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A Comparative Assessment of Health Care Systems Between USA, UK and Australia

   

Added on  2020-03-04

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HEALTH SYSTEMS BETWEEN THE USA, UK ANDAUSTRALIA

Table of content 1.Introduction:..............................................................................................22.Discussion:.................................................................................................23.Australia.....................................................................................................24.Britain........................................................................................................35.USA............................................................................................................46.Results:......................................................................................................57.Conclusion:................................................................................................9

1.Introduction:With the advancement of technology the overall life expectancy of commonpeople significantly increased. Thus the degree of progression of a countrycan be gauged by the advancement of their health care system. In thisassignment, a comparative assessment of healthcare system is done amongAustralia, the United States of America and Britain. The key objective of thisassignment is to scrutinize the cost, accessibility, choice and quality of thehealthcare system in the contextual countries. The goal of this assignment isto gauge the efficiency of each country in managing their health caresystem. The advantages and disadvantages lie within the health care systemof Australia, the United States of America and Britain is also assessed. Thescopes of improvement are also identified here with putting stress in theAustralian system. At the beginning of the assignment, a separate analysis isdone in between the given countries. Finally, at the concluding portion, acomparative analysis is shown with the help of charts, graphs and tables.The assignment is ended by proffering advantages of each country with theother while putting stress on the Australian system. 2.Discussion:3.Australiai.Cost: The health expenditure in Australia is calculated as 140.2 billion Dollars which is 9.5 per cent of gross domestic product or GDP of the entire country. Furthermore, 70 per cent of the total costs of the healthcare system is funded by the government with the help of taxpayers’ money (Mukherjee, 2008). ii.Access: Though the health care system in Australia is good but it's expensive and due to this reason, out of pocket costs stop people receiving care (Davis et al. 2014). Actually, what happens in Australia's health care system is called co-payment process where the patients also pay which is almost 20 per cent of the total cost. However, sometimes, the patient’s share increases to such a level which is not affordable by the patient (Mukherjee, 2008).

iii.Choice: A patient in Australian set up cannot choose their own particular specialist physician. Furthermore, they also might not have a decision about when they are admitted to a health care facility for elective medical procedures. Medicare benefits also depend on a timetable of expenses known as the Medicare BenefitsSchedule, or MBS. This is particularly set by the Australian Government after a conversation with the therapeutic experts. Experts are not required to cling to the timetable of treatment (with the exception of optometry) and can charge more than the booked expense (Lancet,2014). iv.Quality: The overall quality of Australian health care system is satisfactory with few scopes of improvement in by strengthening doctor patient ratio (Mukherjee, 2008).4.Britaini.Cost: The total health care funding by UK government since 1997 to2013 has been increased significantly. The total healthcare expenses in private and public health care system in the year 2013 was £150.6 Billion compared to £54. 9 Billion in the year 1997. The total growth recorded for the health care expenditure from 1997 to 2009 was 8.1 per cent whereas the growth has been reduced to 2per cent from 2009 to 2013. The primary funding for health care has been taking place in national insurance contributions apart fromgeneral taxation and user charges. The primary advantage of the private sector in health care is the choice of consultants which NHS has adopted recently as patient's basic rights. The main disadvantage of health care is the cost of the treatment which is quite low in NHS in the UK (Anhang Price et al. 2014). ii.Access: national health care system in the UK has been the most accessible health care system in terms of cost. The funding has been increased significantly in the NHS which provides more choices for the low cost and high quality treatment. Whereas the in

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