Dutch System News Today

In the first of three essays, Marc Steen outlines a three step process for how organisations can practically integrate ethics into their IT projects and how different ethical perspectives can inform tech development

In 2006, the Dutch government implemented a universal insurance mandate. Many American policymakers are looking to the Dutch experiment as a model to fix America’s complex and costly health care system. But the Dutch reforms have not caused individual consumers to seek value, and the “managed competition” has led to a less competitive market. After just three years, the Dutch insurance market is a clear-cut oligopoly. Given the narrow, partisan enactment of President Obama’s health polic...