Residential care for the elderly
Article Abstract:
Comparison of residential care for the elderly in the UK, the US and Germany elucidates the factors that favor or work against maintaining high standards in this area of health care. The UK, with its tax-supported national health service, has the best standards. The US, with its mostly private system, is second best, while Germany's mixed public-private system is by far the worst. Superior opportunity for British and American elderly to influence health policy, and the greater incentive for officials to heed them, were the main reasons why UK and US residential care was so much better than in Germany.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0361-6878
Year: 1992
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Financing long-term care: how much public? How much private?
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The argument that private insurance is preferable to public insurance for improving the elderly's ability to pay for long-term care, put forward by Marc A. Cohen, Nanda Kumar, Thomas McGuire and Stanley S. Wallack of LifePlans Inc., has two serious flaws. The assertion that most older people are able to buy long-term care insurance at current prices depends on a willful disregard of what worthwhile policies actually cost. Moreover, a public insurance program would chiefly help older people with moderate or low incomes, not the higher-income elderly as these authors argued.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0361-6878
Year: 1992
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The United Kingdom: effective, efficient, equitable?
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The UK's National Health Service (NHS) since 1948 has provided health care to all regardless of ability to pay in a way that was equitable and has controlled costs as a percentage of gross domestic product. This success earned the centralized NHS great popularity. However, the NHS system also has faults such as being underfunded. In 1989 reforms intended to boost competition were introduced, but whether these changes will work is uncertain. Other countries should be circumspect in using NHS as a model.
Publication Name: Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law
Subject: Political science
ISSN: 0361-6878
Year: 1992
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