The health insurance deductible could be slashed if the four parties trying to form a new Cabinet manage to cobble together a coalition agreement. The out-of-pocket costs individuals pay for healthcare in the Netherlands has been frozen at a minimum of 385 euros for several euros, though people can choose to pay a higher deductible to lower their insurance premiums.
If outgoing Prime Minister Mark Rutte is appointed Secretary General of NATO before there is a new Cabinet, Rutte can remain Prime Minister. The position as supreme head of NATO is "not necessarily incompatible" with the office of prime minister, but in practice it is undesirable, said Bert van den Braak, specialist professor of parliamentary history and parliamentary system. "I cannot imagine that this will happen," he claimed.
In an interview with the NRC, former Health Minister Ernst Kuipers lashed out at the directors of the children's heart centers, who were able to reverse his decision to centralize this specialist care. According to him, they are only interested in their own money and status and not in the patients. They should be "ashamed of themselves", he told the newspaper.
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<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore)</strong> has appointed <strong>Professor Ernst Kuipers</strong>, a renowned gastroenterologist, healthcare executive, and former Minister of Health, Welfare and Sport for The Netherlands, as NTU Singapore’s new <strong>Vice President (Research).</strong></p>
<p style="text-align:justify">Prof Kuipers will also be appointed to the tenured faculty rank of <strong>Distinguished University Professor,</strong> the highest faculty rank at NTU bestowed upon faculty members with extraordinary scholarly achievements that typically span multiple disciplinary boundaries.</p>
A month and a half after his sudden resignation, it has become clear why Ernst Kuipers stepped down as the outgoing Minister of Public Health, Welfare, and Sports. He has taken a job at the Nanyang Technological University (NTU) in Singapore, the university announced on Thursday.
General practitioners will not be allowed to prescribe pills which pregnant women can use to terminate a pregnancy, though they were supposed to be allowed to write the prescriptions from July 1. That has been delayed, the Ministry of Health said on Friday. Due to the fall of the cabinet, it will take more time to arrange its implementation.