Health Insurance Exchanges: Lessons from Switzerland and the Netherlands
Health reforms in Switzerland and the Netherlands in 1996 and 2006, respectively, created managed competition in the countries’ health insurance markets. These insurance markets are somewhat similar to what is being proposed through the ACA’s health insurance exchnages. Ewout van Ginneken, Katherine Swartz, and Philip Van der Wees (2013) suggest that these implemenations offer 5 key lessons…