This essay will be comparing the defining characteristics of the Australian and United States healthcare system. The key features of Australian and United States healthcare systems will be discussed as well the jurisdictional roles and responsibilities of the three-tiered governance within the two countries. The pattern of fund distribution in both countries will also be examined to provide an understanding of national healthcare system. The positives, negatives and challenges of the Australian and United States healthcare system will also be discussed in this paper to acknowledge the problems that are within the Australian and United States healthcare system. A final comparative discussion will be provided in this essay in order to fully grasp the similarities and differences of the two healthcare systems.
In the Australian healthcare system, the main features include the Australian Commonwealth Government’s role and responsibilities within the health sector, Medicare and private health insurance cover (Keleher. H, Reynolds. L and Willis. E, 2012.) The Australian Federal Government has a primary role in the national healthcare department. It is responsible for administrating the healthcare reforms, policies, levies and subsidising funding to the minor governments, which are State and Local governments. (Dwyer .J, Eager. K, 2009.) Another significant feature in the Australian Healthcare System includes Medicare, which is a universal public health cover in Australia. Medicare which allows equal access of health services for all Australians. Medicare, an incentive introduced in 1984 by the Labor Government, promotes affordability in the Australian Healthcare System; allowing Australians or people with Permanent residency to access ...
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...in levels of governments within the two countries. In Australia, the Federal Government has predominant access to funding models, healthcare reform bills and responsibilities in the Health department.
There are many defining features in the Australian and United healthcare systems, which are fairly similar in their structural context. One of them includes the universal healthcare scheme, Medicare of Australia and Medicaid of the United States. They both support the low income population, allowing them to receive health assistance in the public sector. There is also the two inclusively. A distinctive feature of the Australian Healthcare system is the Federal Government’s role as they are predominantly active in the funding model as it generates most of the costs with the direct and indirect distribution to the State and Local governing bodies. Another distinct
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An analysis of the US and Canada’s systems reveals advantages and drawbacks within each structure. While it is apparent that both countries could benefit from the adoption of portions of the others system, Canada’s healthcare system offers several benefits over the US system.
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At the beginning of the 20th century healthcare was a necessity in Canada, but it was not easy to afford. When Medicare was introduced, Canadians were thrilled to know that their tax dollars were going to benefit them in the future. The introduction of Medicare made it easier for Canadians to afford healthcare. Medicare helped define Canada as an equal country, with equal rights, services and respect for every Canadian citizen. Medicare helped less wealthy Canadians afford proper healthcare. Canadian citizens who had suffered from illness because they could not afford healthcare, were able to get proper treatment. The hospitals of Canada were no longer compared by their patients’ wealth, but by their amount of service and commitment. Many doctors tried to stop the Medicare act, but the government and citizens outvoted them and the act was passed. The doctors were then forced to treat patients in order of illness and not by the amount of money they had. Medicare’s powerful impact on Canadian society was recognized globally and put into effect in other nations all around the world. Equality then became a definition which every Canadian citizen understood.
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In this paper, there will be a comparative analysis to the United States (U.S.) healthcare system and Canadians healthcare system highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of both.
The Australian Health Care System is regarded world class for its effectiveness and efficiency. It consists of the mix system of health providers in both the private and public sector. The funding mechanism is highly advantageous to its entire citizen, which consists of the 30% Rebate, Pharmaceutical Benefit and Medicare. In particular, Medicare has been ensuring all Australian nationals with access to free and low cost medical, optometric, hospital care with special option to private health services in special circumstances.
With increasing concerns of debts and deficits, Canada’s publicly funded health care system has recently become the target of fiscal attack. Efforts to reform and restructure the system have produced few results. Currently, some governments throughout the country are looking towards a more radical approach. An approach that would see not only the reform and restructuring of the method of operation of the current system, but that would change the system entirely. The proposed idea? In Alberta, it is to increase the role of the private sector in the current system.
What are the major weaknesses in our current health care system and what needs to be done to ensure a more effective equal health care system for both city and remote areas of Australia?
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The introductory of Canada’s health care system in the mid-20th century, known as Medicare, led the country into the proud tradition of a public health care system, opposite to America’s privatized health care system in the south. Though Canada’s health care system still holds some aspects of a privatized system, it is still readily available for all citizens throughout the nation. After continuous research, it is clear to state that public health care and the association it has with welfare state liberalism is by far a more favourable option for Canada, than that of private health care and the association it has with neo-conservatism. To help understand why public health care is a better and more favourable option for Canada, it is fundamental
The U.S. healthcare system is very complex in structure hence it can be appraised with diverse perspectives. From one viewpoint it is described as the most unparalleled health care system in the world, what with the cutting-edge medical technology, the high quality human resources, and the constantly-modernized facilities that are symbolic of the system. This is in addition to the proliferation of innovations aimed at increasing life expectancy and enhancing the quality of life as well as diagnostic and treatment options. At the other extreme are the fair criticisms of the system as being fragmented, inefficient and costly. What are the problems with the U.S. healthcare system? These are the questions this opinion paper tries to propound.
Medicare is the term that refers to Canada's beneficially, fully funded health care system. In alternative to having a national plan, Canada’s health care insurance plans are segregated depending on the province, or territory an individual inhabits. Through Medicare, all Canadian residents have an advantage to accessing medical aid when needed. In comparison to other countries, which have limited to no access to their health services, Canada is seen as a world leader in medical aid facilities. The development of medicare in Canada had a positive impact in Canadian history because it made Canada an advanced nation, highly fulfilled the needs of society, and profitably impacts every Canadian family. Medicare has already benefited the lives of
The Australian health care system comprises both the public and the private health sub-sectors. The health care system concerns itself with the financing, formulation, implementation, evaluation, and reforming of health services. The main sources of f...
To further understand the US healthcare system and put in context how health coverage is provided to its population it is important to compare the US health system to another country like the Netherlands. In the Netherlands healthcare coverage has been achieved through competitive insurance markets similar to the US and the Dutch government does not control prices, productive capacity or funds but instead only acts as a regulator (Daley & Gubb, 2011). In 2006 the Dutch government held healthcare reforms because the country faced an issue that was very similar to the US, in regards to healthcare coverage inequalities, the population was covered through private and public health insurance, with stable private health insurance for the wealthy and unstable public insurance which lacked patient focus and was inefficient in comparison (Daley & Gubb, 2011). Many factors called for healthcare reformation in the Netherlands like a disarranged structure that ineffectively controlled cream skimming, lack of competitive incentives that for insurance companies resulting in bad performance, and the rising premiums