ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the experiences of other countries in providing large-scale health care for reasons. The reasons are: many other countries have constructed programs that predate US programs by generations and provide variations in programs and experiences worth discovering. The chapter describes the Chinese health care economy, examines the organization of health care, and the role of the private sector, considers some government policy initiatives and measures of system performance and provides observations about the future of the Chinese health economy. Katharina Bohm classifies 30 advanced health care systems from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development according to three core system dimensions: regulation, financing, and service provision. The chapter also examines the national health system of the United Kingdom in detail and looks at Canada and contrast Canada's plan, a national health insurance system, with that of the United States, a private system. The Chinese health system has systems for health financing and health supervision.
