For decades, a solution has been searched for to solve the problems of health care in the United States. The most major issue being the constant imbalance of cost, access, and quality. Many countries around the world have been utilizing the system of socialized health care for years, including Canada, Germany, and the United Kingdom. These three international health systems will be analyzed in terms of organization, finances, outcomes in relation to cost, access, and quality, as well as the overall opinion of the system. This data will then be compared to the current state of health care in the United States. Through examination of three separate international health systems, it will be determined if the United States would benefit from
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Payment policies, where funding comes from, grants, and investments have all been adjusted many times. The simplest way to summarize Canada’s health care is that it is mostly publicly funded and privately delivered to the people (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). The early 2000’s were a time of major changes to the healthcare system. New policies were being introduced that allowed for some distance from complete uniformity across the country. As explained by Hutchison et al,, “there is no single “right” model for the funding, organization, and delivery of primary health care. Different models have different strengths and weaknesses and may perform better or worse in different contexts and with different target populations” (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). This shows a greater understanding of the true statement that there is not a single box that will perfectly fit every province and territory. There are different financial needs depending on the location being looked at. Also during the early 2000’s was the First Minister’s Health Accord in 2003. This was a sixteen-billion-dollar federal investment into the reform of Canada’s health care, with a focus on drug coverages, primary care, and home care (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, …show more content…
Canada does not have the same issues as the United Kingdom, but seems to suffer from issues similar to the United States. One point of positivity is that, “Ninety-one percent of Canadians say they have a regular source of care, usually a family physician (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2009, as cited in Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). Primary care helps to prevent overcrowding in secondary care facilities such as emergency rooms and overall help as a preventative measure. However, where the people of Canada have issues with the health care is in relation to access. Statistical information shows that, “13 percent say they have difficulty obtaining access to routine or ongoing care (Canadian Institute for Health Information 2009), and 33 percent report that the last time they were sick or needed care, they had to wait six or more days for a doctor’s appointment (Schoen et al. 2010)” (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). Regardless of if quality and costs are in check, if patients do not have access to the care they want and need, quality and cost are
Payment policies, where funding comes from, grants, and investments have all been adjusted many times. The simplest way to summarize Canada’s health care is that it is mostly publicly funded and privately delivered to the people (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). The early 2000’s were a time of major changes to the healthcare system. New policies were being introduced that allowed for some distance from complete uniformity across the country. As explained by Hutchison et al,, “there is no single “right” model for the funding, organization, and delivery of primary health care. Different models have different strengths and weaknesses and may perform better or worse in different contexts and with different target populations” (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). This shows a greater understanding of the true statement that there is not a single box that will perfectly fit every province and territory. There are different financial needs depending on the location being looked at. Also during the early 2000’s was the First Minister’s Health Accord in 2003. This was a sixteen-billion-dollar federal investment into the reform of Canada’s health care, with a focus on drug coverages, primary care, and home care (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, …show more content…
Canada does not have the same issues as the United Kingdom, but seems to suffer from issues similar to the United States. One point of positivity is that, “Ninety-one percent of Canadians say they have a regular source of care, usually a family physician (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2009, as cited in Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). Primary care helps to prevent overcrowding in secondary care facilities such as emergency rooms and overall help as a preventative measure. However, where the people of Canada have issues with the health care is in relation to access. Statistical information shows that, “13 percent say they have difficulty obtaining access to routine or ongoing care (Canadian Institute for Health Information 2009), and 33 percent report that the last time they were sick or needed care, they had to wait six or more days for a doctor’s appointment (Schoen et al. 2010)” (Hutchison, Levesque, Strumpf, & Coyle, 2011). Regardless of if quality and costs are in check, if patients do not have access to the care they want and need, quality and cost are