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  • The U.S. must decide whether or not to make this commitment

The Bismarck Model

(and what T.R. Reid thinks of it)

Rose Balentine, Carolina Cardoso, Jack Culhane and Katarina Veevers-Carter

Who is in charge?

What do you need to enroll?

Big Picture

Japan - Government

Germany - Insurers and Providers

-What do you need to be enrolled?

  • Universal Coverage
  • Choice in providers
  • But sign up and you're in

- Who's "in charge"

Moral Question

- Costs?

France-Practitioner & Government

Can't be denied

  • Should a wealthy country provide health care to everyone?
  • What happens if you do not?

The Bismarck Model

THE BISMARCK MODEL AND THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM

Same Access to the Same Care at The Same Cost

  • Named for Prussian Chancellor Otto Von Bismark (b. 1815-d.1898)
  • Countries that follow the Bismark Model puts all of their citizens under one system

  • Economic incentive to provide preventive health care
  • Health Care is the largest industry in all wealthy countries.

It consumes more of the national income than education and defense.

  • 17% of the GNP in the US ($7,000 per citizen per year)

COSTS

  • 2x as much as any other European Country
  • 1st ever welfare state in the modern world
  • Multi-payer Model
  • Non-Profit "Charity" Model
  • Health Care Providers and Payers are private
  • Expensive!
  • France- 10% GDP Germany- 11% GDP Japan- 8% GDP
  • Socialism?

Countries

DISADVANTAGES

Germany, France, Japan, Belgium, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and some parts of Latin America

ADVANTAGES

Not perfect!!

GERMANY

FRANCE

  • Great for the patient!
  • All 82 million Germans and millions of "guest workers" legal or not are covered by generous health care plans
  • WHO rated France best in the world for "Overall Health System Attainment"
  • Includes every aspect of health treatment from mental health care, all prescriptions, and trips to the spa...
  • No choice to opt out
  • Hospitals are underfunded
  • Costly for the country
  • Disadvantageous for doctors
  • If you lose your job, you keep your health care
  • "Carte Vitale" - digitized health insurance card
  • Eliminates paperwork
  • Automatic Payment
  • "World-class" quality care
  • Germany ranks at the top in all comparative health care studies
  • No one is denied coverage
  • No waiting lines
  • Covered during unemployment
  • German doctors marching the streets of Berlin

JAPAN

  • All citizens are covered for minimal fees and no waiting lists : "Individual Mandate"
  • Result: everyone takes advantage of clinics and hospitals
  • The catch: Japan spends half as much as the US
  • Insurance is compulsory
  • Insurance companies are more efficient
  • High quality of health care
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