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Tuesday, May 15, 2012

"Sick Around the World" was a great video which talked about the different health care systems in Britain, Japan, Germany, Taiwan, and Switzerland. All of these health care systems we learned about have very different health care systems. Take the UK for example; the UK's Health Care services are completely funded by taxes which is very different than the services in the US. I thought the health care services in Japan are very interested. In Japan, people go to the doctor, use more drugs, and spend more days in hospitals compared to civilians in the United States but Japan spends about half as much money on health care per capita than the United States. Everyone in Japan buys health insurance either through a community plan or through an employer and unlike health care systems in the US, they cannot turn anyone away if they have previous health issues.


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