From June 2008, Maggie Mahar and Niko Karvounis take a comprehensive look at the health care system in the Netherlands and find that the United States would do well to formulate a bill mirroring it.
Deep down I am still for universal coverage along the lines of the Canadian or British systems, but in today's political climate the Dutch system would be a pretty decent (and workable) alternative.
Read the Mahar-Karvounis piece here.