Dutch report: Less government improved health care

posted at 12:50 pm on October 13, 2009 by Michael van der Galien

Oops, bad news for reformers in the States who want you to believe that more government involvement in the health care insurance system will somehow force insurers to perform better: A report published in the Netherlands says that introducing the free market in the Dutch system, reducing the role of the government and creating websites that keep an eye on the activities of insurers, improved the quality of insurances considerably.

Customers are treated and informed considerably better than before. The man reasons for the improvements, the report says, “are the fear of insurers to lose customers” and “the fear of damage to their reputations.”

Now, I’m sure that Olympia Snowe and fellow RINO’s will ignore the obvious, but it’s crystal clear that the America doesn’t need more, but less government interference. Let the free market do what it does best; kill off weak businesses that produce low quality products.

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