More people without health insurance
Spent: 21 March 2005 15.22 last modified: 21
March 2005 16.04 VOORBURG - in 2004, to estimate 223,000 people had
not been insured against medical expenses. The number of
onverzekerden lane of 1.1 percent in 2001, up to 1.4 percent in 2004.
that communicated Monday it. Resistance workers have not been
counted in the research. A part of niet-verzekerden exist from
the homeless and alcohol - or drug drug addicts. Moreover is
there according to CBS people who are refused because of premium
payment still due insurance companies. Some want itself
fundamental reasons not to insure. Finally it thinks CBS that
there are small self-employed persons those economic reasons choose no
health insurance to conclude. How large these different groups
is, the research workers do not know. The Netherlands counted in
2004, almost 10.2 million persons in the health insurance fund that is
more than 60 per cent of the population. Approximately 30 per
cent have a private insurance and 5.4 percent has been insured public
(employees at municipalities, provinces, police force and brandweer,
academic hospitals, but also gedetineerden and asylum seekers).
(c) DUTCH PRESS AGENCY
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