Advocates for Evidence-Based Health Policy Speakers
Category: International Comparisons
T. R. Reid | The Healing of America (Washington, DC)
T. R. Reid, author of “The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care,” spoke to an audience at the George Washington University Hospital at an event sponsored by Policy Prescriptions and the GW Emergency Continue Reading …
Lessons from the Dutch 2.0
As we have discussed in a prior review, Dutch passed health reform in 2005 the making major changes to the insurance market in that country. Pre-reform, the Dutch system was a mix of public and private systems. The public system covered the Continue Reading …
The German Health System
The German health care system can be viewed as the prototypical Bismarck-style health system in the world. Established in 1883, the German Health Insurance Act introduced compulsory insurance for industrial workers. Over time and after multiple modifications, Germany possesses dueling Continue Reading …
The Swiss Health Care System
As healthcare reform was debated over the past two years, cross national comparisons between the United States and other developed nations (such as the Netherlands, Japan, and France) provided insight into how universal healthcare could be achieve through a multipayer Continue Reading …
Reflections from Haiti: Chaos to Camaraderie
Doctor Stanley Frencher recounts recent experiences of working in a field hospital in the earthquake-ravaged nation of Haiti. But in the end, he ponders is the health care system of Haiti all that different from his home of inner-city Detroit?
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