Healthcare

How European social insurance systems can inspire future NHS reform


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Kristian Niemietz featured on the BBC

IEA Head of Political Economy Dr. Kristian Niemietz has been quoted in a BBC article discussing what the NHS can learn from Germany’s healthcare system.

After outlining the superior healthcare outcomes of the German system, the article quoted Kristian:


“Social health insurance systems tend to have better healthcare outcomes. Patients enjoy a greater degree of individual choice and benefit from shorter waiting times. Switching to a social health insurance system would not be a panacea.


But if we want to combine the best aspects of a public system with the best aspects of a consumer-focused market-driven system, social health insurance is a tried and tested way to do that.”


The full BBC article can be read here and Kristian’s paper ‘Universal healthcare without the NHS can be read here.





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