Posts Tagged ‘system’

Fifth in my series on National Healthcare System is the Swiss Healthcare System. It just went live on the Lighthouse Blog, and I’m sure you’ll find it very interesting. Especially if you are one of my Swiss readers – my analytics program tells me you are a few visiting form this lovely country
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After tackling the Australian Medicare System two month ago and the French Sécurité Sociale last month, here comes my piece on the British NHS.
I have to admit it was the most difficult one to summarize so far; it is the most integrated healthcare systems I’ve studied yet, its admin side is awfully messy, and its [...]

A MIDDLE-AGED man felt chest pains. As an executive at IBM, an information-technology firm, he had excellent health insurance, so he went straight to a specialist. His cardiologist put him through a bunch of tests, including a computerised tomography scan. A radiologist noticed something odd in his neck, so he went to a neck surgeon, [...]