Q/A

Please be sure to answer all of these questions in complete sentences. 

 

1. Pick a country that has a universal health care system. In a paragraph, summarize how the system works.  Be sure to include when the system was first introduced; how it works; how the system is financed; and what the process is for seeing a doctor. 

 

2. Compare the overall health care outcomes of this country to that of the United States. Be sure to focus on specific things such as total expenditure on health per capita, life expectancy, and infant mortality rates.  Why are life expectancy and infant mortality rates good indicators of the overall quality of a country's health care system?    

 

3. What are two positives and two negatives of your chosen country’s healthcare system?

 

4. What aspect/s of your chosen country’s health care system, if any, would you like to implement in the United States and why?