A Brief Note On Mixed Health Care System

This movie went around the world to different countries to show the comparisons and differences in healthcare compared to each other and the U.S. The first country that was visited was the United Kingdom. The United Kingdom spends 8.3% of their GDP on healthcare. The citizens pay nothing for premiums, all of it is paid trough taxation. Some services require co-pay, but all young people and all elderly are exempt from drug co-pays. The United Kingdom calls their healthcare system “socialized medicine”; the government provides for and pays for all healthcare. The taxes that Britons pay gets distributed up to different healthcare providers. Since the United Kingdoms’ system is taxed,

The Indian health care market has a current size of US$ 65 billion. Hospital supplies and health care equipment segment ranges between US$ 4.5-5 million. Hospitals, pharmaceuticals, nursing homes and diagnostics centres, that form a part of healthcare delivery, constitute 65 per cent of the total market.

One of the issues is the increasing cost of healthcare which is dominating the health policy in U.S. this is accompanied by an increase in spending on healthcare. According to projections by the government, the spending on medical care will continue to rise. U.S spends more money on health care than any other nation globally (Holtz, 2013). The increase in the spending is as a result of improved tools for disease diagnosis, better surgical interventions among others. This raises an issue for the policy makers on the maximum GDP percentage that a country has to spend on healthcare, and whether the nation will afford the cost that is continually growing. In contemplating any change in the health policy, policy makers should consider the cost of the healthcare and the ability of the nation to support that high cost.

Access to quality healthcare is the one of the top stories in international news today. Most countries around the world are finding different ways to control cost and delivery quality healthcare to its populations. Most countries have the difficult task of offering quality healthcare at an affordable price, without crashing the financial market within the countries. With a growing population and an elderly demographic that are living longer, this has caused a strain on healthcare resources that has a high cost on the economy that is limited. In the United States “Universal Healthcare” is a concept that was introduced to Americans since Bill Clinton has been President. Along with the United States, other countries are preparing for a

Healthcare performance is strongly dependent on the economy, and on the health systems themselves. There are many debates on the type of health care system. Insurance companies are the crucial investor that is not only demanded but also an essential priority for most societies due to some of the complex challenges in the health system, in part derived from new pressures, such as ageing populations, growing prevalence of chronic illnesses, and intensive use of expensive yet vital health technologies (Frenk, J. 2004). Government has a diverse role in the health care system. However, based on the need and preference of majorities of American societies, a system with single government control in U.S, might not be effective and qualitative in long run. The present multi payer system is more effective in health care delivery. The reform in the overall management system of government organization focusing its role on supervising and controlling the health services’ system than distributing one is necessary.

Over the past decades, policy makers have been inundated with the challenge of how to raise revenue for the health sector and how to allocate such resources in an equitable and efficient manner; with the developing countries having a major concern of sourcing and maintaining healthcare expenditure. [7]

Nation by nation, state by state, from the poor to the wealthy, Universal Health Care is an idea and public policy that is quickly becoming the norm. The United States however, remains almost exclusively the only country that does not provide Universal Health Care for its citizens. With our newly elected government attempting to dismantle the Affordable Care Act, our attempt in providing affordable health insurance for all, a public policy with high approval from both parties, this could be our golden opportunity to provide high level health coverage for all of our citizens. I will compare Kerala, formerly one of the poorest states in India, and their implementation of universal health care, with the United States.

Therefore, technology is one of the issues that must feature in health policies because technology is inseparable from modern medicine. New medical devices, drugs, and techniques have been developed as a result of the advances in the application of advanced technology in medicine (Starfield and Shi 2002). Since policy must be in line with the available resources, it must consider the role of technology in healthcare. Electronic health records, electronic prescription of drugs and overall use of informatics in healthcare are in use in health systems courtesy of health policies for technology in health. Technologies such as the Hospital Information Management System (HIMS) and Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS) have been included in the healthcare policies of the United States even in its foreign policy (Shi and Singh 2014). Both democrats and republican-oriented politicians have been supporting integration of technology in

The major problem, they have within the healthcare industry is the lack of government funding and the total expenditure on health per capita is $109, compared to the $7290 per capita in the United States. Healthcare consumes 4.9% of India’s GDP versus the 16% in the United States. The outcomes equal long lines, fewer facilities and inefficient staff. The supply of healthcare in India is on par with that in sub-Saharan African countries. According to the World Bank, 75% of all health expenditures is in the private sector, where 90% of healthcare costs are paid out-of-pocket.

The overall Indian health care market today is US$ 65 billion, of which the hospital supplies and health care equipment segment is believed to be only around US$ 4.5-5 million. Health care delivery, which includes hospitals, nursing homes and diagnostics centers, and pharmaceuticals, constitutes 65 per cent of the overall market

In 2014 the federal budget for health care was 106 billion. They have established the SUS (Unified health system) which evaluates the efficiency, safety, effectiveness and cost of different phases of diseases with different technologies. They have created a National health technology incorporation committee which is a multidisciplinary committee that has both technical area and a decision making body which makes assessments with the use of scientific data on the accuracy, safety, efficiency and effectiveness and an economic evaluation of costs and benefits in comparison with technologies already present. Since they have a mixed system the private sector is able to provide support if the public sector is unable.

Our initial one hour conversation for “Getting to know you” began at 1 pm on Sunday, February 21st and used Google hangout . As the facilitator of the conversation, I began the conversation with introductions . This time-honored tradition was extremely helpful as it allowed me to associate a face with each name attached to the previous email correspondences. Both of the Danish Institute students currently live with host families and participated in the conversation from their host family’s home. Although these students are enrolled in Danish language classes, thankfully, the students and their host families spoke English. The first student at the Danish Institute, Mina, is a junior economics major taking Health Care Economics because

As a consequence of the disparity in overall health care spending between the two countries, it should come as no surprise that the money spent on related services also shows this imbalance. Hospital spending per capita in China was $392, in comparison to $2,964 in the U.S for 2013 (The Commonwealth Fund, 2016, p.7). According to one source, financial expenditure on hospitals and associated outpatient facilities was $270 billion, and for public health agencies, it was $30.6 billion in 2011(The State Council Information Office of the People’s Republic of China, 2012), in current US dollars. In that same year, the U.S. spent $215.4 billion (25.3 percent of its total hospital expenditures) on hospital administrative costs alone (The Commonwealth Fund, 2014). These two “money out” figures are quite close, and

In India, Health care is provided by private and public provider. Private providers constitute more than 80 % of service provided (Healthcare indicator, 2010). Public system comprises Primary health center, community center (at district level), and tertiary center. Health insurance is mostly private except employee state insurance scheme, central government health scheme, defense, railway employee. Private health system includes clinics, nursing home, hospitals. It accounts for 67 % 30,000 total hospitals, 33% of 1 million beds (Healthcare indicator, 2010). So health care finance in India is mostly private as

Share of private expenditure as a percentage of total expenditure on healthcare has grown to nearly 80 per cent over the last decade and it is further expected to increase more than $40 billion by 2012. With the potential to return 30-40 percent margins and decreasing public sector investments, the hospital segment will be dominated by the private hospitals. It is estimated that nearly 75 per cent of all hospitals and 40 per cent of hospital beds in the country are in the private sector. The private sector provides 60 per cent of all outpatient care in India and as much as 40 per cent of all in-patient care.