Australian Politics and Policy - Senior, 2019a

Health policy
Table 1 Health care funding by source of funds (%), 2015
Government
schemes
Compulsory
health
insurance
Voluntary
health
insurance
Out-ofpocket
Other
Total
1 Denmark 84 0 2 14 0 100
2 Sweden 84 0 1 15 1 100
3 UK 80 0 3 15 2 100
4 Norway 74 11 0 14 0 100
5 New
Zealand
71 9 5 13 3 100
6 Ireland 70 0 12 15 3 100
7 Canada 69 1 13 15 2 100
8 Australia 67 0 10 20 4 100
9 Finland 61 13 3 20 3 100
10 Iceland 52 29 0 17 2 100
11 Austria 31 45 5 18 2 100
12 USA 27 23 35 11 4 100
13 Switzerland 22 42 7 28 1 100
14 Belgium 18 59 5 18 0 100
15 Netherlands 9 71 6 12 1 100
16 Luxembourg 9 73 6 11 1 100
17 Japan 9 75 2 13 1 100
18 Germany 7 78 1 13 2 100
19 France 4 75 14 7 1 100
Source: OECD Health Statistics (http://www.oecd.org/els/health-systems/health-data.htm),
data for high income OECD countries (GDP per capita > $US $40 000 in 2017 at PPP).
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