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Global Innovations In Payment And Coverage

One can reform a health system anywhere along the spectrum from how it is financed to which services it delivers. If the system is universal or nearly so to start with, these two reforms can affect everyone, even if no other part of the system undergoes any change. The providers who are paid to deliver services may continue to be organized and to operate in essentially the same way even after massive reforms upstream or downstream from them.

In 2006 the Netherlands overturned its traditional health care financing system by a law requiring essentially everyone to buy private insurance covering . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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