D V C 0 2– 05 2 co ve r d es ig n : S tu d io B au W in ke l B N O , T h e H ag u e The Dutch health care sector is characterized by an evenly spread supply of health care provisions, with appropriate health care at an affordable price. Nevertheless, in the light of new developments, shortcomings can be identified. A major shortcoming in the present health care system is that it does not adequately meet patients’ demands. This shortcoming manifests itself in such problem areas as limited choice, inadequate cohesion and poor coordination of supply and demand (in terms of both quality and quantity). Reform of the health care system along two tracks is essential to prevent areas of the health care system from grinding to a halt. 1 An overhaul of the steering of the health care sector, by modifying the way that the responsibilities are divided, and a review of the associated powers. 2 Modification of the insurance system, by: a replacing the dual insurance structure in the second compartment with a single general curative care insurance provision; b integrating this new general insurance and the existing Algemene Wet Bijzondere Ziektekosten – Exceptional Medical Expenses Act (AWBZ). Work has already started on implementing the first track, among other things in modernizing the AWBZ and modernizing curative care. In order to successfully complete the overhaul of the steering of the health care sector in due course, it is essential to modify the insurance system too. This publication outlines the how and why of both tracks.
The article raises the question of understanding history not as a synthesis of the originally ancient Greek understanding of the world, the world of cosmic order and the Jewish Olam, but a palimpsest, where an erased other text is seen through the written text so that two dissimilar images of the world are manifested. The author examines the possibilities of such an understanding of history through the texts of "On the Orator" by Cicero, "Scholastic History" by Comestor and through a fragment of "Proslogion" by Anselm of Canterbury, who included in his work the objection to it of a certain monk Gaunilon. The idea of the world by V. V. Bibikhin seems to be a variant of resolving the problem of a dual understanding of history
