United States vs. Australian Healthcare Systems

Running Head: Healthcare System
United States vs. Australian Healthcare Systems
Essay
System04104
5/31/2019

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United States vs. Australian Healthcare system
Introduction
As United States is one of the giant economies in the world, it spends billions of
dollars every year on the healthcare system. The money it spends on its healthcare system in
the country varies from a huge difference with the other country’s expenses on the healthcare
system. The health budget of Australia is more than the Australian Health budget and this is
the major cause that USA has a great affective and impactful healthcare system in compare to
Australia.
Efficiency, Effectiveness, and Equity in the healthcare System in Australia and USA
Efficiency
The Australian healthcare system is very aware about its people health and gives more
priority to every people’s health concerns. Every citizen in Australia has their own family
doctors and their own consultant and they all are specialized in their profession. The
American health association mainly focuses on quality of care rather than healthcare practice
only. Even the insurance policy in America allows people to self-refer to any physician
(Geelhoed & de Klerk, 2012). The speciality in the healthcare system creates a huge gap
between the Australian and American healthcare system. However, despite being all the
healthcare differences it can be seen in the graph that Australia has low mortality rate per
10,000 people than USA. Australia have to deal with a large number of Indigenous people
who are living in rural areas and their health issues are the major concern for the Australia,
While USA have to deal with those poor Latin American people who are suffering from basic
resources and healthcare facilities. The cultural difference between these two countries are
also a major issues because these two countries have to spend more money on the healthcare
of the rural areas and indigenous people’s health which effect the efficiency of their
healthcare programs (Huber, Knottnerus, Green, van der Horst, Jadad, Kromhout, &
Schnabel, 2011). The Latin American people who are facing extreme healthcare issues in the

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country because of their traditional and old culture. However, the American government is
also not focusing on Latin American region and people are facing healthcare problems.
However, the Australian government mostly focuses on the rural health development and
care for Indigenous people’ health and about their basic health requirements.
The culture of Latin American people is almost matches with the Australian
indigenous people but the Australian government more focusing on the rural areas and
indigenous culture and their health development in compare to American government that
ignore the health issues of Latin American people in the country.
Source: (Huber, Knottnerus, Green, van der Horst, Jadad, Kromhout, & Schnabel,
2011)
Effectiveness
These all healthcare facilities and regulations in Australia ensure that people will get
the right healthcare services from the right healthcare professionals. The effectiveness of the
healthcare depends on the quality of care services in both the countries. The overall condition