From Venice to Rome to Tuscany, Italy is one of the top destinations to travel to. From the ruins of Pompeii to the colosseum Italy has many historical venues for visitors to see. For its beautiful scenery to its historic significance Italy is ranked fourth in the world’s top tourist destinations with an amazing annual of 39.1 million visitors per year (Tourism Statistics, 2015). What else is Italy known for besides its history and beautiful sites? It also known for its excellent healthcare system. In 2010, the World’s Health Organization (WHO), Italy ranked number two in the best healthcare systems of the world.
Italy offers universal coverage that is free of charge to its citizens. When discussing Italian health care there are three different …show more content…
The Italian system has not always had this plan though. This type of system was created in 1978. They started using this system in 1978 when they started following the leads of the British National Health System, which had two main principles when they first started. First was that every Italian citizen and foreign resident has a right to healthcare and second, the system covers all the necessary treatments that a patient needs (Italian National Health Service). The national health system of Italy offers very inexpensive healthcare to all European citizens. The in patient treatments that are covered include tests, medications, surgeries, family doctor visits and medical assistance. Another form of coverage for health care italians receive is from their employers, all employers are supposed to offer coverage through the company (Health care in Italy). By offering its citizens inexpensive health care you would expect Italy to be in debt beyond compare wouldn’t you? In actuality their health spending is not really that bad. Their spending accounted for 9.2% of its GDP in 2012. which is very close to the average of 9.3 in other countries. The public sector provides the most funds, as do most …show more content…
I believe that there are quite a few significant ways to accomplish this. For here in the United States I believe that they could start by making government assistance easier for the working class and students to receive. I say this from personal experience because I know how hard it is to receive insurance when you are working and going to school. For me I work thirty-five plus hours and go to school third quarter. For not quite being a full time student I cannot receive insurance from the school related help they offer and because I am only working part time and do not have a good full time job just yet, it is not offered at my workplace and I cannot afford it through a private place but I also do not qualify for medicaid either. With all that being said I believe that the government should start making it easier to receive certain benefits under certain circumstances. Another thing I believe that we could do would be to atleast make primary care more affordable, I believe with this that we could prevent so many diseases and problems, ultimately making Americans healthy. Not only would this be good for the United States but it would also be good for Italy too considering it would help decrease the amount of citizens not seeing the doctor. Although these are only a couple things that we could do to help our systems, I believe that these would be two groundbreaking steps to better health
Italy offers universal coverage that is free of charge to its citizens. When discussing Italian health care there are three different …show more content…
The Italian system has not always had this plan though. This type of system was created in 1978. They started using this system in 1978 when they started following the leads of the British National Health System, which had two main principles when they first started. First was that every Italian citizen and foreign resident has a right to healthcare and second, the system covers all the necessary treatments that a patient needs (Italian National Health Service). The national health system of Italy offers very inexpensive healthcare to all European citizens. The in patient treatments that are covered include tests, medications, surgeries, family doctor visits and medical assistance. Another form of coverage for health care italians receive is from their employers, all employers are supposed to offer coverage through the company (Health care in Italy). By offering its citizens inexpensive health care you would expect Italy to be in debt beyond compare wouldn’t you? In actuality their health spending is not really that bad. Their spending accounted for 9.2% of its GDP in 2012. which is very close to the average of 9.3 in other countries. The public sector provides the most funds, as do most …show more content…
I believe that there are quite a few significant ways to accomplish this. For here in the United States I believe that they could start by making government assistance easier for the working class and students to receive. I say this from personal experience because I know how hard it is to receive insurance when you are working and going to school. For me I work thirty-five plus hours and go to school third quarter. For not quite being a full time student I cannot receive insurance from the school related help they offer and because I am only working part time and do not have a good full time job just yet, it is not offered at my workplace and I cannot afford it through a private place but I also do not qualify for medicaid either. With all that being said I believe that the government should start making it easier to receive certain benefits under certain circumstances. Another thing I believe that we could do would be to atleast make primary care more affordable, I believe with this that we could prevent so many diseases and problems, ultimately making Americans healthy. Not only would this be good for the United States but it would also be good for Italy too considering it would help decrease the amount of citizens not seeing the doctor. Although these are only a couple things that we could do to help our systems, I believe that these would be two groundbreaking steps to better health