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No legal way to ban insurer hospital merger

Wednesday 03 June 2009

There is no legal barrier to hospitals merging with insurance companies, a health ministry commission has told health minister AbKlink.

The committee says that the quality, availability and affordability of healthcare is not threatened by such mergers, news agency ANP reports.

MPs fear that mergers would lead to a reduction in choice because insurance companies would be able to force their policyholders to use particular doctors and hospitals. But this will not be the case, committee says.

In addition, the competition authority and the health authority will be able to check if choice and quality are threatened.

Klink is due to publish the cabinet's position on such mergers by the end of this month.

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Welcome to the twilight zone of HMOs. Where you spend more time on the phone getting services cleared - worrying about getting to an approved hospital when you break your leg - and generally horrid medical care due to the total profit-centered focus of the entire system.

Every day the Netherlands lurches another step closer to the disaster that is the United States.

CNN propaganda, MTV masochism and McDonalds pseudofood are but the vanguard of this sad cultural annihilation.

By Dan Fitzgerald | June 3, 2009 4:08 PM


dan Fitzgerald i couldn't agree with you more i love the Netherlands and every thing about there culture work ethic and style of life
but every day i see American culture poping up every where and this is not a good thing in any way i come from the Scotland/UK where our country and culture have been raped by America for the past 20 or so years to the point most of the media is American sky TV is owned by an American as are the main tabloid news papers.
in every town pretty much there is a kfc MacDonald burger king and a pizza hut the programing on TV is also over run with American sitcoms and other programing every aspect of culture and living in the UK is completely Americanized the dutch rely have to take a leaf out of the uk's book on how not to screw up your country good and proper fallowing in Americas foot steps is not a good idea

By tgavin irvine | June 4, 2009 12:03 AM


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