File:Health care systems.svg

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This graphic illustrates two perspectives on the health care industry. The horizontal axis delineates how health care is paid for, with farther left being paid more by the government via taxes, and farther right being mostly private contributions by consumers. The vertical axis delineates who controls how health care is delivered, towards the bottom being more government control and towards the top being more private control.

In each quadrant is listed a representative health care system that exemplifies the extremes of the two adjacent metrics. The upper right hand quadrant contains free market medicine, where doctors determine who and how to treat, and patients pay for their treatment either directly or through private insurance plans. The upper left contains single payer health insurance, in which medical services are still provided by the private sector, but the government pays for the health care costs of its citizens with taxes. In the lower left is socialized medicine, where the government controls delivery of health care, either through direct employment of health care providers or through heavy regulation, and pays for the associated costs with taxes. In the lower right is government monopoly, which no implemented health care systems currently emulate, but has been used in other industries, such as the US postal service.
Date 2007-08-17, 2008-01-24
Source Own work based on: Health care systems.png and Health care systems.png
Author Kborer, Stannered
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