A Comparison of Health Care Systems in the Western World (2016) Katherine LaWall

[Baobab]

http://scholarcommons.sc.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=4369&context=etd

"The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the health care systems of the
Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and Denmark by examining each system’s
approach to cost, quality, and access of care, before looking at how their approaches
could be adapted to the U.S. system. I picked these specific countries due to their
similarity in geographic location, demographics, religious affiliations, and
population size but have different styles of health care systems (public, mixed, and
private) that are set up in varying ways. Additionally, these populations have similar
health issues to one another, such as aging-populations, and to the U.S. as well like
the top causes of death (Flintoff, 2012). However, these four western European
countries have longer life expectancies and smaller percentages (or none) of their
populations are uninsured (Mossialos et. al., 2016). Populations who face the same
difficulties, for potentially the same reasons, can count on the same or similar
responses to help. This is why it is important for the U.S. to look at how other
nations approach healthcare as well as specific health problems that affect large
portions of the population such as obesity and cancer; the way others approach
healthcare could be more efficient and helpful than the U.S. system but that would
not be known until studying the health systems of other nations.


All industrialized nations wish to balance the three shared concerns of
modern health care which are cost, quality, and access (Mossialos et. al., 2016). This
is why the search for solutions has become global in scope, as public and private
healthcare officials in the U.S. look beyond our borders to examine how other
industrialized nations provide and finance health care. Such lessons from abroad are
made possible by cross-national comparisons and analyses of the extensive data and
information available through reports, such as the OECD and Commonwealth Fund
reports on multiple countries (Mossialos et. al., 2016). In this paper I compare the
systems of the Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, Denmark, and the United States. "

[Hoyt]

1. Very good information. Thanks.

[Warren Stupidity]

2. Read em and weep.

We have the shitty healthcare system we deserve. As a people we are clearly too fucking stupid to do any better.

[Hairy Harry Potlover]

3. Sweden has the Best

Followed by Denmark and France.