Skip to main content
Home

Main navigation

  • Top stories
  • Health
  • Crime
  • Politics
  • Business
  • Tech
  • Culture
  • Sports
  • Weird
  • 1-1-2
Health
doctors
Edith Schippers
Everything must change
health insurers
Health Insurers Netherlands
manifesto
Ministry of Public Health Welfare and Sports
protest
Zeist
Friday, 17 April 2015 - 08:52
Share this:
  • facebook
  • twitter
  • linkedin
  • whatsapp
  • reddit

Over 65 pct. of family doctors protest health insurers

The group of doctors who directed the manifesto "Everything must change" to Minister Edith Schippers of Public health last month, thinks further contract negotiations with health insurers are meaningless as they do not listen. The manifesto is supported by 7,418 of the total 11,345 house doctors in the Netherlands - 65 percent. At 23:58 on Thursday night the doctors performed a protest action at the headquarters of Health Insurers Netherlands in Zeist, NOS reports. According to the manifesto, insurers have to much power when dictating the healthcare payment arrangements. The competition between the doctors distorts their practices. The doctors have three demands. Remove doctors from the Competition Act and make "cohesion through cooperation" the guiding principle in primary care. Cooperate and negotiate only on equal basis - so no more negotiations with insurers. And show confidence in the ability of the profession. Last year there was a lot of discussion about doctors closing contracts with insurers. Many doctors initially refused to sign the contracts. A survey by the National Association of General Practitioners showed then that many GPs did not dare to refuse. 92 percent of the doctors who finally signed the contract are now dissatisfied with it. According to the doctors, they have a weak negotiating position. GPs are not allowed to negotiate together or allow someone else to do it for them, which make them stand alone at the contract negotiations. That puts them in a difficult position. Contracts sometimes contain points that the doctors object against, but if they do not sign, the insurer with who they have a contract does not compensate them for certain procedures.

Follow us:

Latest stories

  • Police missed many signals in run-up to attorney, crime journalist's murders: report
  • ING online banking disruption resolved after over 12 hours of downtime
  • Public transport strike: No trains running in Friesland, part of Groningen
  • Belgian men arrested for fatal shooting of German man in the Netherlands
  • Netherlands pledges to compensate healthcare workers suffering from Long Covid
  • Second body found in rubble of Arnhem apartment complex fire

Top stories

  • Police missed many signals in run-up to attorney, crime journalist's murders: report
  • Public transport strike: No trains running in Friesland, part of Groningen
  • Dutch mad cow disease case concerns variant that is less dangerous for humans
  • Catering sector to blacklist people who misbehave in clubs, bars
  • Education Min. adjusting rules to limit influx of international students
  • Inflation dropped to 7.6 percent in January

© 2012-2023, NL Times, All rights reserved.

Footer menu

  • Privacy
  • Contact
  • Partner content