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>Netherland has private insurance, and it works fine. Fine-ish. For example some medications are not available because the insurance companies decided they wou
by yourusername 4y ago
>Netherland has private insurance, and it works fine.
Fine-ish. For example some medications are not available because the insurance companies decided they would pay only for the cheapest generics and then only the lowest prices of anyone. For some reason this means that manufacturers decide to only supply to the Netherlands when they have ample supply.
Also there are the inefficiencies of the insurance companies who are for profit entities that spend large ammounts of money on their executive teams and ad campaigns to convince people to switch their policy to a difference insurer.
- mcv 4y agoThat's why I said fine, not great. There's tons of room for improvement, but it's not the disaster that the US health care system is. But obviously any system that involves for-profit companies with executives and shareholders is going to siphon some money out of the system. I don't doubt socialised healthcare systems are fundamentally cheaper, and if done well, at least equal in quality. I'm just saying it's not just the privatised nature that's crippling the US system; it's certainly not helping, but it's aggravated by being a particularly poorly implemented privatised system that's entirely about profit and doesn't really care about the people it's supposed to help. And let's not fool ourselves; there are also wrong ways to do socialised healthcare. I do think socialised is generally better, but you always have to look critically at all the parts of the system.