Question

the existence of a parallel private healthcare system within a broader public Beveridge system provides an opportunity for patients who are unhappy with the service they receive in the public system. Since higher income people are more likely to have the resources to pay for private treatment than lower income people, many favor restricting the parallel private market on equity grounds. Consider a Beveridge country that abuts another country with a large private health care market (Canada would be a great example). How effective can restrictions on a parallel private healthcare system be in promoting equity in this context? How effective can such restrictions be when outside private options are not available?

Answer 1

Public Beveridge system – Public healthcare beveridge system is a system where people goes and get their treatment. They have various problem in taking treatment in public hospital system. People have got to wait for long time as well as many time doctors are not present at their desk. Above discussed problems have to face by people in taking their treatment in public beveridge healthcare system.

Private Health care system – Private healthcare system is the system where all the people who belongs to middle class family or financially good people go and take their treatment done in private hospitals. Private healthcare system provide more facility as compared to the public healthcare system. They take care of patient and provide medicine to them time to time. As a result patient can get his recovery more faster as compared to public hospital system.

Many people favour of restriction of parallel private market. It is not good totally because the people who have money can go to the private hospital but the person who is poor he does not have proper money for going in private hospital and taking his treatment done so he will not be able to take his treatment. If we take example of Canada where this system is restricted is a good example for the restricting of private and public healthcare system.