http://pnhp.org/blog/2008/11/28/lessons-from-the-netherlands/ PNHP's official blog Wed, 04 Nov 2009 05:40:22 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://pnhp.org/blog/2008/11/28/lessons-from-the-netherlands/comment-page-1/#comment-597 thomasc Sun, 07 Dec 2008 04:00:25 +0000 http://www.pnhp.org/blog/?p=139#comment-597 The concept of choice is a clever ruse because the only choice people need is of doctor and hospital. Splitting people into groups only will cost a lot more for less coverage. Men clearly don't need maternity coverage and women don't need prostate coverage. The correct and fair concept is to provide all people the coverage they need with a cost they can afford. Both of my daughters have been perfectly healthy until struck by severe respiratory illnesses requiring inpatient ICU care - both survived and are now thankfully back to their baseline health . The costs of this care - over $60,000 each. You wouldn't think healthy adolescents would need the "choice" of this type of care - fortunately we had coverage as everyone should in the universal pool we advocate 81% of primary care physicians in New Hampshire favor single payer health insurance - Lake is way off base on her erroneus conclusions. The concept of choice is a clever ruse because the only choice people need is of doctor and hospital. Splitting people into groups only will cost a lot more for less coverage. Men clearly don’t need maternity coverage and women don’t need prostate coverage. The correct and fair concept is to provide all people the coverage they need with a cost they can afford.
Both of my daughters have been perfectly healthy until struck by severe respiratory illnesses requiring inpatient
ICU care – both survived and are now thankfully back to
their baseline health . The costs of this care – over $60,000 each. You wouldn’t think healthy adolescents would need the “choice” of this type of care – fortunately we had coverage as everyone should in the universal pool we advocate
81% of primary care physicians in New Hampshire favor single payer health insurance – Lake is way off base on her erroneus conclusions.

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