1. Choose two national health care systems, England and Germany compare and contrast the two systems on the following variables:

• How is each system financed?

• What percentage of GDP is spent on each system?

• What is the rate of increase or decrease in annual health care spending?

• How is the system run? For example is it mostly operated as private business or government run or both? Provide examples.

• describe and compare health care utilization for each country on such metrics as hospital and prescription medication utilization

• discuss and describe health metrics such as 5-year cancer survival rates, dialysis utilization per 1000, infant mortality or life expectancy.

2. The value problem in the us health care system

• Define what is meant by the value problem in the US health care system.

• How is this manifested?

• How is this expressed in the percentage of the GDP that is allocated to health care?

• Why is this problem?

• What is disruptive innovation and how can it impact this problem?

• Provide examples of how disruptive innovation can solve this problem.

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1 Financing Heath care in England The health care in the United Kingdom is majorly financed by the public sources mainly taxation and the NICs Although there are some care that is privately financed t... View the full answer