The premium for DSW’s basic insurance will increase by 149 euros per month next year. According to the health insurer, it is time for drastic changes in healthcare, partly because the financial incentive for additional interventions is too great for hospitals.
The basic insurance of 149 euros is 11.50 per month more than this year. It is the sixth year in a row that the Schiedam insurer’s premium has increased, but never has it been such a significant increase.
Aad de Groot, chairman of DSW, therefore advocates drastic changes in the financing of healthcare.
For example, DSW wants to get rid of the system where production is rewarded. “It now works that the more treatments they do in a hospital, the higher the income,” says De Groot. A wrong incentive, he thinks, because “the demand for care needs to be reduced and that will not work this way.”