Health Care System in US and Germany

Health care
System in US
and Germany

Introduction
 The health care systems includes the methods for organizing,
delivering and financing health care services to the population.
 The health care system of United Nations is considered as one
of the most expensive systems as the costs of availing heath
care services is continuously increasing in the US (Dickman,
Himmelstein & Woolhandler, 2017).
 The German health care system on the other hand is
considered as one of the best health care systems of the world
and it also provide for free health care services to public.

Organization of the health
care system in US and
Germany
 Americans who are insured are covered
by both the private and the public
health care insurance
 The healthcare system of Germany is
divided into three main areas-
rehabilitation facilities, inpatient care
and outpatient care (Groene &
Hildebrandt, 2017).

 The US health care system does not
include a system that is universally
accessible.
 The German Health care system is a
self-administered one and it includes a
number of players and institutions

By whom is the health care provided in
US and Germany
 Heath in America is provided by both
private and public players and
organizations (Jones & Kantarjian,
2019).
 The German health care system is also
provided by both public and private
organization.

 The health care system of USA is
dominated by the private financing.
 The well-known private insurer of the
German health care system includes-
the Alliance Private
Krankenversicherung

Who all qualify for health care in US and
Germany?
In the US, in order to qualify under the health
coverage:
 The citizens must be living in United States,
 Must be a citizen or national of US
 They cannot be incarcerated.
In Germany, all the legal residents and
Germans are eligible for free public
healthcare that is medically necessary.

 The citizens of US are not eligible for
buying dental or health program unless
they have a Medicare coverage.
 On the other hand, citizens in Germany
are required to have private health
insurance necessarily (Herwartz&
Schley, 2018).

Funding of health care in US and
Germany
The funding of healthcare in US is done
by:
 the private health insurers,
 private health individual
 and the government
In case of the German health care,
funding is done by the statutory
contributions.

Issues being faced by the current health
care system
The 3 main issues faced by the health
care system in US includes:
 Lack of insurance coverage
 Administrative inefficiencies
 Under-performance of the primary
sector

The three main challenges faced by the
German health care system includes-
 Issues in the funding process of Health
care system of Germany,
 Ambulatory care
 Hospital management

References
 Dickman, S. L., Himmelstein, D. U., & Woolhandler, S.
(2017). Inequality and the health-care system in the
USA. The Lancet, 389(10077), 1431-1441.
 Groene, O., & Hildebrandt, H. (2017). Germany: evolution
and scaling up of the population-based integrated health
care system “healthy Kinzigtal”. In Handbook Integrated
Care (pp. 511-524). Springer, Cham.
 Herwartz, H., & Schley, K. (2018). Improving health care
service provision by adapting to regional diversity: an
efficiency analysis for the case of Germany. Health
Policy, 122(3), 293-300.
 Jones, G., & Kantarjian, H. (2019). The many roads to
universal health care in the USA. The Lancet Oncology.