How Belgium's Mutual Associations Deliver Universal Coverage
Belgium built universal healthcare on competing non-profit associations rooted in worker solidarity and social movements—and it works.
The Korean Model That Controls Healthcare Costs Through a Single Payer
How merging 300 insurers into one gave Korea monopoly leverage over healthcare prices
The Czech Transformation From Soviet Healthcare to Insurance Competition
How a post-communist nation built a competitive insurance system while preserving universal coverage in just three years
How Denmark Eliminated Hospital Admissions for Chronic Disease Management
Denmark systematically moved chronic disease care from hospitals to homes—a transformation requiring changes far beyond technology.
How Rwanda Achieved Near-Universal Health Coverage After Genocide
A devastated nation rebuilt its health system from village level up, proving universal coverage is about design, not wealth.
Why Portugal's National Health Service Transformation Reversed Brain Drain
How deliberate policy intervention rebuilt Portugal's physician workforce after austerity nearly emptied its hospitals
How England's NHS Transformation Created Integrated Care Systems
England's 42 Integrated Care Systems represent the NHS's most ambitious attempt to solve healthcare fragmentation through unified governance and population health accountability.
How Taiwan Built Universal Coverage in a Single Year
A masterclass in turning political transition and technical readiness into health system transformation that others spent decades failing to achieve.
Why France Has the World's Best Healthcare According to WHO Rankings
How France built universal coverage that preserves patient choice—and what the WHO ranking actually measured about system performance.
Why Japan's Healthcare Costs 40% Less Per Capita With Better Outcomes
How centralized price-setting and institutionalized negotiation deliver universal coverage at half the cost of market-based alternatives.
The Israeli Innovation That Connects Every Patient's Records Nationwide
How Israel's competing health insurers achieved universal medical record access through governance design that aligned market incentives with data integration.
The Dutch Primary Care Model That Eliminated Emergency Room Crowding
How mandatory GP registration, after-hours cooperatives, and aligned incentives created a healthcare system where emergency departments treat emergencies.
Why Singapore Spends Less on Healthcare Yet Lives Longer Than Americans
How mandatory savings accounts, means-tested subsidies, and structural transparency combine to achieve superior health outcomes at dramatically lower cost than Western systems.
How Germany Achieves Universal Coverage Without Government-Run Healthcare
Discover how competing non-profit insurers, stakeholder self-governance, and solidarity financing create universal coverage while preserving choice and avoiding bureaucratic centralization.