Healthcare

Universal Healthcare

Healthcare Information’s System Management-HCAD 4352

Crystal M. Roque-1210243

November 24, 2013

Universal Health Care

Universal health care refers to a detailed type of health care system which allows for fiscal security and health care to all its citizens. The system itself is structured around providing a particular course of benefits to all members of a society with the end objective of improving individual access of health care services and thus enhanced outcomes regarding ailments and diseases. It is important to note that universal health care does not entail coverage for all people for everything, but it covers the decisive aspects of certain medicinal services. In addition, an individual cannot automatically be deprived of healthcare coverage as long as that individual is an inhabitant of the country that offers that universal coverage. The universal health care concept dates back to the health care system that was developed on a national level in Germany under Otto von Bismarck. Germany's early system had both employees and employers pay into a meticulous health care system, which was operated by local health bureaus ("Universal Health Care Coverage," 2013; "The world health report - Health systems financing: the path to universal coverage," 2013).

Universal health care in that preponderance of most countries has been achieved via a blended model of funding. General tax proceeds are usually the chief source of funding, being supplemented by explicit levies for services that normally would be covered by the public system. The European systems, for the most part, are funded through a fusion of public and private donations. The mass of universal health care systems are funded principally by tax revenue. There is usually a distinction made between national and municipal healthcare funding in that what is deemed field specific healthcare is provided for by a superior unit in the federal model, while on the municipal level, a...