...Health Care Systems of China (Taiwan) and the United States Health Care Systems of Taiwan and the United States Health care is one of the most essential foundations for any citizenship in any country since whether it is effective or not, it definitely affects the standard of living and the life expectancy of a country. According to Johnson and Stoskopf (2009), "A health system as described by the World Health Organization (WHO) is the sum total of all the organizations, institutions, and resources whose primary purpose is to improve health," (p. 3). Therefore, to positively improve a nation, having an effective health care system is crucial. Being recognized as one of the powerful countries in the world, the United States has a great shape of health care programs; however, sometimes it is inaccessible to some of the citizens. On the contrary, as a small country, Taiwan is famous for its health care system although there are still defective parts existing in the current system. To compare the differences of health care systems in Taiwan and the United States, we can observe the three major aspects: ownership, cost, and quality. First of all, Taiwan and the United States have different types of ownership in the health care systems. Thus, Taiwan owns a single-payer system, which is run by the government, forcing everyone to join it and pay. Because of this policy, the coverage of health care is close to 99 percent (Underwood, 2009). In this country, the government-run system covers...
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...Single Payer Health Care System Purpose – The focus of this research is to identify, analyze and evaluate a type of health care system called Single Payer Health Care System by finding answers to the following questions. Health care is one of the basic necessities that a government should provide to its citizens. Single Payer Health Care systems are catered towards the well-being of its citizens that regard people’s health as their main priority. What is a single-payer health care system? Single-payer national health insurance, also known as “Medicare for all,” is a system in which a single public or quasi-public agency organizes health care financing, but the delivery of care remains largely in private hands. Under a single-payer system, all residents of a country would be covered for all medically necessary services, including doctor, hospital, preventive, long-term care, mental health, reproductive health care, dental, vision, prescription drug and medical supply costs. The program would have a single public system of administration, eliminating the present highly expensive multiple, fragmented, and duplicative system operated by different government agencies and private hospitals. The whole operation would be paid by a combination of present Medicare and Medicaid expenditures, existing state and local expenditures for health services, mandated employer contributions, and additional tax revenues equal to the amounts now spent by citizens out of pocket, savings obtained...
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...Having universal health coverage means that the country provides all their citizens with some form of health care and offers them financial protection. With the United States as an exception, every developed nation in the world has some form of universal health insurance provided to the people living in that country. Having a universal health care program typically benefits the spending cost of each person, maintains a healthy population, and keeps the majority of their citizens happy. Providing more competition for competitors helps keep health care more affordable in universal health care environments. If the citizens of a country have to pay health insurance, then that would ultimately mean that the health insurance companies would have...
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...much better than the U.S but spend a lot less money.” There were numerous innovations that impressed me from several different countries. The countries with innovations that stuck out the most were Germany, Japan, and Taiwan. Germany has a market based health system. They have universal health care that covers medical, dental, mental health and even homeopathy. Insurance companies cannot make a profit from insured customers. Therefore, the price for insurance is negotiated between the government and the Insurance provider. Like any other healthcare system there are good and bad parts to Germany’s system. Everyone is covered; the rich has an option to get private insurance. Germans pay premiums to cover insurance called “ICU funds” The over all German health system is one in which the rich pay for the poor. They have the same quality of health care but the co-pay is smaller than the U.S. They also have sickness funds, in which they negotiate with drug companies and medical doctors. The sickness funds cause for much cheaper medicine than in America. The negative side to the German healthcare system is that hospitals and doctors feel very much underpaid. Japans healthcare system includes universal coverage. One thing that caught my attention about this health system is that there are no primary physicians. I like that because sometimes when a person is having a specific problem, it is best to see that particular specialist. Nevertheless, there are probably some people that abuse...
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...does "universal health care" mean? Which countries in the film have universal health care? In the United States, prior to the passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010, insurance companies can deny coverage to people who are sick or who have "pre-existing conditions," and they can make a profit. How do these two factors impact American health care? How do the British pay for their National Health Service? What, according to the film, might Americans not like about the British system? Japanese citizens visit doctors three times as often as Americans, and have longer life spans and lower infant mortality than Americans. How do the Japanese pay for their health care system? In Germany, the rich pay for the poor, the ill are covered by the healthy, health insurance continues with or without employment, and doctors, who are private entrepreneurs, make less money than they did before reform. o Why will doctors in Germany accept less money? o Should the rich pay for the poor when it comes to health insurance? Taiwan designed its health care system in 1995, after looking at health care in 10-15 other countries. o What do you think works well in the Taiwanese system? o How is Taiwan struggling to balance the hopes of patients, the needs of doctors and the cost of treatment? Until 1994, Switzerland linked health insurance to employment; if you lost your job, you lost your insurance. But after the Swiss voted in a new system called LAMal, everyone had to buy health insurance, and insurance...
