Netherlands Medicare reform: the rights guaranteed universal health care

Dutch medical security system to develop and improve in the early 20th century. 1941, the promulgation of the Basic Law medical protection, marking a modern society medical protection mechanism in the Netherlands formally established. The mid-1990s, in the new centre-left coalition government - a coalition government under the leadership of purple, the Netherlands good economic development momentum, which provided for Medicare reform and liberal economic environment. 1994, the new government in德克尔西蒙on the basis of a larger plan changes, the continued implementation of two major reform initiatives: First, to the reunification of the country, a wide range of complex health security system replace the existing division of serious financing System, to ensure that the rights of the people for medical treatment, the national health insurance for the tax base from income to the taxation of funds received by the statutory bodies governance. The second is in the insurance agencies and service providers are among the introduction of competition in governance, to improve efficiency. Government to relax the price level of control and hospitals to provide insurance funds more freedom, and service providers to sign the treaty, consultation fees. A good state of the economy with, in the Netherlands should be good prospects for health reform: in the complex, the institutional framework for privatization obviously lower body show the country some inequality overall balance.