Survey on health care shows challenges
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April 16, 2010, Friday
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FRENCH adults praise their health care system while patients in neighboring Germany do not, a survey said yesterday, in results that surveyors said more measured how expectations were managed than quality of care.
The findings highlight the challenges facing cash-strapped governments as expectations for health care - and the cost of providing it - climb inexorably due to aging populations.
Consultancy Deloitte, which questioned a minimum of 1,000 people in each country, found 55 percent of those in both France and Switzerland gave their health systems a report card grade of A or B.
That compared with just 30 percent in Britain, 21 percent in the United States and 17 percent in Germany. Canada scored a middling 43 percent of As and Bs.
The rankings bear little direct relation to the amount spent on health in each country and Dean Arnold, Deloitte's head of health care, believes public contentment is actually a matter of understanding what a system can realistically deliver.
The United States tops the spending league table at US$7,290 per capita, or the equivalent of 16 percent of GDP, while Britain doles out just US$2,992 a head, or 8.4 percent of GDP.
Switzerland, Canada, France and Germany are in between, spending US$4,417, US$3,895, US$3,601 and US$3,588 respectively, or 10 to 11 percent of GDP.
"Both France and Switzerland do a very good job of setting expectations for their patient populations and then meeting them, in terms of speed and quality of health care," Arnold said.
The findings highlight the challenges facing cash-strapped governments as expectations for health care - and the cost of providing it - climb inexorably due to aging populations.
Consultancy Deloitte, which questioned a minimum of 1,000 people in each country, found 55 percent of those in both France and Switzerland gave their health systems a report card grade of A or B.
That compared with just 30 percent in Britain, 21 percent in the United States and 17 percent in Germany. Canada scored a middling 43 percent of As and Bs.
The rankings bear little direct relation to the amount spent on health in each country and Dean Arnold, Deloitte's head of health care, believes public contentment is actually a matter of understanding what a system can realistically deliver.
The United States tops the spending league table at US$7,290 per capita, or the equivalent of 16 percent of GDP, while Britain doles out just US$2,992 a head, or 8.4 percent of GDP.
Switzerland, Canada, France and Germany are in between, spending US$4,417, US$3,895, US$3,601 and US$3,588 respectively, or 10 to 11 percent of GDP.
"Both France and Switzerland do a very good job of setting expectations for their patient populations and then meeting them, in terms of speed and quality of health care," Arnold said.
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