The Dutch health care system combines a free social basic insurance with market forces and a profit motive. Particularly due to market forces, physicians and general practitioners should have shorter queues. The Dutch should also be cheaper because they are not unnecessarily insured.
Due to the increasingly strict contracts of commercial companies with healthcare providers, healthcare in the Netherlands is increasingly falling into the doldrums. Queues for general care are getting longer, while the profit that is made does not go to the healthcare provider, but to the commercial entity.
The result: overworked aid workers who do not reap the benefits of their work. What do you think, should the Netherlands keep for-profit companies out of the healthcare system? Comment below on the statement of the day: