...Stephan L. Burton David C. Thomasma, Thomasine Kimbrough-Kushner, Gerrit K. Kimsma, and Chris Ciesielski-Carlucci, eds. Asking to Die: Inside the Dutch Debate about Euthanasia. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic, 1998. 604 pp. $198.00 cloth; $49.00 paper. © 2000 by Duke University Press 2000...

... the German health reform was actually influenced by the Dutch model and, second, in theoretical terms, to inform inductively on how ideas from abroad enter government agendas. The results show that the streams of problem recognition and policy proposals have not been predominantly influenced by the cross...

...Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau; Christiaan J. Lako The 2006 Enthoven-inspired Dutch health insurance reform, based on regulated competition with a mandate for individuals to purchase insurance, will interest U.S. policy makers who seek universal coverage. This ongoing experiment includes guaranteed...

... by their institutional and political contexts, led to systemic change over time in the Netherlands and not in Germany. We define systemic change as change where established institutions that constitute distinct policy systems are being displaced or replaced by new institutions. To us, systemic change in Dutch and German...

...Frederik T. Schut The transformation of the Dutch health care system and the impetus behind the market-oriented health care reforms implemented since 1989 are examined. During the postwar period, the gradual transformation of the Dutch health care system was interrupted twice by attempts...

...Richard B. Saltman; Adrian A. de Roo The Dutch hospital sector has recently been the subject of two divergent national policy initiatives. Following a mixed experience with regulation in the mid-1980s, the national government has now taken the first steps in a radical shift toward market-based...

... that not many people use their individual options of exit and voice, which could lead to inequality between users and nonusers. We identify delegation as a possible solution to this problem, using Dutch health care as a case study to explore this option. Notwithstanding various advantages, we show that voice...

...Carolyn Hughes Tuohy This article examines the cases of three health care states — two of which (Britain and the Netherlands) have undergone major policy reform and one of which (Canada) has experienced only marginal adjustments. The British and Dutch reforms have variously altered the balance...

.... Enthoven, A. C. 1978 . Consumer-Choice Health Plan. New England Journal of Medicine 298 : 650 -658, 709-720. ____. 2008 . Living Model of Managed Competition: A Conversation with Dutch Health Minister Ab Klink. Web exclusive, Health Affairs 27 : w196 -w203. Enthoven, A. C., and R. Kronick...

... and Prudential Supervisor Financial Institutions. Goldstein, J. 2007. Bush Official Heading to Europe on Health Study Trip. Wall Street Journal. http://blogs.wsj.com/health/?s=leavitt (October 30, 10:48 a.m.). Harris, G. 2007 . Looking at Dutch and Swiss Health Systems. New York Times , October 30...

... that the odds of these new post-2001 reforms succeeding are substantially higher than in the fi rst period due to the technical and institutional adjustments that have taken place in the past decade. © 2005 by Duke University Press 2005 Bolkestein, F. 2003 . Dutch Health Insurance System . Letter...

... Anneke Spreij Dutch Transplantation Foundation Abstract  The presence of undocumented migrants is increasing in many Western countries despite wide-­ranging attempts by governments to increase border secu- rity. Measures taken to control the influx...

...    143   an integral and powerful professional group. This paradox is the subject of Raymond DeVries’s A Pleasing Birth, an engaging, well-written case study of maternity care in the Netherlands. DeVries describes how women in the Netherlands give birth (or “get babies” in the Dutch idiom...

... are Books    143   an integral and powerful professional group. This paradox is the subject of Raymond DeVries’s A Pleasing Birth, an engaging, well-written case study of maternity care in the Netherlands. DeVries describes how women in the Netherlands give birth (or “get babies” in the Dutch idiom...

... are Books    143   an integral and powerful professional group. This paradox is the subject of Raymond DeVries’s A Pleasing Birth, an engaging, well-written case study of maternity care in the Netherlands. DeVries describes how women in the Netherlands give birth (or “get babies” in the Dutch idiom...

...: Martin Robinson. Boorsma , P. (Member of First Chamber of Parliament.) 1994. Interview by author. The Hague, April. Bouwman , M. (Policy adviser on Social Security for the Federation of Dutch Trade Unions.) 1994. Interview by author. Amsterdam, April. Butler , J. 1992 . Patients...

... Friends and Influence People . BMJ 335 : 284 – 285 . Helderman J. K. 2007 . Bringing the Market Back In? Institutional Complementarity and Hierarchy in Dutch Housing and Health Care . PhD diss. , Erasmus University Rotterdam . Helderman J. K. Bevan G. France G...

... was one of the first countries in which the government proposed a “grand design” health care reform, which is now being gradually imple- mented in a diluted form. Although Belgium borders the Netherlands, and its health care system shares some of the characteristics of the Dutch sys- tem...

... to a third section, offering a descriptive mapping of EU competition law, its EU “state-aid” law plank in particular, and its powerful regulatory institutions and legal principles. This is followed by a fourth section, based on three competition (state-aid) cases: the Irish BUPA case, the Dutch health care...

... and Development (OECD). The Dutch example is also sobering for those who believe consumer choice will transform markets. The Dutch switched from a German system of employment-based sickness funds in 2006 (Van de Ven and Schut 2008 ) to achieve a more demand-driven system and reduce health care costs. Its...