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A 5 page paper that compares the primarily privately owned and funded healthcare delivery system that currently operates in the United States with that of the national healthcare delivery system presently practiced in the country of Norway. Discussed are the differences between the two types of systems with the focus on funding, access, administration, cost effectiveness and nursing. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
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systems with the focus on funding, access, administration, cost effectiveness and nursing. Bibliography lists 5 sources. LCCare.doc A Picture of Healthcare Delivery - The United States &
Norway Compared Written by Linda Canada 06/2000 Please I. Introduction "I will follow that system
of regimen which, according to my ability and judgment, I consider for the benefit of my patients...with purity and with holiness I will pass my life and practice my Art...into
whatever houses I enter, I will go into them for the benefit of the sick, and will abstain from every voluntary act of mischief and corruption..." (Hippocrates, 1993; http://www.walkbyfaith.com/oaths.htm).
So said Hippocrates in the year 400 BC as he made his famous oath, and so the heart and soul of the art of medicine and its practice was defined.
Over two thousand years later, however, there are many who question whether or not that oath is presently being upheld. The question of public healthcare and the means by
which it is delivered is a question that has been the center of heated debate in recent years as in years long past. Much of this debate has centered
on the benefits and the drawbacks of a nationalized health plan, and most of this debate has been held within the boundaries of the United States of America. For
in spite of all its technological advancements and scientific innovations, America is currently the only one of the worlds developed and industrialized nations that has failed to implement a national
health program that benefits its entire population (Spencer, 1997). To obtain a clear analytic picture of the differences that lie in national healthcare delivery plans and those plans that do
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