Single-payer health care systems: the roles and responsibilities of the public and private sectors.
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Health care systems all over the world are experiencing some change as they look for a new balance between supply and demand. This article provides context for the U.S. health care financing debate by examining the health care systems of five other countries: Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia, China and India. The authors show that, with few exceptions, countries around the world have seen an increase in both government and private health care spending between 1998 and 2002. The authors also demonstrate that employers throughout most of the world are becoming more, rather than less, involved in the funding and delivery of health care to employees and their dependents-even among nations with so-called single-payer health systems.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Benefits quarterly
دوره 23 3 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2007