After Vandenbroucke’s rant: are health insurance funds still necessary? “They cost taxpayers too much and do not work efficiently”

“Health insurance funds must completely reinvent themselves, otherwise there will be no future for them,” said Minister of Health Frank Vandenbroucke (Vooruit) on Saturday in an interview with ‘De Standaard’. He wants to make the operating resources, now more than one billion euros, completely dependent on the results achieved by health insurance funds, and not just on the number of long-term ill people. The figures raise questions about their efficiency. The HLN research unit therefore sought an answer to the question to what extent health insurance funds are still necessary. “We already work a lot more efficiently than a few years ago.”

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