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Essay on Health Care Delivery Systems of United States and Great Britain
The Health Care Delivery Systems of any country play very important role for the well being of its citizen. Here we will first discuss individual United States and Great Britain Health Care Delivery Systems. And then we will analyze similarities and difference.The US health care delivery system is massive. Total employment in various health delivery settings is approximately 10 million, including 798,000 professionally active doctors of medicine (MDs), about 43,500 doctors of osteopathy (DOs), close to 3 million active nurses, 168,000 dentists, 208,000 pharmacists, and more than 700,000 administrators in medical and health care settings. Approximately 296,000 physical, occupational, and speech therapists provide rehabilitation services.
The vast array of institutions includes 5,810 hospitals, 16,900 nursing homes, almost 5,720 inpatient mental health facilities, and 11,700 home health agencies and hospices. Close to 800 primary care programs include health services for migrant workers, community health centers, health services for the homeless, black lung clinics, HIV (human immunodeficiency virus) early intervention services, and integrated primary care and substance abuse treatment programs.
US health care does not consist of a network of interrelated components designed to work together coherently, which one would expect to find in a veritable system. To the contrary, it is a kaleidoscope of financing, insurance, delivery, and payment mechanisms that remain unstandardized and loosely coordinated. Each of these basic functional components—financing, insurance, delivery, and payment—represents an amalgam of public (government) and private sources. Thus, government-run programs finance and insure health care for select groups of people who meet each program’s prescribed criteria for eligibility.
To a lesser degree, government programs also engage in delivering certain health services directly to the recipients of care, such as veterans, military personnel, and the uninsured who may depend on city and county hospitals or limited services offered by public health clinics. However, the financing, insurance, payment, and delivery functions are largely in private hands.....
