![]() Elements of all four are present in the United States. ![]() The author outlines four basic models: the Bismarck, in which both health-care providers and payers are private the Beveridge, in which “health care is provided and financed by the government, through tax payments” the National Health Insurance (NHI) model, in which the providers are private but everyone pays into a government-run insurance program and the out-of-pocket model, in which the patient pays with no insurance or government help. Washington Post correspondent and NPR commentator Reid ( The United States of Europe: The New Superpower and the End of American Supremacy, 2004, etc.) sees the health-care issue as a moral question to which all other technologically developed countries have responded well, creating affordable, effective systems. A timely survey-filled with important lessons for the United States-of how other nations have created systems that provide universal health care for their citizens. ![]()
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