Table of Contents

1. Health Care Models
   1. Government Health Care
   2. Government Insurance
   3. Government Control and Subsidies
   4. Libertarianism
2. Graphics
   1. Models Around the World
   2. Models in the US
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/