HLTH 385 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Beveridge Report, Overconsumption, Mixed Model
23 Jul 2018
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Comparative healthcare systems and risk factors (france vs usa) - professor thomas. A right associated with labor status - a right to receive social benefits if you work. The opening of entitlement to benefits depends on the quality of the person or contributor quality assigns. System of compulsory social insurance for some or all workers. Financing through social contribution paid by employers and employees. The management of sickness insurance funds is ensured by the social partners and can be centralized (france) or regionalized (landers in germany; switzerland) The model usually has the following characteristics. Doctors are usually paid by fee-for-service (ffs) except at the hospital where they are salaried - important, because people are incentivized to work. There are multiple payers: social insurance, mutual, private supplementary insurance. The supply care is generally mixed: public hospitals and private doctors. Patients are free to choose their doctor. Multitude of providers and insurers, both public and private.
