Swiss And Dutch Health Systems Provide Lessons For US On Achieving Universal Coverage
Friday, January 16, 2009 - 09:35
in Health & Medicine
A new Commonwealth Fund study says that policies in the Switzerland and Netherlands that achieve near-universal coverage and low administrative costs can help inform the US health-care reform debate. Both countries effectively cover all but one percent of their population -- compared with 15 percent uninsured in the US -- due to an individual mandate to purchase health insurance and premium assistance for those with low incomes.