International Health Care Systems Flashcards
Basic Policy and Structural Considerations
- Who is included?
- What is included?
- How is it funded?
- How is it delivered?
Healthcare in Germany
Who is covered: 95% of the population (State funded or private)
What is included: Broad array of hospital and ambulatory services, drugs, medical aids
Who pays for it: Sickness funds or private insurance
Who delivers it: Self-governed and operated corporatist hospitals
11.3% GDP
$4495 per person
Healthcare in the UK
Who is covered: Everyone. Right of citizenship.
What is included: Broad range of hospital and ambulatory services, and dental.
Who pays for it: Tax-funded
Who delivers it: Private and public
9.4% GDP
$3405 per person
Healthcare in Australia
Who is covered: Universal by right of citizenship
What is included: Public care, ambulatory care and doctors, and subsidies for pharmaceuticals
Who pays for it: Tax-funded, statuatory levy, private insurance
Who delivers it: State-run facilities
8.9% GDP
$3800 per person
Healthcare in Sweden
Who is covered: Universal by right of citizenship.
What is included: Broad range of hospital and ambulatory services, physicians, pharmaceuticals, dental care, home care
Who pays for it: Genmeral taxation, counties and municipalities
Who delivers it: Public facilities and salaried physicians
9.5% GDP
$3925 per person
Healthcare in the US
Who is covered: Privately insured, Medicare, Medicaid
What is included: Depends on insurance
Who pays for it: 50% government, multi-payer
Who delivers it: Mixed private, public
17.7% GDP
$8508 per person
Highest cost health care system in the world
Healthcare in Canada
Who is covered: Universal by right of citizenship.
What is included: Hospital and physician services
Who pays for it: 70% government, 30% private
Who delivers it: Mixed public and private
11.6% GDP
$6045 per person
