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From Variety:
Quotas obligating Netflix, Amazon and other streaming services operating in the European Union to dedicate at least 30% of their on-demand catalogs to local content are set to become enshrined in law soon.
Roberto Viola, head of the European Commission department that regulates communications networks, content and technology, said the new rules, which will also demand visibility and prominence of European product on streamers, are on track to be approved in December.
"We just need the final vote, but it's a mere formality," he told Variety at the Venice Film Festival.
Netflix, Amazon and other streamers will be required to fund TV series and films produced in Europe by commissioning content, acquiring it or paying into national film funds through a small surcharge added to their subscription fee, something which is already happening in Germany. Netflix tried unsuccessfully to fight the German surcharge in court.
(Score: 2) by Arik on Tuesday September 04 2018, @10:55PM
The best we can do is distinguish between markets which are a bit more or less free in various ways, but there is no real free market for medical care, anywhere.
As someone else already mentioned, medical tourism might be the closest thing to look at, places like Thailand for instance have relatively less regulation (at least in some important ways) and as a result we see things like people from Canada and Sweden skipping the lines and flying to Thailand for care. But that's not really a free market, it's just one slightly less unfree corner of a much larger and incredibly unfree market. They're still competing directly against socialized systems in a setting where they can't possibly compete on price, yet they do brisk business, so they're doing something people like.
If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?