...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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...BCRC document: China - Healthcare Providers. Business & Company Resource Center ________________________________ Datamonitor Industry Market Research , Feb 13, 2012 pNA China - Healthcare Providers. 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...
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...Sick Around the World What world healthcare system is the most expensive? The U.S. Where does the US Healthcare system rate? 37th in the World England Compare and Contrast the English healthcare system with the US system The citizens won’t see a single medical bill, the hospitals and their employees are owned by the government. Hospitals go against each other to get funding. It’s similar in the fact their is a “family doctor.” What are the advantages of this system over the US system? No medical bills, no medical bankrupcy. Patience can choose what hospital they want to go to. Excellent preventitive medicine. What are the disadvantages of this system? They pay much higher taxes. Takes a while to get hip or heart surgery (waiting list). Japan Compare and Contrast the Japanese healthcare system with the US system Cover everyone and spend half the amount the U.S. does. 80% of hospitals are private buisnesses. There are set prices for everything in hospitals all across Japan. What are the advantages of this system over the US system? Everyone is covered and it is very cheap. There is no gate keeper, no appointment is neccessary so they can go see any specialist they want. Insurance takes care of the bill. What are the disadvantages of this system? The doctors can’t charge what they want which limits the amount of money they can make. 50% of hospitals in financial trouble. Spend too little on medicine which cause this financial trouble. Germany ...
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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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...The College of St. Scholastica Duluth, Minnesota School of Health Sciences GER/HSC 2203 U.S. Healthcare System Compare/contrast one other healthcare system of your choice with the US Healthcare System. Below are some Web sites that will help you with information about other countries. You are welcome to use other Web sites but please provide me the links. Also, if one of the below Web sites doesn’t work please let me know! You can choose one of these suggested countries or you can choose your own. This site can be used for most countries. http://www.justlanded.com/ This site can be used for Great Britain, Taiwan, Japan, Germany and Switzerland. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/countries/ This site can be used for Germany, France, U.K., Switzerland, and Netherlands. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91972152 Great Britain: http://www.nhs.uk/aboutnhs/Pages/About.aspx Australia: http://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/Home Germany: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91972152 http://www.tatsachen-ueber-deutschland.de/en/society/main-content-08/medical-care-for-everyone.html Taiwan: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89651916 Japan: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89626309 Switzerland: http://www.bag.admin.ch/index.html?lang=en http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92106731 Student Name:...
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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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...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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...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 prevention, primary care, hospitalization...
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...deals 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...
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...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 the virus back out into the community. This scenario played out repeatedly whenever a SARS carrier reached a new population, and was especially destructive in Hong Kong, which had at least two different people import the virus directly from Guangdong. (Tsang & Ho, 2003) One of the chief catalysts for the 2003 outbreak was a doctor from Guangdong Province, who contracted SARS in the...
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...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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...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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...Documentary Assignment: “Sick around the World” Great Britain * Longer life expectancy, lower mortality rate. * NHS( national health services) covers everyone * No premium, no co-pay. * Long wait time to see NHS. * Pay for healthcare on tax revenue so government owns hospitals. * No medical bills, no bankruptcy. * Britts pay higher taxes to cover healthcare. * Elective care faces difficulties. * Reduced waiting list my spending more money. * Patients can choose which hospital to go to. * Rally for governments to privatize medical plans. * Healthcare starts by going to the “gatekeeper”. * GPs are paid fixed amount based on people they have. * World leader in preventive medicine. Japan * No natural resources but 2nd richest country in world. * Covers everyone and spend half as much as united states on healthcare. * Longest healthy life expectancy. * They don’t pay through taxes, government pays for those who are too poor. * 80% of hospitals are private. * Everyone has to sign up for healthcare. * They can see any specialist they want, no appointments necessary. * Japanese patients have longer hospital stays than Americans. * Physicians and health ministry negotiate fixed price for every procedure and drug. (every 2yrs) * Cost 10 dollars to stay in room with 4 people, 90 dollars to stay in private room. * I f you lose your job, you do not lose your health insurance. * Insurance...
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...The Globalisation essay Student name: Lok Lei The Globalisation essay "Globalisation is Good’’ tells a tale of two countries that were equally poor 50 years ago - Taiwan and Kenya. Today Taiwan is 20 times richer than Kenya. I think the farmers and entrepreneurs that could develop Taiwan because it introduced a market economy and integrated into global trade. And I know the Kenyan farmers and slum dwellers that are still desperately poor, because Kenya shut its door to globalisation. The Kenyans are suffering from regulations, corruption and the lack of property rights. The unequal distribution in the world is a result of the unequal distribution of capitalism - those who have capitalism grow rich, those who don't stay poor. Globalisation can also be seen positively in a country where the economy has doubled in the past fifteen years, Vietnam. Even though the vast majority of Vietnam is still poor, this is changing due to globalization. First of all, globalisation has clearly made the workers’ lives better. At the Nike factory, workers need to be older than 18 to work at foot wear, and at least older than 16 to work at apparel. The average age of a worker there is around 24 to 25 years old. The reason why so many children had to work before was because their parents needed them to in order to help support the family, but since they are now able to make more money, this is no longer a necessity. Nike pays about $54 per month for their workers which is a high salary...
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...practice in order for the citizen to take care of themselves, family and the community: increase the number of people to approach the healthcare information, avoid disease,, (85%) + Increase the public campaign on healthcare education and engage the citizen in health education campaign. (90% engagement of household) + Build relationship with the press and media to promote healthcare education. ( meetings conference to propose strategy to improve health) Zika virus, Rubella virus Healthcare, the importance. Government’s objective son healthcare * To ensure the citizen receive the initial latest healthcare service, increase the accessibility to high quality health service, ensure metal and physical safety, reduce the disease rate, increase life quality. Cu the: + Increase the quality of public hospital, + Birthrate control + Ensure efficient medicine for all people, family, + Increase the expertise of doctors, nurses, + Increase the number of doctors, nurses in rural areas. .. (http://gfcd.org.vn/chi-tiet-tin/chien-luoc-quoc-gia-bao-ve-cham-soc-va-nang-cao-suc-khoe-nhan-dan-giai-doan-2011-2020-tam-nhin-den-nam-2030.html) * Recently, Nguyen Thi Kim Tien has good strategy to boost up the health system. Her contribution includes: reduce bribery in hospital, operating hotline, set up camera in big hospital or operating family doctor system in which doctors received comprehensive training to cure any disease. Although there are several few major happens in recent years:...
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