psychiatric care clinics are classified as intra, semi and extramural. Both are covered by AWBZ. Care for mentally retarded persons is provided by general institutions, special institutions, day care centers and family replacing group homes and have long waiting lists. Dental care clinics have separate fees for services under for both sickness funds and private funds. [...]

[...] The role of the government is to control costs and is explained by following ways: Under the Universal healthcare system, the physician's income is regulated through negotiations between the insurance association and the physician associations. So, Dutch physicians only about half of what the US physicians do. The bill that a physician presents is compared with the income that is established as the norm and they must pay back any excess certain amount of excess. There are two types of physicians are two types: General Practitioners and specialists. [...]

[...] The Republican leader Mr. Dennis Kucinich of Ohio said in his recent speech supporting universal health care, that "Currently, there's over a trillion dollars in the health care system from local, state and federal sources", "Today, Americans are paying for universal health care. They're just not getting it. They're not getting it, because insurance companies are guaranteed to be able to jack up the price of health care with the paperwork transactions they have." Reference List Laurene A. Graig (1993) Health [...]