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...United States Main article: Health care reform in the United States Health care reform in the United States Healthcare reform in the US Debate over reform History Latest enacted legislation Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Senate bill - H.R. 3590) Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (H.R. 4872) preceding legislation Social Security Amendments of 1965 Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (1986) Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (1996) Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act (2003) Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act (2005) [show] More information -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This box: view· talk· edit See also: Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Maximum Out-of-Pocket Premium as Percentage of Family Income (Source: CRS) In the United States, the debate regarding healthcare reform includes questions of a right to health care, access, fairness, sustainability, quality and amounts spent by government. The mixed public-private health care system in the United States is the most expensive in the world, with health care costing more per person than in any other nation, and a greater portion of gross domestic product (GDP) is spent on it than in any other United Nations member state except...
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...Healing of America and Delivering Health Care in America Shahab Vaziri James Madison University In chapters nine through the appendix of The Healing of America by T.R. Reid, it is illustrated about the advanced endeavors, which Reid goes on, to find out about the ins and outs of foreign health care policies and how the United States can borrow ideas, even if the country is a suffering third-world country. Chapter nine is entitled out of pocked because it has the theme of people in foreign countries attempting to buy insurance in any manner that involves cash without any entitlement or responsibility after the fact. Many poor foreign nations in Africa and South Asia are heavily reliant on the out-of-pocket model that deals with paying for care with currency, and if that is not available then “potatoes or pottery or dairy products or babysitting services or whatever he can scratch up” will work (Reid, 2010 A). Although America does have insurance plans for people to buy into, the extremely poor people use the out-of-pocket model and are more likely to get sick and stay sick without insurance. The same holds true for countries with out-of-pocket polices, according to Shi and Singh; they have the “least resources and the greatest health burden” (Shi and Singh, 2015 A). This illustrates that Reid and Shi and Singh agree upon the fact that being poor and sick in a developing country is more detrimental than being sick in America without health insurance. This becomes more evident...
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...In the United States, there are currently almost 45 million people uninsured. This leaves many questioning whether the current free market health care system or a universal health care system is better for the citizens of America. Universal healthcare is where every citizen receives the same health care regardless of their race, social status, age, gender, pre-existing conditions or the money they have. A free market system creates a price driven by demand and need. To determine which system is better adapted to the United States, it is important to recognize the strengths, weaknesses and costs of each type of system. What are the pros and cons of a universal healthcare system? According to the essay, “Pros and Cons of Universal Health Care”, the main advantage of universal health care is that all people receive health care regardless of their economic...
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...Executive Summary: Our group decided to work with Walt Disney Company for operating a theme park in Taiwan. After doing some research on Taiwan local culture and environment it really helps us to know more about this “Treasure Island” which is the place that we decided to operate business. At first of course we were doing some research about our partner Walt Disney Company. As we know this huge company does have an intention to consider Taiwan as viable location to import their company product for long time ago. Taiwan’s island population concentration of 641.24 km2, which is only second to Bangladesh’s 1,101.2 km2, would cause great desire to have the Disneyland and Resorts, especially in the southern part of Taiwan which is where all the good beaches reside. For the Geographical setting of Taiwan, we found that it have both advantage and drawback for us when operating a theme park business here. Advantage is Taiwan is a small island which means the entire Taiwanese or tourist that came to Taiwan may easily come to visit our theme park, unlike Japan or United States; tourist might not easily or have no time to visit every single place in those big countries. But on the other hands, we also might not able to find an suitable huge place to held theme park in such a small island, especially these place already have plenty of theme park as well. For aware this challenge, we have a good strategy to resolve it, that is take over or work with one of the local theme park, the...
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...After watching “Sick Around the World’ and seeing how other countries health care systems operate I’ve come to the conclusion that no health insurance and health care program is perfect. Britain’s healthcare system, their waitlist is getting shorter for surgeries like hip replacements, there’s no medical bankrupt, and there’s excellent preventative medicine. They also have a general practitioner that gives people a medical home and holds down the cost for the healthcare system. In Japan, everyone has to sign up for healthcare and the average premium is $200 a month with your employer paying at least half the cost. If something happens and you lose your job you won’t lose your health insurance. In Japan, every 2 years the Japanese health ministry and physicians come up fix prices for all procedures and drugs. Everyone in Germany is provided healthcare but the rich can opt out and pay privately. German insurance companies also pay for alternative medicine like going to the spa or taking belly dancing lessons. Co pays in Germany are very cheap you only pay $15 every 15 months and pregnant women don’t have to pay anything. Not just co pays for Dr. visits but their co pays for medicine are also very cheap....
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...Full Text: COPYRIGHT 2012 Datamonitor MarketDefinition The healthcare providers sector is valued as total expenditure on healthcare in each country. This includes final consumption spending on healthcare goods and services. Goods and services in this sector include inpatient, outpatient, long-term medical care, medical goods including pharmaceuticals and supplies, and collective services such as administration requirements. Public spending (e.g. by national and local governments, social security schemes) and private spending (e.g. payments made by private-sector health insurers and individual out-of-pocket expenditures) are both included. Any currency conversions used in the creation of this report have been calculated using constant 2010 annual average exchange rates. For the purposes of this report, Asia-Pacific comprises Australia, China, India, Indonesia, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand. ResearchHighlights *The Chinese healthcare providers sector is expected to generate total revenue of $303.9 billion in 2011, representing a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 15.9% between 2007 and 2011. *The outpatient care segment is expected to be the sectors most lucrative in 2011, with total revenue of $106.4 billion, equivalent to 35% of the sector's overall value. *The performance of the sector is forecast to decelerate, with an anticipated CAGR of 11% for the five-year period 2011 - 2016, which is expected to drive the sector...
