Managed care and managed competition in the Netherlands (eingeladener Vortrag)

Background: Health insurers in the Netherlands are now privately owned and operated, but strongly regulated by the government, an economic concept known as „managed competition“. A central component of managed competition strategies is selective contracting between health insurers and healthcare providers. Objective: The goal of this research endeavour is to investigate key stakeholders' opinions about recent changes in Dutch healthcare policy regarding the extent to which policy changes have brought about the four central descriptors of healthcare (access, solidarity, financing and quality). Method: Expert inte…