{"id":720,"date":"2008-11-10T13:04:00","date_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=720"},"modified":"2008-11-10T13:04:00","modified_gmt":"2008-11-10T17:04:00","slug":"sweden-oecd-summary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=720","title":{"rendered":"Sweden &#8211; OECD Summary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Summaries of summaries of healthcare systems based on the Commonwealth Fund reports.<br \/>Author(s) of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.commonwealthfund.org\/topics\/topics_show.htm?doc_id=674975\">the originals <\/a>are: <br \/>Karsten Vrangbaek, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Reinhard Busse, Niek Klazinga, Sean Boyle, and Anders Anell <\/p>\n<p>Sweden<br \/>\u2022 The Swedish system sounds very much like the truly socialized systems that we have come to expect from right-wing fear mongers.  Everyone is covered, everything is covered, and virtually everything is funded by the government through taxes.<br \/>\u2022 There are some co-pays and the deductibles and routine dental care for those over 18 is not generally covered.<br \/>\u2022 Co-pays for visits amount to about $20 for a general practitioner and $40 for a specialist.  There is an approximately $12 per day co-pay for hospitalization and there is a deductible of about $140 annually for prescriptions.  Once you go over this amount then there is a scaled re-payment or reimbursement (the higher the expenditure, the higher percentage the state pays.)<br \/>\u2022 Out-of-pocket expenses account for approximately 14% of total health expenditure.<br \/>\u2022 Funding is through federal and local taxes.<br \/>\u2022 The federal government is mostly responsible for prescription drug costs.<br \/>\u2022 County governments are responsible largely for hospitals, mental-health care, provider reimbursement etc.<br \/>\u2022 Municipalities are responsible for skilled nursing facilities and the like, as well as home care and some other things.<br \/>\u2022 Private insurance covers approximately 25% of the population and accounts for less than 1% of total health expenditures.<br \/>\u2022 Physicians are paid largely through capitation with some fee-for-service.  Half of primary care physicians are private and half are employed or salaried.<br \/>\u2022 Hospitals are mostly county owned and the hospital-based physicians are generally salaried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summaries of summaries of healthcare systems based on the Commonwealth Fund reports.Author(s) of the originals are: Karsten Vrangbaek, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Reinhard Busse, Niek Klazinga, Sean Boyle, and Anders Anell Sweden\u2022 &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/?p=720\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sweden &#8211; OECD Summary&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sfsi_plus_gutenberg_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_show_text_before_share":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_type":"","sfsi_plus_gutenberg_icon_alignemt":"","sfsi_plus_gutenburg_max_per_row":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[131,132,60],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-720","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oecd-summaries","category-sweden","category-us-world-health-care-policy"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=720"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=720"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=720"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.cmhughesmd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=720"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}