Newswise — Pauline Rosenau, Ph.D., professor of management, policy and community health at The University of Texas School of Public Health, can translate the proposed plan for universal health care coverage in the United States and discuss the policies of other countries with universal coverage.
Rosenau has extensively researched and published studies on the healthcare policy of countries such as Canada and the Netherlands."Evidence and scientific research should guide Congressional policy. Policymakers should pay close attention to research results when formulating new legislation," says Rosenau.
Rosenau's December 2008 article in the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, titled "An Experiment with Regulated Competition and Individual Mandates for Universal Healthcare: The New Dutch Health Insurance System," examined universal healthcare coverage in the Netherlands and its possible lessons for the United States. With several industrialized countries providing universal health care coverage, Rosenau believes the Netherlands' model closely resembles the model that U.S. policymakers are looking to create.
"The Netherlands is the best test of market competition-based health insurance reform to date," Rosenau said. "But U.S. policymakers should be careful with this form of universal coverage because it has failed, so far, to reduce costs or improve quality." However, according to Rosenau, the quality and access to health care is sometimes better in the Netherlands, while the healthcare cost per person is half the amount of the United States.
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