Healthcare Around the World

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Healthcare Around the World

When someone gets sick or injured they expect to receive medical care, whether it be as a public or private practice. We tend to think that most everyone has some type of health insurance to cover the expensive costs of medical care but in reality there are many who cannot afford such. The universal challenge has been how to get medical coverage for everyone around the world, but is this ideal too radical? Each country has its own pros-and-cons with health care plans. The United States, among others, have just recently reformed our own. There are many types of medical coverage around the world that still face the endless rising costs, as well as the lack of accessibility to public and/or private health care. Here, we will look at other countries to see how the medical coverage models they have adopted have helped improve their own health care and how these same models could potentially improve our own.

Knowledge of the “Four Basic Models of Healthcare Systems” will help us have a better understanding of how our own health care system derived and how it has evolved to where it is today. Every system has the same basic objectives; preventive care for the healthy, caring for the sick, injured, or dying and providing this service without causing an economic strain to its people (Reid).

The “Beveridge Model” named after William Beveridge, who created Britain’s National Health Services, provides services to the public. It is funded by the public through taxes collected by the government (Reid). Services are provided to the public by government owned healthcare facilities or a private doctor; all of whom receive payment from the government for their services. Since the healthcare system is owned by the go...

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...community can provide to reach the needs of the population without causing financial ruin. We will need to make changes as the demands on healthcare increase and change.

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Reid, T. R. PNHP.org “Health Care Systems-Four Basic Models.” http://www.pnhp.org/single_payer_resources/health_care_systems_four_basic_models.php >01 April 2014

Edmonds, Molly. "10 Health Care Systems Around the World" 09 September 2009. HowStuffWorks.com. 01 April 2014.

Wikipedia. “Health Insurance in The United States.” Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_insurance_in_the_United_States > 01April 2014.

Wikipedia. “World Health Organization.” Web

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Health_Organization >08 April 2014

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