Twenty-five years ago, the health care system of the Netherlandswas operating under top-down cost-containment policies, suchas regulation of doctors' fees and hospital budgets, that werewidely criticized for lacking incentives for efficiency andinnovation. In 1986, the Dekker Committee, an independent groupappointed by the Dutch government to seek a solution, recommendedmarket-oriented reform within the context of a national healthinsurance system. But before the concept could be implemented,a host of adequate systems had to be developed — systemsof risk equalization, of product classification and medicalpricing to give providers appropriate incentives for efficiency,of . . . [Full Text of this Article]
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Dr. Enthoven is a professor of management at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business, Stanford, CA. Dr. van de Ven is a professor of health insurance in the Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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