Study compares kids' health care in US, Netherlands

U.S. pediatricians, and particularly pediatric dentists, might want to consider relocating to the Netherlands if business seems slow. Young Dutch people make nearly twice as many trips to the doctor and the dentist than do their U.S. counterparts.

But more of the patients in Holland will be poor — in fact, poor people in Holland make twice as many trips for medical and dental care as do poor people in the U.S. Doctor and dental visits by poor people in the Netherlands are more on par with wealthy young people in the U.S., while the poor in the U.S. make the fewest trips of any household income demographic group in the two nations.