Healthcare in the Netherlands. The Health Insurance Act.

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There are 231,000 uninsured citizens and 241,000 defaulters in the Netherlands according to the most recent statistical method that has been supplied by the Central Bureau Of Statistics on the 1st of May in 2007. Multiple reasons may cause these problems. These problems are causally related (people with a low-income reluctant to pay) or multi causal (suffering from other (social) problems). Uninsured citizens and defaulters are considered to be a problem by politicians, governments, healthcare insurers, healthcare providers and citizens. Uninsured citizens and defaulters present two different groups with their own specific problems. The problems are researched to find solutions at the hand of institutional theory and international benchmarking. Other factors that may influence the problems are not researched. The instrument settings (= changes in the healthcare system), the policy instruments (= instruments of policy makers to affect the situation) and the overarching goals (

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