Health Care
Go to Frontline: “Sick Around the World” -
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld
Answer these questions
GREAT BRITAIN
- Describe how the health care in Britain
- What are the strengths and weaknesses?
- What is a gate keeper?
- What is their role?
- What differences do you see in comparing the US system from Great Britain?
JAPAN
- How does Japan’s health care system work?
- Is it socialized?
- What does it mean by no gate keepers?
- How do the Japanese use their health care in comparison to the US?
o SERVICES
o SCANS
o PRICES
- What happens if you lose your job in Japan?
- What is the average premium for a Japanese family?
- What are its strengths and weaknesses?
GERMANY
- What is the Bismarck model?
- What % stay within the system?
- How is it similar to Japan?
- How does Germany pay for its health care?
- What happens if you lose your job?
- Compare the US system to Germany.
- Why would Drs be paid less in Germany?
TAIWAN
- Where is Taiwan?
- Why did they change this in the late 1980s?
- What system did they develop?
- Why didn’t they copy the US health care system?
- Describe how the system works in terms of
- Gatekeepers
- Technology
- Administrative Costs
Switzerland
- In the same year Hilary tried to tackle health care the Swiss took on insurance/ health care system
- What has happened in Switzerland since the 1990s?
- What changes were introduced?