Where does it work well? A small country with a homogenous population can pull it off but there isn't a single large country where it works. The Netherlands ha

Where does it work well? A small country with a homogenous population can pull it off but there isn't a single large country where it works. The Netherlands has a heterogeneous population (I don't see why size matters) with strongly government regulated sector of private insurance companies and hospitals. The net result is that we pay far less per capita than citizens of the US, yet the healthcare system is judged to be much better: http://www.reuters.nl/article/2010/06/23/us-usa-healthcare-last-idUSTRE65M0SU20100623 http://www.reuters.nl/article/2010/06/23/us-usa-healthcare-l... http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Fund-Reports/2010/Jun/Mirror-Mirror-Update.aspx http://www.commonwealthfund.org/Publications/Fund-Reports/20...