Systems of Other Countries

Notes

• Canada: 86% citizen support
• China: a country that shifted to privatized care and now is trying to recover; a very painful result for the Chinese people
• Taiwan, which chose Canada as its model to reference when it created its health insurance system in the 1990’s

Comparisons

• Health Care Options at a Glance, by Yes! Magazine, a comparison of:
  • Socialized system - Great Britain
  • Single-Payer - Canada
  • Nonprofit Multi-Payer - France
  • Corporate Health Care - United States
• Canadian and U.S. Health Services - Let’s Compare the Two - PNHP 07-10-07
  • Reference: Wall St. Journal LETTERS 7-08-07

Descriptions of Multiple Countries in One Article or Web Page

• International Health Systems - PNHP¹, based on a 62-page report for which PNHP provides the link
  • Australia
  • Austria
  • Belgium
  • Canada – single-payer national health insurance
  • Cuba
  • Finland
  • Denmark – single-payer national health insurance
  • France – highly regulated, universal, multi-payer health insurance ***
  • Germany – highly regulated, universal, multi-payer health insurance ***
  • Japan
  • The Netherlands
  • New Zealand
  • Norway – single-payer
  • Spain – national health services²
  • South Africa
  • Sweden – single-payer national health insurance
  • Taiwan
  • The United Kingdom – national health services³

*** These multi-payer insurance systems are primarily funded by non-profit, government-regulated Sickness Insurance Funds (SIF’s).
For more information, go to the PNHP summary of International Health Systems.

Special Note About Single-Payer

International evidence is so strongly in favor of … single payer national health insurance, that the most recent four countries to adopt new programs have adopted single payer. These are Germany and Japan’s new long-term care programs (adopted in the 1990’s), and acute care programs in Taiwan (1996)and Thailand. – U.S. Representative John Conyers’ web site