ASSIGNMENT : Health Policy & Evaluation

How is the American health care system performing compared to other countries? Which countries did you compare? How does the population density compare with the United States?

SAMPLE SOLUTION

There exist many critical dimensions that can be used to evaluate the effectiveness of a country’s healthcare system. Some of the aspects that can be used to evaluate such systems include: the efficiency in terms of costs of provision of healthcare services against the benefits to those who seek such services. Another factor is accessibility which relates to equality of access without necessarily considering one’s social, ethnic as well as psychological status. It is also important to evaluate provision of healthcare services in terms of government policies in terms of proper insurance schemes (Papanicolas, Woskie & Jha, 2018). It is from these and many other factors that the American healthcare system will be compared to other countries.
The US government can be said to be an outlier in spending towards healthcare. This is especially true when compared to OECD countries such as France. Since the last financial crisis, France has maintained its spending at 8.8% of its GDP against an annual…