International Health Care System
The United States health care has undergone a string of transformation, in the past decade specifically, yet the U.S. has remained the barometer for many health care comparisons for various countries. Canada (the U.S. neighbor country) is regularly compared to U.S. most likely for it’s geographic intimacy however, Canada encompasses some substantial differences in their health care delivery system. The United Kingdom ranks first in almost every major category of health care, according to ranking report by The Commonwealth Fund (Davis et al., 2014). The scope of health care varies widely between all three countries; expenditures are often a large part in determining the success of a countries health care delivery …show more content…
The 30% remainder comes from their private-sector (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2013). Of the 30% private-sector funding 15% of this comes via out of pocket expenses (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2013). All provincial and territorial residents are covered by Canada’s own universal health insurance program based on their designed residency requirements (Mossialos, Elias & Wenzl, Martin, 2015). The services offered to citizen include: physician care, non-physician mental health care, vision care, dental, diagnostics, prescription drugs, ancillary, community health services, and hospital care (Mossialos, Elias & Wenzl, Martin, 2015). In the case of the United Kingdom they acquired 83.3% of their total health expenditure from their public-sector and the remaining 16.7% which amount to $267 million ($25.1 billion euros) comes from the private-sector (Lewis, 2015). In the United Kingdom health care is universal and those who are year round residents are eligible for health care however, nonresidents with a health insurance card are eligible for free health care as well (Mossialos, Elias & Wenzl, Martin, 2015). Health care is generally free at the point of service (Mossialos, Elias & Wenzl, Martin, 2015). Services include: primary care,
The United States health care has undergone a string of transformation, in the past decade specifically, yet the U.S. has remained the barometer for many health care comparisons for various countries. Canada (the U.S. neighbor country) is regularly compared to U.S. most likely for it’s geographic intimacy however, Canada encompasses some substantial differences in their health care delivery system. The United Kingdom ranks first in almost every major category of health care, according to ranking report by The Commonwealth Fund (Davis et al., 2014). The scope of health care varies widely between all three countries; expenditures are often a large part in determining the success of a countries health care delivery …show more content…
The 30% remainder comes from their private-sector (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2013). Of the 30% private-sector funding 15% of this comes via out of pocket expenses (Canadian Institute for Health Information, 2013). All provincial and territorial residents are covered by Canada’s own universal health insurance program based on their designed residency requirements (Mossialos, Elias & Wenzl, Martin, 2015). The services offered to citizen include: physician care, non-physician mental health care, vision care, dental, diagnostics, prescription drugs, ancillary, community health services, and hospital care (Mossialos, Elias & Wenzl, Martin, 2015). In the case of the United Kingdom they acquired 83.3% of their total health expenditure from their public-sector and the remaining 16.7% which amount to $267 million ($25.1 billion euros) comes from the private-sector (Lewis, 2015). In the United Kingdom health care is universal and those who are year round residents are eligible for health care however, nonresidents with a health insurance card are eligible for free health care as well (Mossialos, Elias & Wenzl, Martin, 2015). Health care is generally free at the point of service (Mossialos, Elias & Wenzl, Martin, 2015). Services include: primary care,