Secular Café: Kinds of Health-Care Systems

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Kinds of Health-Care Systems Mar 29th 2013, 00:52 Health Care Systems - Four Basic Models | Physicians for a National Health Program The Beveridge Model - after William Beveridge, designer of the UK's National Health Service. Also in Spain, New Zealand, most of Scandinavia. The Bismarck Model - after Chancellor Otto von Bismarck, who created it for late 19th cy. Germany. In present-day Germany, it involves some 240 heavily-regulated private nonprofit "sickness funds". Also in France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Japan, Switzerland, and also a bit in Latin America. The National Health Insurance Model - a Beveridge-Bismarck hybrid. Notably in Canada, but also in Taiwan, South Korea. The Out-Of-Pocket Model - the usual system in the Third World. The US has no single system, but an awkward hybrid of all four systems. The Veterans Administration - Beveridge Medicare, Medicaid - National Health Insurance Employer-Based Health Insurance - Bismarck Not covered by those systems - Out-Of-Pocket The system known as Romneycare and Obamacare is essentially the Bismarck model.

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