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A Dutch friend says that healthcare in the Netherlands is so much cheaper than in Germany is also because they don't spend huge amounts of money to extend the l
by shellfishgene 4y ago
A Dutch friend says that healthcare in the Netherlands is so much cheaper than in Germany is also because they don't spend huge amounts of money to extend the life of old patients by a few weeks. I don't know to what extent this is true.
- Vinnl 4y agoThere's more of a culture of balancing quality of life vs. treatment here compared to many other countries, but trying to use that as a singular explanation for most anything is most certainly wrong. For example, as I understand it there's also less slack in the Dutch system, exemplified by Dutch patients needing to be moved to Germany during covid because we had fewer IC beds per capita. Which, of course, also surely isn't enough by itself to explain it. (Though I'm not sure how much cheaper health care is here anyway — we definitely do have a problem with ever-growing health care costs.)