Auction!

The Dutch government is transferring the elderly care to the local governments; e.g. the local government needs to provide care for the elderly with a budget that the Dutch government has set...

With this budget, local governments are "buying" care with the care providers. But since the budgets do not suffice, the local governments need to make most of what they got.

The solution they came up with... AUCTION!!!
(read this piece in the Dutch newspaper)

The care provider that is the cheapest can get the contract... That is the way the Dutch done it all along: The VOC mentality... (VOC is the Company that sailed around the world in the golden age to get herbs from India and slaves from Africa)

Welcome to the 21st century care system. 

Word to the wise: If you tend to get old, please stay healthy...

What is important?

So... How did Sinterklaas and/or Santa Claus treat you??? That of course depends on your behaviour over the past year...

But to get back to the title of this post... What is important?
What is important to me can be completely unimportant to you!
So you might think what is he going on about? WELL! 


Someone close got admitted to the hospital. He was not feeling well for a couple of weeks. He was poked at and tested for several things, but the end result was not what we all had hoped for...

He's going to be checked out even more over the next couple of days.
 

So to answer my own question: What is important?

To me... Now... My friend's health!