There'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

There'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.)