Efficiency
The first measuring criteria for determining a “good” national health care system is the efficiency, which regards to “the relationship between resource inputs and the resultant outputs” (Chan, n.d., p. 34). Health care is a compulsory part in the government’s development policy, each country inputs the suitable amount of health expenditure that base on the economy and social change. Among the four developed countries, the United States has input the highest amount of spending on health care system every year while Japan has spent the least on health care. According to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2015), the expenditure on health for the United States in 2013 was $8713 per capita, which is more than double …show more content…
35) and the time access to get cared. The public health care services provide most basic health care for people with an affordable price or even free for the one who has enrolled in the public insurance system. However, the time access for patients to receive the public services has become a big problem among the developed countries, which “the phenomenon of long waiting time in the public health sector has become pervasive” (Song & Shi, 2014, p. 1002). According to the “2015 International Health Care Systems” report (2016), Canada has the longest waiting time to access to doctors when they are in need in 2013 with 41 percent of patients were able to access the same-day or next-day health care services, while 57 percent of French and 48 percent of American can access the service on the same day or next day. Also, the waiting time to access elective surgery in Canada is the longest among the three countries. In Japan, patients do not need to wait for a long period for health care services as most clinics provides the same-day appointment services and do not require booking. For the specialist care, Japanese do not need to wait for a long time to access because the government has provided a large amount of equipment and services. Table 2 has displayed the percentage of accessing to national health care system in each
The first measuring criteria for determining a “good” national health care system is the efficiency, which regards to “the relationship between resource inputs and the resultant outputs” (Chan, n.d., p. 34). Health care is a compulsory part in the government’s development policy, each country inputs the suitable amount of health expenditure that base on the economy and social change. Among the four developed countries, the United States has input the highest amount of spending on health care system every year while Japan has spent the least on health care. According to Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (2015), the expenditure on health for the United States in 2013 was $8713 per capita, which is more than double …show more content…
35) and the time access to get cared. The public health care services provide most basic health care for people with an affordable price or even free for the one who has enrolled in the public insurance system. However, the time access for patients to receive the public services has become a big problem among the developed countries, which “the phenomenon of long waiting time in the public health sector has become pervasive” (Song & Shi, 2014, p. 1002). According to the “2015 International Health Care Systems” report (2016), Canada has the longest waiting time to access to doctors when they are in need in 2013 with 41 percent of patients were able to access the same-day or next-day health care services, while 57 percent of French and 48 percent of American can access the service on the same day or next day. Also, the waiting time to access elective surgery in Canada is the longest among the three countries. In Japan, patients do not need to wait for a long period for health care services as most clinics provides the same-day appointment services and do not require booking. For the specialist care, Japanese do not need to wait for a long time to access because the government has provided a large amount of equipment and services. Table 2 has displayed the percentage of accessing to national health care system in each