Health Care Delivery Systems

HEALTHCARE DELIVERY SYSTEMS Name Institution Affiliation Course Date of Submission Healthcare Delivery Systems Troubling state of health care worldwide have made policy makers and health experts to seek favorable ways of reforming systems which in most accounts are in throes of unprecedented crisis. The health care services costs had become too much and many citizens go without needed care. The growing inverse relationship between health care expenses and access to necessary services of health care system spurred an increasing discontent of a nation’s health care system. Virtually all developed nations have universal access to decent health care at a much lower cost, but health care cost in different nations are linked to particular health care system organization delivery and financing. It is extremely difficult to guarantee access to and control of health care and reforms have to realize that there is no perfect system since they have flaws. The right answer can be got through asking whether there are measures that can improve conditions substantially at a reasonable time. This is because different health care systems meet different needs and set different priorities and hence in doing so have advantages and disadvantages. The challenges presently facing health care systems are not unique since systems around the world are under pressure with respect to ageing population, increased medical costs, and reliance on expensive solutions and procedures. Thus, there is a need to balance between modern health care concerns of cost, access and quality. In addressing the shared concerns, this essay will examine three health care systems that consist of private health care, The Beveridge health care system, the Bismarck Model or social insurance program, in discovering ways that can be adopted in strengthening health care systems. The private health care system is where delivery of health care services follows the model of a capitalist society. Patients directly p...