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Developer builds AI-powered Dutch health insurance price checker

A developer created Zorgverzekering.chat, a Dutch health insurance comparison site, to combat AI assistants providing outdated pricing information. The system uses an MCP server to deliver current data, including sources, to AI models like ChatGPT and Claude. This approach involves extracting structured data from numerous insurer documents, validating changes, and employing a deterministic TypeScript engine deployed on Cloudflare Workers. AI

IMPACT Addresses the issue of AI models providing outdated information, improving accuracy for specific applications.

RANK_REASON Developer created a tool to address a specific problem with AI assistants.

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Developer builds AI-powered Dutch health insurance price checker

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  1. dev.to — MCP tag TIER_1 English(EN) · Jan-Willem Bobbink ·

    I built an MCP server so AI assistants stop guessing Dutch health insurance prices

    <p>Ask an AI assistant what the Dutch mandatory health insurance deductible is for 2027 and you'll often get <strong>€ 385</strong>. That was the 2026 figure. The 2027 figure is <strong>€ 400</strong> (Staatscourant 2026, 34372).</p> <p>The model isn't broken. It was trained on l…