in the private sector of society,
The next question is: in what way is this incoming money divided between the different sectors of health care? Here I would like to confine myself to the figures on hospital care and home care. In 1995 the hospitals that we are talking about, received about 31% of the total budget for health care, the institutions for social health care received about 10%. The home care organizations that we discuss form a part of this sector, so they only receive part of this 10%.
screen 15(financing health care; per capita health care expenditures)
Now, what do we pay for our health care? The best way to look at the total costs is to see what is the per capita health expenditure in several countries. Tile figures that I use here arc from 1994. If we compare these percentages over different European countries plus the United States, Canada and Japan, we see that Switzerland and the United States spend the most on their health care, about 3500 US$ per capita. After that comes Japan, with 2600 US$, The Netherlands are among the countries with average expenditure per capita. We spend about 1900 US$, The United Kingdom spends far less, about 1200 US$, while Greece spends only about 500 US$ per person per year on health care. So you see that Japan spends more than two times the amount of money that the United Kingdom spends.
The next question is of course: do we have the kind of health care that we want for this money?
Is the quality of health care OK?
Screen 16 (introduction/good quality?)
