We all have, to a greater or lesser extent, a clear idea of how the operating system of private health care and health insurance in our country and we have created a certain idea and an opinion about these health systems.
But look through this post a little further and see the conditions presented by this insurance field elsewhere in the world, with its advantages and disadvantages, their strengths and weaknesses. As it is impossible to cover in a few lines the situation of health around the planet Earth, we have chosen only some cases be significant.
Moving us begin our journey to Holland , where there is a curious situation however has enough acceptance by citizens. The entire health system is in the hands of private companies, while the government is responsible to protect, facilitate and ensure medical care to citizens of the country.
All residents in the Netherlands are required to purchase health insurance with an insurance company in the nation, although they have complete freedom to choose. The Executive is responsible for determining what is covered by the basic medical insurance (that citizens have the obligation to subscribe), although it is possible to hire extra coverage. Its cost is usually not particularly high for a country with good economic health systems around 100 euros per month, and care that provides recruitment is wide.
We're close to Britain , where we find a quite different organization. There, the National Health Service is responsible for public health , whose services are not always free and issues include how the extent of waiting lists. So, many Britons opt for private healthcare if they can afford it , and more and more companies offer such health coverage to their employees.
The system in the United States
crossed the Atlantic to move to the United States , whose health system is quite famous because it arouses controversy and debate on this side of the pond . The center of the controversy lies in the fact that there is a free universal health insurance in the North American country, only people with very low incomes can access it. Private insurance is the only option unless you want really high amounts disbursed by medical treatment needed. The good news is that both universities and companies often provide (to a greater or lesser extent) to their students and workers access to private health insurance.
North America South America we stopping in Uruguay , whose health system -in which coexist private health care and publicly has a good reputation despite its flaws, which presents as anywhere else. Each citizen contributes to the maintenance of the public health system depending on their income, and they can access medical treatment, even in cases that require more economically costly treatments; Venezuela , however, suffers from many problems, mainly because the private sector prevails and its services are too expensive for a large part of the population can easily access them.
Singapore, an example of efficiency
continue our journey by taking a plane to Asia, particularly to Singapore , a small and prosperous country that can boast of being , according to a report by the World Health Organization - the nation with the best healthcare system in the continent, ahead of others such as Japan or Hong Kong. The reason is simple to explain: high quality of care and lower costs for users. Both public health and private character, which coexist in harmony, experts enjoy an excellent level in terms of care and services.
Bad news in this regard holds the reality of other Asian countries like India , where care in rural areas is poor or directly nonexistent and government spending on public health is scarce, so that good health systems is practically only accessible to those who can afford pagársela too - not being a poor country in its majority.
Africa , unfortunately, generally also suffers from many shortcomings with regard to health care, with alarming shortage of medical professionals and with very few material resources to meet the many needs of a population that is largely very poor. Even in a country of this relatively prosperous continent, as is the case in South Africa , there is good news. Health is in private hands, but is regulated by the Law on Health Plans, and the costs thereof are high. While working on creating systems efficient and affordable public health, there is still a long way to go in that direction.
But look through this post a little further and see the conditions presented by this insurance field elsewhere in the world, with its advantages and disadvantages, their strengths and weaknesses. As it is impossible to cover in a few lines the situation of health around the planet Earth, we have chosen only some cases be significant.
Moving us begin our journey to Holland , where there is a curious situation however has enough acceptance by citizens. The entire health system is in the hands of private companies, while the government is responsible to protect, facilitate and ensure medical care to citizens of the country.
All residents in the Netherlands are required to purchase health insurance with an insurance company in the nation, although they have complete freedom to choose. The Executive is responsible for determining what is covered by the basic medical insurance (that citizens have the obligation to subscribe), although it is possible to hire extra coverage. Its cost is usually not particularly high for a country with good economic health systems around 100 euros per month, and care that provides recruitment is wide.
We're close to Britain , where we find a quite different organization. There, the National Health Service is responsible for public health , whose services are not always free and issues include how the extent of waiting lists. So, many Britons opt for private healthcare if they can afford it , and more and more companies offer such health coverage to their employees.
The system in the United States
crossed the Atlantic to move to the United States , whose health system is quite famous because it arouses controversy and debate on this side of the pond . The center of the controversy lies in the fact that there is a free universal health insurance in the North American country, only people with very low incomes can access it. Private insurance is the only option unless you want really high amounts disbursed by medical treatment needed. The good news is that both universities and companies often provide (to a greater or lesser extent) to their students and workers access to private health insurance.
North America South America we stopping in Uruguay , whose health system -in which coexist private health care and publicly has a good reputation despite its flaws, which presents as anywhere else. Each citizen contributes to the maintenance of the public health system depending on their income, and they can access medical treatment, even in cases that require more economically costly treatments; Venezuela , however, suffers from many problems, mainly because the private sector prevails and its services are too expensive for a large part of the population can easily access them.
Singapore, an example of efficiency
continue our journey by taking a plane to Asia, particularly to Singapore , a small and prosperous country that can boast of being , according to a report by the World Health Organization - the nation with the best healthcare system in the continent, ahead of others such as Japan or Hong Kong. The reason is simple to explain: high quality of care and lower costs for users. Both public health and private character, which coexist in harmony, experts enjoy an excellent level in terms of care and services.
Bad news in this regard holds the reality of other Asian countries like India , where care in rural areas is poor or directly nonexistent and government spending on public health is scarce, so that good health systems is practically only accessible to those who can afford pagársela too - not being a poor country in its majority.
Africa , unfortunately, generally also suffers from many shortcomings with regard to health care, with alarming shortage of medical professionals and with very few material resources to meet the many needs of a population that is largely very poor. Even in a country of this relatively prosperous continent, as is the case in South Africa , there is good news. Health is in private hands, but is regulated by the Law on Health Plans, and the costs thereof are high. While working on creating systems efficient and affordable public health, there is still a long way to go in that direction.