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The Drawbacks of Dutch-Style Health Care Rules: Lessons for Americans
In 2006, the Dutch government implemented a universal insurance mandate. Many American policy makers are looking to the Dutch experiment as a model to fix America’s complex and costly health care system. Given the narrow, partisan enactment of Obamacare, America appears to be on a similar path. In a recent paper, Heritage experts Ryan Lynch and Eline Altenburg-van den Broek explain why patients in the Nehterlands do not have a significant choice among the health insurance companies nor can they access sufficient information about the health system and different options. Click here to read about why this system would not benefit patients in America, either.
Tags: Dutch-Style Health Care, health care, individual mandates, Obama Health Care Plan, ObamaCare, transparency
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