Australian Health Care System: Financial Structure, Performance, Challenges and Recommendations

Australian Health Care System
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Financial structure of healthcare system in Australia and two other OECD countries...................4
Performance of the different OECD countries health care system..................................................6
Performance measures.....................................................................................................................7
Financial implication for Healthcare system...................................................................................7
Challenges faces by healthcare systems..........................................................................................9
Recommendations for improving the healthcare system of Australia.............................................9
References......................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
The health care system has become a challenge over the years. Every country has its
health care system according to the locality and acts independently according to the various
weakness and strengths. An efficient system retort to the needs of the population by providing
them with an organized and enhanced system that helps to exceed the expectations of the people
and to improve the health of each person in the society. The Australian healthcare system is
doing very well in the OECD list, as the retort says colorectal and breast cancer endurance is
amongst the top and has achieved 6th position for life expectancy. The report includes the details
of the Australian healthcare system along with the comparison of the other two healthcare
systems from countries listed in OECD.

Financial structure of healthcare system in Australia and two other OECD
countries
In Australia, the funding of the healthcare system is managed by all the different levels of
government administrations and private health insurers, non-government associations. Medicare
card is the government-funded facility card that supports the citizen financially to get out-of
treatment. It also finances free worldwide admittance to hospital treatment. The funding measure
reflects the difficulties of the financial structure of the Australian healthcare system. Australia
spent 10% of its GPD, which is around $170 billion the year 2017-2018. The Australian
government spends the two-third of the total health expenses around 67% and the non-
government organizations and others covered the 33% of the total expenses (Böhm, Schmid,
Götze, Landwehr, & Rothgang, 2013).
Fig1. Funding sources of Australia health care system
Source: (Wendt, 2014)
In Switzerland, the health care system is worldwide but it is managed by individual
cantons. All the administration expenses on health are financed by taxation. There are three
streams of public health care funding are provided which include the direct financing for