A comparative analysis of developments in health care and health insurance in Great Britain and The Netherlands would require a book-length study. Much to the discomfort of post-war generations, the first national scheme of collective health insurance in The Netherlands was introduced by the Germans who occupied the country from May 1940 until May 1945. The post-war system of social security in The Netherlands turned out to be much more an extension on pre-war foundations than a radical break, like the National Health Service (NHS) in the United Kingdom. A more specific, historical factor that has blocked initiatives towards a NHS in Holland was the strong position that the medical profession had obtained within the field of the sickness funds. The Dutch post-war system of social security was influenced by the war. Somewhat to collective embarrassment, the Germans put a deeper stamp on it than the British did.
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De Vries, G., Van Bottenburg, M., & Mooij, A. (2019). Beveridge in Holland. National, corporatist and market forces in dutch health care. In The NHS in Scotland: The Legacy of the past and the Prospect of the Future (pp. 157–172). Taylor and Francis. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429442247-11
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