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...with the topic of healthcare systems across the world. In the film, five capitalist democratic countries are chosen for analysis. The rest of this essay will briefly describe these, scrutinize their pros and cons and identify the best among the lot. The essay finally attempts to find ‘the best’ system’s suitability to the United States economy and the possible consequences in the event of being applied. In terms of ‘cost to patient’, the United Kingdom’s healthcare system is the undisputed leader in the world. The government acts in twin roles of 1.healthcare provider and 2.patient insurer. The government gathers funds for healthcare costs beforehand through an ingenuous method of taxation. Of course, as could be expected with a “socialized medicine” model, there are the usual bureaucratic hassles. But apart from that, the UK healthcare system boasts an enviable record of health management and impressive patient outcomes. The National Health Service (NHS) is the central government agency that takes care of all aspects of catering to citizens’ health. The film then goes on to show the workings of the healthcare system of Japan. Here, the system is slightly different, in that, it is a “social insurance” system, wherein the costs are distributed between the employers, non-profit community organizations and citizens. While insurance companies and hospitals in Japan are predominantly in the private sector, they are very well regulated. In this system, monthly premiums cost only $280...
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...STZ1 Task 3 Washington Western Governor’s University A1. Description SARS is a viral disease caused by a coronavirus, a viral subgroup that causes of many instances of the common cold. Although SARS’ precise origin isn’t definitively known, all current data points to small mammals know as civets as the most plausible source of human transmission. The outbreak of SARs started in November of 2002 in the Mainland Chinese Province known as Guangdong, where the civets were viewed as a delicacy. In a misguided attempt prevent panic, the Chinese government failed to inform the World Health Organization of the initial outbreak for nearly four months. Subsequently the virus was contracted by 8098 people between November 2002 and June 2003. 774 of these cases proved fatal worldwide. (Trivedi, 2013) The 3 primary factors that enabled SARS to spread so far and so fast were a lack of early reporting by Chinese officials, lack its high virulence, and international flight paths. Early awareness of SARS was severely by attempts at secrecy within the Chinese government in an attempt to prevent panic. This secrecy delayed awareness reaching both the WHO and healthcare staff, who were unaware of SARS virulence and potency. As mentioned, the SARS outbreak originated in the Guangdong Province in China. SARS was easily spread to healthcare staff who in-turn infected their friends, family, colleagues, and other patients. Also, family members would sick patients, and then transport...
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...after William Beveridge, the daring social reformer who designed Britain's National Health Service. In this system, health care is provided and financed by the government through tax payments, just like the police force or the public library. Many, but not all, hospitals and clinics are owned by the government; some doctors are government employees, but there are also private doctors who collect their fees from the government. In Britain, you never get a doctor bill. These systems tend to have low costs per capita, because the government, as the sole payer, controls what doctors can do and what they can charge. Countries using the Beveridge plan or variations on it include its birthplace Great Britain, Spain, most of Scandinavia and New Zealand. Hong Kong still has its own Beveridge-style health care, because the populace simply refused to give it up when the Chinese took over that former British colony in 1997. Cuba represents the extreme application of the Beveridge approach; it is probably the world's purest example of total government control. ------------------------------------------------- THE BISMARCK MODEL Named for the Prussian Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who invented the welfare state as part of the unification of Germany in the 19th century. Despite its European heritage, this system of providing health care would look fairly familiar to Americans. It uses an insurance system -- the insurers are called "sickness funds" -- usually financed jointly by employers...
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...COST AND SPENDING OF HEALTH CARE: Why Universal Health Care 06/18/2012 THE COST AND SPENDING OF HEALTH CARE: Why Universal Health Care Health care cost and spending is a major concern for our society. Many governments around the world have established universal health care, which takes the burden of health care expenses off of private businesses or individuals through pooling of financial risk. There are a variety of arguments for universal health care and related health policies. Health care is an important part of health systems and therefore it often accounts for one of the largest areas of spending for both governments and individuals all over the world. For example, medical debt is now a leading cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States. A policy should be created to help lower the cost of health care. One way that would help improve health care spending is to create a universal health care to make sure everyone is covered. By creating a universal health care, it will help decrease the number of lobbyers which in turn will cut government funding to those special interest groups. There are 45 million Americans uninsured and according to CNN report 45,000 Americans die each year due to lack of affordable health care. So by creating a universal health care, we can be sure to expect to see a longer lifespan for our population as is the case in countries that have a universal health care. Since this type of health care would be regulated...
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