Question

Why do we compare the U.S. health care system with Canada, the United Kingdom, and France?

Answer 1

US health care system:

The United States health care system is the most expensive in the world, but the U.S. underperforms relative to other countries on most dimensions of performance. According to the study conducted by Mirror editions the USA present at last rank in health care when compared with Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the United Kingdom during the 2010, 2007, 2006, and 2004 periods.

Comparing USA Health Systems to these three Countries:

All these 3 nations entitle almost all their citizens to health coverage. Health care is not enough; their images of solidarity, community, and equity insist that how care is obtained, not merely that it be somehow obtainable, matters greatly. Respect for human dignity demands that no one refrain from seeking medical care from fear of the consequences of doing so, and that no one suffer financial adversity as a result of having sought care. The moral foundations of universal coverage are as simple as that.

Although these nations all cover medically necessary and appropriate services, they also debate the limits of publicly defined coverage. In Canada, for example, home health care and drugs lie outside the public system. In France, dental and eye care tend to be covered by supplementary insurance. France has various degrees and types of cost sharing by patients. As medical innovation advances, discussion intensifies about how to define baskets of benefits that distinguish the responsibilities of the national community from those that individuals and families ought to bear personally. Although these deliberations steadily gain prominence and publicity, so far they proceed mainly at the margins of comprehensive systems that show little inclination to cut back covered services. The core values of these systems solidarity, community, equity, dignity remain intact and surprisingly little disturbed by rising costs and by gloomy forecasts that aging, technology, and the rest are rendering their systems unaffordable. Great Britain’s National Health Service draws mainly on general revenues; 70% of Canada’s health bill comes from national and provincial general revenues. France increasingly supports its social insurance regime with general revenues that tap a broad range of wealth. None of these approaches is plainly superior to the others; they all work and they all carry their burden of political and economic stress. In health field various programs and their implementation was more ahead in these 3 countries when compared with the USA. In these countries the population is low and technology also highly developed when compared with several countries, so due to these reasons these countries are providing good health care across the country. So due to this reasons U.S. health care system is mostly comparing with Canada, the United Kingdom, and France.