Holland Abandons Public Health-Care Option (not totally true)
So Barack Obama praised the Netherlands' health-care system last week. This is according to Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander, who met the U.S. president on Friday. We'd be eager to learn what Mr. Obama found so attractive about the Dutch system, since its defining characteristic is its abandonment of a "public option" in favor of nationwide competition between private insurers. The Netherlands used to have a mixed public-private system, with most people insured under the state plan. That was until rising costs and long waiting lists forced the liberal Dutch to conclude that big government was an inefficient way to provide universal coverage. Having scrapped state-run health care in 2006, every Dutch resident now chooses from a number of private insurers for his coverage.
Note EU-Digest: this is not totally true. No one can be rejected from the program and everyone in the country must be insured.
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