Contrast the UK Healthcare System with US Healthcare System

Question: Evaluate the comparision and contrast the UK healthcare system with US Healthcare system? Answer: Introduction The main purpose of this paper is to compare as well as contrast the United States Healthcare system with the healthcare system of United States of America. While comparing the healthcare system of two countries, the first thing, which is determined, is Good system for healthcare. As per the World Health Organizations, health system needs to be fair and good that could cover overall health, such as high life expectancy disability as well as low infant rate of mortality (Anderson and Poullier 2004). It also focuses on better distribution of good health such as low infant rate of mortality and long expectancy of life; high overall level of responsiveness, better distribution of the responsiveness among the group of population, and better distribution of healthcare finance, in which health cost should be evenly distributed that is based over the pay ability so that each person could be protected from the illness of financial risk (Blendon, Kim and Benson 2001). The key fact that will be discussed in this paper will be the healthcare cost in the US and UK, along with health, healthcare facilities, responsiveness, financial fairness, performance and healthcare system satisfaction. Compare and contrast the UK healthcare system with US Healthcare system The World Health Organization, and the United nations agency has issued a report in the year 2000, which has ranked the 191 countries healthcare system, which was first of its kind that included huge international scope. According to the ranking, United Kingdom was given 9th ranked and America was given 17th rank in their entire performance of healthcare system (Kuzel and Devers 2006). These Outcomes was behind France that attained first rank, then Italy, Spain, Austria, and sixth position was given to Portugal. This study has also depicted that around 57% of the total population of the UK was very satisfied with the countries healthcare system (Kuzel and Devers 2006). That percentage was at lowest in comparison to United States in which only 40% of the population was very satisfied (Kuzel and Devers 2006). According to the Organization of Economic Co-operation and the Development, whose headquarters are located in france and Paris has studied about the comparative data of 30 countries such as, Poland, Australia, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Germany, Canada, Finland, Denmark, Czech Republic, France, Japan, Ireland, UK, USA, etc (Matthews 2009). As per the report of OECD comparative 2006, the complete health expenditure done in the year 2004 in UK was around 8.3% of the total Gross Domestic product (GDP) and the data explored in USA was around 15.3% of the total GDP, where else the mean of total 30 countries was around 8.9% (Matthews 2009). According to this same study reported about health expenditure made in the UK was US$ 2546 per capita and US $6102 in the USA, where else the mean of 30 countries came around US$2550 (Matthews 2009). It was noted from the results that the public spending on the healthcare is importantly among US and the UK. From the 2004 results of total health expenditure, Public spending done in UK was around 85.5% and in USA it was around 44.7% (Matthews 2009). The UK has adopted the approach of National Health Service, which implies that the healthcare facilities are mainly owned by the State, but still private ownership exist in the country (Blendon, Kim and Benson 2001). In UK the physicians work just like the solo entrepreneurs for conducting the individual practice, and they are mainly paid by the government funding that comes after deducting the taxes (Susan2002). The NHS is the highest employer in the UK, and gives employment to around 1.3 million people, and holds the budget of around $90 billion every year (Blendon, Kim and Benson 2001). This implies that although the country is developed and its GDP is also higher, the society is able to attain both primary as well as secondary healthcare services. However, there are other approaches related to the healthcare in other countries (Blendon, Leitman, Morrison and Donelan 1990). United States of America has adopted the pluralistic approach; in which most of the healthcare is in hand of private sector and it act as the capital institution. There is also certain state intervention that offers affordable healthcare services, which is mainly evident in Obamacare that was introduced in the year 2010 in order to award the more funding to government for improving healthcare system of the country (Blendon, Kim and Benson 2001). The OECD reports also includes about the life expectancy, health professionals remuneration, functions of health expenditure, and consumption of tobacco. In the year 2004, around 25% of the UK population and 17% in USA are reported to have regular tobacco consumption (Rexford and Neun2000). In the year 2003, if expectancy at the time of birth was 78.5 years in the UK and around 77.5 was in the USA. There are various factors that play integral role in these outcomes. Although US has lower tobacco consumption rate and they also spend higher on healthcare from their GDP, but UK has high birth life expectancy (Blendon, Kim and Benson 2001). These results clearly indicates that it is important for the public of America and UK and the managers in healthcare sector to understand about the spending in healthcare and delivery to this progress is quite productive and USA has more effective healthcare system (Earl, Klees and Curtis 2000). Conclusion United States is basically founded on the rights and freedom guarantee. Its noted that formal education is referred and is accepted in USA. UK not only explores the similar freedom and rights as USA, but they also cover up the rights to receive the actual access to healthcare services. Its true that UK has high involvement among the private and NHS health care, but USA has the healthcare reforms, which includes the implementation of the universal system of healthcare. Therefore, healthcare system is considered at the next side of spectrum and it explores new ways of approaching the systems and explores benefits in function delivery. Bibliography Anderson, G. and Poullier, J. 2004. 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