title: [A free market is unfavourable for health care].
abstract: The new health care system in the Netherlands introduces a free market into the health care sector. Because health care lacks some essential conditions, a free market will not provide effective resource allocation in this sector. In addition, a free market leads to more bureaucracy and less solidarity, cooperation and freedom of choice. It also impairs the autonomy of the medical professional.
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authors.lastname: Kant
mesh_terms: D030861:Capitalism; D002755:Choice Behavior; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004465:Economic Competition; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D018166:Health Care Reform / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D007348:Insurance, Health / Q000191:economics*; D009426:Netherlands; D017009:Professional Autonomy; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics*