Organizational Systems and Quality Leadership Task 3, SAT1-0517/1217 Western Governors University

A1 and A2. United States and Germany Comparison The health care systems around the world vary significantly. The United States is superior to other countries in multiple aspects, but healthcare is not one of them. The Common Health Fund states there is mandatory health care coverage in Germany that is provided by two systems. The first system is known as the "statutory health insurance (SHI) system," this is a competitive non-profit system that provides nongovernment health funds known as "sickness funds." As of January 2016, there were 118 funds. The second system is the substitutive Private Health Insurance (PHI) that consists of affordable private insurances....