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Medicare (French: assurance-maladie) is an unofficial designation used to refer to the publicly funded single-payer healthcare system of Canada. Canada's health care system consists of 13 provincial and territorial health insurance plans, which provide universal healthcare coverage to Canadian citizens, permanent residents, and depending on the province or territory, certain temporary residents.
Healthcare in Greece consists of a universal health care system provided through national health insurance, and private health care. According to the 2011 budget, the Greek healthcare system was allocated 6.1 billion euro, or 2.8% of GDP. [1] In a 2000 report by the World Health Organization, the Greek healthcare system was ranked 14th ...
Socialized medicine. Socialized medicine is a term used in the United States to describe and discuss systems of universal health care —medical and hospital care for all by means of government regulation of health care and subsidies derived from taxation. [1] Because of historically negative associations with socialism in American culture, the ...
Rwanda follows a universal health care model, which provides health insurance through the mutuelles de santé. The system is a community-based health insurance scheme, in which residents of a particular area pay premiums into a local health fund, and can draw from it when in need of medical care.
The Philippine Health Insurance Corporation ( PhilHealth) was created in 1995 to implement universal health coverage in the Philippines. It is a tax-exempt, government-owned and controlled corporation (GOCC) of the Philippines, and is attached to the Department of Health. On August 4, 1969, Republic Act 6111 or the Philippine Medical Care Act ...
National Health Insurance Law. Health care spending in Israel as a percentage of GDP. Under the National Health Insurance Law, membership in one of the four following health funds, or Kupot Holim ( Patient Funds) is compulsory for all residents of Israel: Clalit, Maccabi, Meuhedet and Leumit.
Health care, including its industry and all services, is one of the largest sectors of the German economy. Direct inpatient and outpatient care equivalent to just about a quarter of the entire 'market' – depending on the perspective. As of 2007 a total of 4.4 million people were working in the health care sector, about one in ten employees.
The National Health Service (SNS) is the system by which the State assures the right to the health protection, in the terms established by the Portuguese Constitution. It was created in 1979 and operates under the supervision of the Ministry of Health. The SNS is characterized as being national, universal, general and free.