A comparative analysis of health care costs in three selected countries: The United States, the United Kingdom and Australia

Abstract

This paper purports to compare quantitatively health care delivery in three countries: the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. Since each of the societies relies on a different means of financing—the United States representing a decentralized and mixed model; the United Kingdom centralized and publicly financed, and Australia a system somewhere in-between the two—the impact of fiscal structure on health care is examined in particular. In the context of this study, the “goodness” of health care is measured on the basis of cost and availability of care.