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A healthcare system is the Organization by which Health Care is provided.

Although some view healthcare from an Economic Perspective as being no different from other products or services, others believe it has many characteristics that encourage government intervention or regulation:

  • The provision of critical Healthcare Treatment is often regarded as a basic Human Right , regardless of whether the individual has the means to pay—some treatments cost more than a typical family's life savings.

  • Healthcare Professional s are bound by law and their oaths of service to provide lifesaving treatment.

  • Healthcare professionals are monopolists in various respects: surgery, gynecology, prescribing, etc.

  • Consumer s often lack the information or understanding to be able to choose rationally between competing healthcare providers when they need treatment, particularly in the event of the need of urgent or emergency treatment.



HEALTHCARE SYSTEMS MODELS


  • Purely ''private enterprise'' healthcare systems are comparatively rare. Where they exist, it is usually for a comparatively well-off subpopulation in a poorer country with a poorer standard of healthcare–for instance, private clinics for a small, wealthy expatriate population in an otherwise poor country. But there are countries with a majority-private healthcare system with residual public service (see Medicare , Medicaid ).


  • The other major models are ''public insurance systems'':

  • --- Social Security healthcare model, where workers and their families are insured by the State.

  • --- Publicly Funded Healthcare model, where the Resident s of the country are insured by the State.

  • --- Sickness Insurance model, where the whole population or most of the population is a member of a sickness insurance company.


In almost every country with a government health care system a parallel private system is allowed to operate. This is sometimes referred to as Two-tier Health Care . The scale, extent, and funding of these private systems is very variable.


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