Contents

1. Health Care Models
2. Graphics
3. Resources

Health Care Models

• Government Health Care
  • The government provides health care: doctors, nurses, technicians, hospitals, clinics, labs. 
• Government Insurance
  • The private sector provides health care paid for by government-provided health insurance.
• Government Control and Subsidies
  • The private sector provides health care and insurance under government regulation and with government subsidies.
• Libertarianism
  • Health care and insurance are left to the free market.

Graphics

Models Around the World

Models in the US

Resources

• Commonwealth Fund
  • commonwealthfund.org/
• Kaiser Family Foundation
  • kff.org
• Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • oecd.org/health/
• PBS Frontline Documentary Sick Around the World
  • pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/
  • Health Care — Five Countries
  • Health Care Systems — The Four Basic Models
  • Graphs: US Health Stats Compared to Other Countries
• TR Reid
  • The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care, 2009, 2010
• Wikipedia
  • wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_health_coverage_by_country
  • wikipedia.org/wiki/Health_systems_by_country
• World Health Organization
  • who.int/en/