Für diejenigen, die nicht wissen, was das ist. Die allgemeine Gesundheitsversorgung ist ein umfassender gesundheitspolitischer Rahmen, der sicherstellen soll, dass alle Einzelpersonen und Gemeinschaften Zugang zu dem gesamten Spektrum der wesentlichen, hochwertigen Gesundheitsdienste haben, die sie benötigen – einschließlich Gesundheitsförderung, Prävention, Behandlung, Rehabilitation und Palliativpflege –, ohne in finanzielle Schwierigkeiten zu geraten. Im Kern verlagert das System die wirtschaftliche Belastung der medizinischen Versorgung vom Einzelnen auf einen kollektiven Pool, der typischerweise durch allgemeine Steuern, soziale Krankenversicherung oder eine Kombination aus beidem finanziert wird. Durch die Entkopplung der finanziellen Leistungsfähigkeit vom medizinischen Zugang zielt die allgemeine Gesundheitsversorgung darauf ab, gesundheitliche Ungleichheiten zu beseitigen, die katastrophalen Selbstbeteiligungen zu verhindern, die Familien häufig in die Armut treiben, und die Ergebnisse im öffentlichen Gesundheitswesen insgesamt zu verbessern. Die Umsetzung eines solchen Systems erfordert eine robuste Infrastruktur, einschließlich gut ausgebildeter Arbeitskräfte im Gesundheitswesen, zuverlässig verwalteter Einrichtungen und gleichberechtigten Zugang zu sicheren, erschwinglichen Medikamenten und Technologien. Obwohl verschiedene Länder unterschiedliche Strukturmodelle übernehmen – von staatlich geführten Einzahlersystemen bis hin zu stark regulierten universellen Privatversicherungen – besteht das gemeinsame Ziel letztendlich darin, die Gesundheitsversorgung als grundlegendes Menschenrecht und einen entscheidenden Eckpfeiler der sozialen und wirtschaftlichen Stabilität zu behandeln. (Absatz für Bildungszwecke von Google kopiert)
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This map is infact inaccurate, french Guinea is not a different country,
Egypt and thailand is suprising,
India is expected
Usa is a disappointment
Worth mentioning – there are various forms of ‚Universal Healthcare‘ and they can be a mix of private/company paid insurance, still require out-of-pocket expenses (although not typically large) and they do not prevent private health insurance or private, non-state-run health providers from operating.
Ireland doesn’t have universal healthcare (yet)
This map lacks so much information… It should be a gradient of colours based on how much coverage “universal healthcare” gives you
(Edit: turned into a rant, my bad)
Like, I live in Australia and we boast about our social healthcare but a shocking amount of things aren’t covered at all. Biggest ones being dental health and mental health (including behavioural health, like just getting a diagnosis for Bipolar/Autism/ADHD will cost you thousands).
Any sort of specialist healthcare still has you paying hundreds just for a 5-minute initial consultation. And then more hundreds just to collect your test results.
Waiting lists for surgeries can be so long that you’re basically forced to just pay for private healthcare anyway (unless you can somehow endure a lower quality of life for months or potentially years, and the added risk of the issue getting worse if you wait too long).
And lastly, doctors under our social healthcare system are often just really fucking terrible. Because the system pays them based on how many patients they see, so they’re motivated to rush through your consultation. They don’t do their job properly or thoroughly. You could be having symptoms for bowel cancer, and they’ll just tell you to get some paracetamol and take a day off work. So if you’re having any serious health issues, you’re better off just going to a private doctor straight away (which costs $$$).
Viva o SUS no Brasil.
South Africa is true in theory. Standard of care can vary wildly though and is generally pretty shit. So there’s some nuance
Philippines should be included, no? And the republic of Cyprus. Northern part does not have universal healthcare though.
Chinese universal healthcare is a very misleading label
The therm universal is misleading, in Bulgaria the employer is paying monthly, and if you are not employed you have to pay from the pocket.
Still the coverage is not universal and people still have to pay for a lot of things that are not covered.
Japanese healthcare doesn’t cover eye care or cancer treatments. And you still need to pay 30% of costs. So you absolutely could still see relatively high costs depending on your income.
At least in Kerala, India, healthcare is available free of charge to everyone through a well-structured network of government hospitals. The referral system typically follows this hierarchy: Primary Health Centre (PHC) → Community Health Centre (CHC) → Taluk (Tehsil) Hospital → District Hospital → Government Medical College. In addition, government employees are covered under the MEDISEP health insurance scheme, while eligible private-sector employees are covered under the Employees‘ State Insurance (ESI) scheme and receive free medical care through ESI hospitals. The government also operates specialized hospitals for services such as pediatric care or cancer treatment. Most Indian states have similar public healthcare systems in place, although the quality and extent of services vary. It may be more appropriate to think of India as being similar to the European Union, where individual states have significant responsibility for organizing and delivering healthcare.
Venezuela has universal healthcare, but the service is so shit you oftentimes need to bring your own drugs, equipment and sometimes your own bed for life or death treatment. They only provide a doctor and the hospital
India has universal healthcare, but quite chaotic and congested
In my home we do have universal Healthcare but unfortunately private Healthcare is better
Interesting: Vietnam, Laos, and North Korea are supposedly communist countries, while most countries on this map are not communist. Yet there are people in the US who think universal healthcare is „communism“.
Taiwan, a decidedly anti-communist country, has among the best universal healthcare in the world (and is one reason why I live there).
usa is a fucking 3rd world country lol
Inaccurate.
For example, Chinese and Swiss healthcare rely on insurances or out-of-the-pocket payments even for essential treatments, at least partially.
Cuba has universal health coverage,I lived there till the age of 13 you’d be lucky to make it out of the hospital alive,hospitals and healthcare there are truly garbage the hospital actually smells like death and there’s people laying all over the hallways and even the entrance,universal healthcare doesn’t always mean what people in rich countries think it means
In mexico public „healthcare“ may as well not exist because there is no medicine anywhere even in pemex
Japan does not have it. Widespread, yes, but universal, no.
Australia has a good healthcare system, it is in no way a universal healthcare system. I’d question the legitimacy of this map on that basis alone.
We India have universal healthcare too ?
The quality is debatable , some good some controversial but still.
yeah, until they put you on a 5+ year waiting list for a necessary surgery or decide that your issues are not bad enough to warrant being covered… yay australia
China has no Universal Healthcare at all.
This map is misleading, most of the 3rd world countries here have the worst service of Healthcare in public sectors which they eventually have to pay out pocket to receive a decent Healthcare that actually meets the strands
I have to disagree about Finland. I tore my calf muscle a week ago, spent 3,5 hours in „urgent care“, and was told that they don’t have time to see me and I have to drive 70 miles to another city to get it looked at. It might be universal, but it has nothing to do with healthcare.
The NHS is complete shite.
While a proponent of universal healthcare, I think this is misleading as it implies, at least in the way I’m reading it, that each of the countries in red has „the full spectrum of essential, high-quality health services .“ I live in Ecuador, which, on paper, has universal healthcare. In reality, the universal healthcare care is abysmal and anyone needing serious, high-quality care either has private health insurance or fund raises to pay for private care out of pocket. The universal healthcare system is generally regarded as low-quality and too slow to actually help people.