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		<title>Healthcare in Norway</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eigth in our series on National Healthcare System is the Norwegian System.

The Norwegian healthcare could be perceived as yet another European universal, tax-funded, single-payer health care system. Often compared to the French Sécu for its breadth of scope and its results in lengthening Norwegian&#8217;s life expectancy, it holds a few surprises when look under the ]]></description>
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		<title>Health Care in Germany</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Seventh in our series on National Healthcare System is the German System.

Our findings were that it is a very interesting one to study for three reasons. Firstly, it is one of the oldest in the world, dating back to Bismarck, so they had plenty of experience to evaluate its pros and cons; secondly, it is ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouse.asia/blog/health-care-germany</link>
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		<title>Dutch Healthcare System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Sixth in our series on National Healthcare System is the Dutch System.

As Dutch legislators inspired themselves from the Swiss system, there are a lot of similarities between the two systems. Both require their residents to purchase private healthcare, both regulate their insurance provider so they have to accept all applicants regardless of medical history, and ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouse.asia/blog/dutch-healthcare-system</link>
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		<title>The Swiss Healthcare System</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fifth in our series on National Healthcare System is the Swiss Healthcare System.

Since it passed the Federal Health Insurance Act of 1994, the Swiss system has been gaining admirers. Especially across the Atlantic, where US officials and senators see it as one of the best alternative to their present system. The reason? It is on ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouse.asia/blog/the-swiss-healthcare-system</link>
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		<title>A review of the International PMI</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In light of the continuing challenges and volatility in economic conditions, many expatriates and international companies are now having to take a fresh look at their arrangements for Private Medical Insurance (PMI). Certainly, the PMI market has not remained unscathed through 2009 &#8211; although the degree of impact across the market is both debatable and ]]></description>
		<link>http://www.lighthouse.asia/blog/international-pmi-review-2010</link>
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		<title>Canadian Expat and the Medicare</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Fourth in our series on National Healthcare System is the Canadian Medicare.

Canadians see their Medicare system as critical to their identity as it unites them across region, class, race, gender and age. To such an extent that they elected Tommy Douglas, the &#8220;father of Medicare,&#8221; the Greatest Canadian of all time in a 2004 poll ]]></description>
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