Universal Health Coverage
If in existence, A gold standard of care would feature health care access for all within the population, error-free health care delivery, more personalized care by doctors, a cooperative patient and health care team relationship, simple and straightforward service guidelines ,and cost effectiveness as a starting point ( C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). Following this definition of a gold standard, Most of the countries featuring a health care plan do not meet the criteria because these countries need to improve in one or more of the aforementioned categories. One example is Canada’s universal health care plan; the plan has deficiencies in the areas of cost effectiveness as it relates to access and personalized …show more content…
For example, Canada rations services by having members of the population wait before having certain medical procedures (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). Similarly, England rations health care procedures by increasing the waiting time before members of the population can have certain invasive surgeries or certain types of care (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). Australia when it comes to elderly care rations the amount beds that long-term elderly patients have ( C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015)This helps the countries keep their expenses down, especially for Australia who provides incentives based on the care of the elderly( C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). In contrast, the United States rations services based on the ability to pay (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). This is where the services are provided based on if the consumer can pay for their own costs or be covered by insurance (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, …show more content…
McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). To address the barriers to access for poorer families and the elderly, Japan has established that payments for medical services, under their national plan, be based on the amount of income a family has and that the retired elderly be covered by an employer or the national plan, In addition to Japan’s policies related to elderly health care, Australia gives monetary incentives for the long-term care of the elderly to address the payment issue for services related to elderly people( C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). Generally, most of the countries try to address the barriers to access and payment by trying to make sure people are covered under some type of plan. One further example is Germany’s coverage of unemployed workers and requirement that all people have health insurance (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin,
If in existence, A gold standard of care would feature health care access for all within the population, error-free health care delivery, more personalized care by doctors, a cooperative patient and health care team relationship, simple and straightforward service guidelines ,and cost effectiveness as a starting point ( C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). Following this definition of a gold standard, Most of the countries featuring a health care plan do not meet the criteria because these countries need to improve in one or more of the aforementioned categories. One example is Canada’s universal health care plan; the plan has deficiencies in the areas of cost effectiveness as it relates to access and personalized …show more content…
For example, Canada rations services by having members of the population wait before having certain medical procedures (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). Similarly, England rations health care procedures by increasing the waiting time before members of the population can have certain invasive surgeries or certain types of care (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). Australia when it comes to elderly care rations the amount beds that long-term elderly patients have ( C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015)This helps the countries keep their expenses down, especially for Australia who provides incentives based on the care of the elderly( C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). In contrast, the United States rations services based on the ability to pay (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). This is where the services are provided based on if the consumer can pay for their own costs or be covered by insurance (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, …show more content…
McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). To address the barriers to access for poorer families and the elderly, Japan has established that payments for medical services, under their national plan, be based on the amount of income a family has and that the retired elderly be covered by an employer or the national plan, In addition to Japan’s policies related to elderly health care, Australia gives monetary incentives for the long-term care of the elderly to address the payment issue for services related to elderly people( C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin, 2015). Generally, most of the countries try to address the barriers to access and payment by trying to make sure people are covered under some type of plan. One further example is Germany’s coverage of unemployed workers and requirement that all people have health insurance (C.P. McLaughlin & C.D. McLaughlin,